Billionaire Masayoshi Son has a plan to use hundreds of billions of dollars from Japan to build Trump-branded industrial parks on federal land across the U.S., according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal . The plan is to manufacture high-tech hardware, and while the details are reportedly still being hammered out, it all sounds pretty wild. The Journal’s description of the early plans: “…ambitious to the point of science fiction.”

Internally at Softbank, where Son is CEO, the project was dubbed Project Crystal Land and has been in the works for about six months, according to the Journal. Early versions of the idea imagined a new $1 trillion city in the Arizona desert outside of Phoenix that was pitched to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as a competitor to China’s Shenzhen—t

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