{
  "id": 17027,
  "url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/976138/softbank-trump-library-data-center-ohio",
  "title": "SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal",
  "summary": "SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it's leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data center in Ohio. The Japanese company revealed the timing in response to a June letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Melanie […]",
  "authors": "Emma Roth",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us,japan",
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T14:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "verge-ai",
  "source_name": "The Verge",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theverge.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17027",
  "original_url": "https://www.theverge.com/policy/976138/softbank-trump-library-data-center-ohio",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}