In Brief Posted: 8:58 PM PDT · April 29, 2026 Image Credits: Kiyoshi Ota / Bloomberg / Getty Images Tech companies are racing to build out infrastructure that can further drive the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank reportedly plans to create a new company designed to automate the creation of that infrastructure. SoftBank is putting together a new business called Roze AI, the Financial Times originally reported . Roze would seek to make data center construction in the U.S. more “efficient,” the Wall Street Journal reports . It would do that by — among other things — deploying autonomous robots to help build server farms. In an interesting twist, the conglomerate is already prepping Roze for an IPO, and some executives want it to happen by the second half of 2026, the Journal writes. The desired valuation might be $100 billion, FT reported. TechCrunch reached out to SoftBank for more information.…