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Macron announces €93bn of Choose France investments led by AI data centres

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Source: AFP via Courthouse News

President Macron announced €93 billion of investment commitments at the Choose France summit including €45 billion from SoftBank for data centres in northern France by 2031, a $10 billion Brookfield data centre at Escaudain and a $5 billion Ardian and Verne data centre near Paris.

Why it matters

France’s largest single data-centre pledge came from SoftBank, €45 billion for sites in northern France by 2031.

When
1 Jun 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0210
Who
Government of France, SoftBank, Brookfield; Emmanuel Macron, Masayoshi Son

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from AFP via Courthouse News. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2026-0210: “Macron announces €93bn of Choose France investments led by AI data centres.” wheresthe.ai, 1 Jun 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/fr-choose-france-93bn-data-centres-2026-06/ (source: AFP via Courthouse News).

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