# SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library before federal data center deal

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- The Verge, 2026-08-06 14:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/policy/976138/softbank-trump-library-data-center-ohio

> SoftBank gave $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January. Only months later, the Japanese company announced a plan to lease federal land for a sprawling data center in Ohio. The timing was disclosed in response to a June letter from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal and Representative Melanie. The correspondence brought the donation and the subsequent federal land arrangement into the same public discussion.