October 01, 2026 France
Altarea Group subsidiary Nation Data Center has broken ground on a mixed-use development in Vélizy-Villacoublay, north-central France, including a data center with 7MW of IT capacity. The facility will support AI and high-performance computing workloads, with a target PUE of 1.2. It will use...
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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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October 23, 2025 France
Mastercard is planning to develop three new data centers in France with plans to invest around €250 million ($289.81m) in the data centers, which will build on around a dozen data centers already operating in Europe.In a company announcement written by Kelly Devine, Mastercard's president of...
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October 15, 2025 France
Cellnex, through its wholly owned subsidiary Cellnex France, this week announced it has entered into a put option agreement with Vauban Infra Fibre (VIF) to sell 99.99 percent of Towerlink France, the entity responsible for the group’s main data center operations in France.“We remain committed to...
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July 12, 2025 France
Vesper Next Generation Infrastructure Fund I SCSp announced this week that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100 percent of the share capital of Thésée from state-owned French investment group Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations/Banque des Territoires and Groupe IDEC Invest, the real...
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June 20, 2025 France
European satellite operator Eutelsat this week announced a €1.35 billion ($1.55bn) contemplated capital raise, anchored by key shareholders, to “secure the execution of [its] long-term strategic vision,” to fuel its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ambitions, led by the French government.“This capital...
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June 18, 2025 France
French telco Bouygues Telecom has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy-from-waste (EfW) firm Suez in France which will see Suez supply 53GWh of power per year from its EfW portfolio. Over the term of the agreement, the telco aims to source up to 800GWh of power through...
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June 10, 2025 France
Data center developer CloudHQ has launched a new campus in Paris, France. The company aims to build two data center buildings, each comprising 53,000 sqm (570,000 sqft) and 24 data halls, within Essonne’s Leonardo da Vinci business park. The facility’s waste heat will be connected to...
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May 23, 2025 Paris
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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January 30, 2025 France
European semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics has signed a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Total Energies. The PPA will power STMicroelectronics sites in France and will be supplied from two recently constructed wind and solar farms with a combined capacity of 75MW."We are delighted...
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January 08, 2025 France
Nokia has completed the sale of its subsea cable unit, Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), to the French State and said the transaction has netted it around €350 million ($363m). Nokia noted that it retains a 20 percent shareholding in ASN, with board representation, to "ensure a smooth transition...
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November 21, 2024 France
France Télévisions, Radio France, France Médias Monde, and TV5 Monde have partnered with Thésée Datacenter to assist with their transition to cloud solutions.The migration aims to make the media companies more resilient against the risks of cyber attacks, reduce the environmental impact of...
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November 04, 2024 France
French energy equipment giant Schneider Electric, a significant supplier of the data center industry has removed CEO Peter Herweck and has appointed long-time employee Olivier Blum as the new chief executive, effective immediately. Schneider said that its Board of Directors "decided to remove...
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October 11, 2024 France
Atos-owned Eviden has partnered with IQM to install a quantum computer in France which will be housed at Eviden’s flagship factory in Angers, with both physical and remote access to be made available to users, the latter via an Eviden private cloud. IQM Spark is a 5-qubit superconducting quantum...
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August 28, 2024 France
Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses. Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and cloud...
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July 09, 2024 France
Swedish satellite communications firm Ovzon has launched services from its debut geostationary (GEO) broadband satellite. “Ovzon’s proprietary satellite Ovzon 3 has reached its orbital position in the geostationary arc,” the company said recently. “After a few weeks of final in-orbit testing, the...
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