# SoftBank Group Shares Fall as Much as 11% After $7.1 Billion Loss By John Kim Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/53443 Published: 2026-11-11T00:56:36.000Z Updated: 2026-11-11T00:56:36.000Z Section: Business > The loss included a $3.7 billion write-down tied to U.S. data center projects and was the group’s first net loss in nearly two years. SoftBank Group shares fell as much as 11% in Tokyo trading after the Japanese investment company posted its first net loss in nearly two years, driven by data center write-downs and lower AI valuations. The shares reached 3,465 yen. SoftBank posted a net loss of 1.12 trillion yen, about $7.1 billion, for its fiscal second quarter. The loss included a $3.7 billion write-down tied to U.S. data center projects and lower valuations for AI-related assets. The company also wrote down advance payments for power equipment intended for an eight-gigawatt project in Ohio and other U.S. data center projects. Changes to the projects made those payments unrecoverable. The loss comes amid [earlier concerns about financing SoftBank’s large AI investments](). ## Links in this article - [earlier concerns about financing SoftBank’s large AI investments](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/38248)