The high-profile plan to develop a massive AI data center campus at the Bosquel Business Park suffered a critical setback in March 2026 when the London-founded "neocloud" provider Fluidstack officially withdrew from the project. The company had previously committed to constructing a 1-gigawatt AI infrastructure facility on the site; however, it has canceled its European expansion plans to concentrate resources on the United States market.
As a result, the local authority, Somme Sud-Ouest (CC2SO), has reopened the procurement process to locate an alternative operator capable of developing the 33-hectare parcel and utilizing the site's 1.4GW maximum power allocation from grid operator RTE.
Fluidstack accelerates the world’s most ambitious AI projects by removing the bottlenecks to compute. Partnering with leading AI labs, governments, and enterprises, the company deploys scaled infrastructure at speed to unlock a future of abundant intelligence.
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French national investment bank Bpifrance, UAE investment fund MGX, French AI firm Mistral AI, and Nvidia this week announced the formation of a joint venture to establish what they claim will be Europe’s largest AI campus in France.The companies said they aim to develop Europe’s first...
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While a data center on the moon may seem outlandish now, soon it could very much be a reality, that’s according to NASA and ASI, the Italian space agency. As part of the NASA Artemis Moon program, ASI has teamed up with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to study design concepts to support a facility...
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