The Pau data center is a public "proximity" data center under construction near the Centre Technique Municipal in Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques of southwestern France. Owned by the Communauté d'Agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées and operated under concession by Axione through its La Fibre Paloise vehicle, it is designed to host administrative data, backups, supervision tools, municipal digital services, video-protection, and IoT platforms for local public bodies and regional partners. Built to Tier III standards with free cooling, hot-aisle containment, high-efficiency UPS systems, low-water-use closed-loop cooling, and ANSSI-aligned security, the facility replaces an aging server room and is intended to keep sensitive data stored and controlled locally.
The Communauté d'Agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées (CAPBP) is a public inter-municipal cooperation body in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of southwestern France, bringing together 31 communes in and around the city of Pau. As a French agglomeration community, it delivers pooled public services across its member communes and has been active in territorial digital development for more than twenty years, having helped establish some of Europe's earliest public fiber-optic networks for local residents and businesses. Its broadband initiatives ultimately brought fiber coverage to the entire core agglomeration, forming the foundation of its longstanding public digital-infrastructure strategy.
July 07, 2026 France
The French city of Pau is building a €3 million ($3.4 million), 1MW data center to support local businesses and government agencies. Funded by the Pau Béarn Pyrénées Agglomeration (CAPBP), which comprises 31 communes in the Pau region, the facility will be operated by French data center company...
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July 01, 2026 France
A planned data center in Le Bourget, France, could be blocked by the commune’s newly elected mayor. Mehdi Nezzar, who took office earlier this year, is calling for the cancellation of Segro’s 75MW project at a former H&M warehouse in the northeastern Paris suburb. A building permit was...
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June 15, 2026 France
Data4 has confirmed plans for a €5 billion ($5.8 billion), 700MW data center campus in Escaudain, set to be the company's largest facility to date. The campus will be developed on the site of the former Usinor steelworks in the Hauts-de-France region. “We are delighted to bring our project to...
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December 02, 2025 France
European chip manufacturer STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with French solar developer TSE Energy. The PPA will see TSE supply ST with power generated by three solar parks in France, with a combined capacity of 43MW. The contract will commence in 2027 and...
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November 29, 2025 France
Thésée Datacenter is adding 50MW of data center capacity to its campus in Aurbgenville, outside Paris, France. The firm will invest an initial €60 million ($69.6m) into the project as part of a total investment expected to reach €500m ($579.9m).It intends to expand the site with data center...
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