Masayoshi Son lands in Hawaii the same week Stargate UAE goes live

Masayoshi Son flew from Tokyo Haneda to Oahu on May 22, 2026, arriving at coordinates 21.325, -157.929 after a six-hour-and-41-minute Gulfstream G650ER crossing. The destination, roughly 20 miles northwest of Honolulu, sits within reach of his Woodside, California estate but is a notable detour for a man who has spent most of 2025 shuttling between Tokyo and Silicon Valley.

Son arrives the same week SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and G42 officially launch Stargate UAE — the first 1-gigawatt AI cluster outside the U.S., per a SoftBank press release on May 22. The Abu Dhabi campus, part of a broader 5-gigawatt UAE-U.S. AI infrastructure zone, represents the global extension of Son's $500 billion Stargate project and his deepening pivot into AI infrastructure.

Hawaii is a known decompression stop for Son, who has described his investment style as requiring bursts of intense focus followed by recovery. The flight follows a pattern: recent trips included a brief hop near Tokyo on May 21 and a longer May 5 leg from Rome via Iceland. With a $64.6 billion OpenAI stake and a net worth that swung from negative in 2023 to $49-$71 billion by 2025, even the chairman of Stargate needs a place to check the surf report.