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A few days ahead of theArtificial Intelligence Action Summitin Paris , the French administration has harbinger the first of several expected fiscal first step colligate to AI . France ’s Emmanuel Macron and the United Arab Emirates ’ Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan have signed an arrangement for a significant investment to build a massive data centre dedicated to artificial intelligence in France .
harmonise to areport from the AFP , France and the UAE could spend “ € 30 to € 50 billion ” ( $ 31 to $ 52 billion at current exchange rates ) to build an AI campus . Most of the investment funds would go toward a information center with a content of up to 1GW .
On Thursday aurora , France ’s digital and AI minister Clara Chappaz say France has identified 35 location that could be used to progress out new data centers with fast - track administrative approvals . The UAE ’s data center investment will likely take advantage of that framework .
Around 65%of France ’s electricity product come from nuclear big businessman industrial plant . The country also gets around 25 % of its electrical energy from renewable sources . As big tech company clamber to reduce their C footprint , France is using the AI Action Summit as an chance to pull in extraneous investment , especially for those power - hungry data centers .
A consortium of French and Emirati investor will back the data gist project in France . MGX , the Emirati investment house dedicated to stilted word , will contribute .
MGX was also heel as one of the initial investors inStargate , the large - scale AI investment project top by SoftBank and OpenAI . Commenting on Stargate and Chinese AI startup DeepSeek ’s late breakthrough , Chappaz sounded hopeful about France ’s and Europe ’s future panorama .
“ Just the order of magnitude and the scale between these two promulgation show that this is just the source , ” she said at a tech meetup organized by Balderton and Photoroom on Thursday eve . “ Because this technology is our opportunity to entrance up , ” she add together .
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On Monday and Tuesday , heads of state will clump to Paris to meet planetary tech leaders . They ’ll likely declare more investment deals and a joint statement . The diplomatical agreement could potentially focus on the environmental impact of artificial intelligence .
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance , China ’s Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing , European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen , and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz are all expected to number to the Grand Palais in Paris for the summit .
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