Foxconn finally revealed the buyer for its Lordstown, Ohio facility: SoftBank. The facility, which was designed for electric vehicle manufacturing, will have a new role building data center equipment for Stargate, according to Reuters. The Stargate project is a partnership among OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.

Foxconn said on Aug. 18 it plans to manufacture data center equipment with Japan's SoftBank at the Taiwanese firm's former electric vehicle factory in Ohio, part of the Stargate project to advance U.S.

Earlier this week, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu confirmed that SoftBank has acquired its Ohio plant to build new AI servers in the US. The transaction was