France accelerates a nationwide AI campus network with public cloud partners

January 22, 2026 · Reuters

France introduced a multi-city plan linking campuses, fiber, and regional grids.

The campus network is meant to avoid concentration risk in one geography.

Each site will carry explicit criteria on fiber, cooling, and local grid capacity.

Public cloud participation is aimed at attracting enterprise AI workloads faster.

This model treats AI growth as a nationwide infrastructure project rather than isolated private expansion.

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