https://aidatacenterindex.com/countries/france/feed/ Chronological feed for France using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility. https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/softbank-france-ai-data-center-capacity-program.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/softbank-france-ai-data-center-capacity-program.html Hauts-de-France and additional France sites, France | Planned | 5.0 GW — SoftBank Group announced a national France AI data center capacity program on May 30, 2026. The primary release says SoftBank committed to develop and operate up to 5 GW of AI data center capacity in France, representing investment of up to https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/mgx-mistral-ai-campus-paris-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/mgx-mistral-ai-campus-paris-region.html Seine-et-Marne / Paris region, France | Planned | 1.4 GW — Campus AI is the Bpifrance, MGX, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA joint venture announced at the May 2025 Choose France summit to establish what the partners describe as Europe's largest AI campus in France. The primary announcement places the campus https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/mistral-ai-cluster-france.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/mistral-ai-cluster-france.html Bruyeres-le-Chatel, Bruyeres-le-Chatel, Essonne, France | Operational | 40 MW — Mistral's current infrastructure story is Mistral Compute and the Eclairion/Fluidstack Bruyeres-le-Chatel cluster path, not a verified dedicated OVHcloud Paris cluster. Mistral's own Compute page describes a frontier AI cloud with GB200 pro https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/equinix-pa12x-paris-france.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/equinix-pa12x-paris-france.html Argenteuil, Argenteuil / Paris, France | Planned | 14 MW — Equinix PA12x is a planned Paris xScale data-center facility in Argenteuil. Equinix's expansion timeline lists New xScale Data Center Paris PA12x, France, for Q2 2026. DataCenterMap lists the facility as under construction at 18-82 Rue de M https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/edf-opcore-montereau-ai-data-center-france.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/edf-opcore-montereau-ai-data-center-france.html Montereau-Vallee-de-la-Seine, Ile-de-France, France | Planned | 700 MW — EDF and OpCore entered exclusive negotiations for a high-power data center at the former Montereau-Vallee-de-la-Seine thermal power plant southeast of Paris. Data Center Dynamics reports the project as a possible EUR 4 billion hyperscale da https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/scaleway-aion-ai-gigafactory-france.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/scaleway-aion-ai-gigafactory-france.html France, France | Planned | 200 MW — AION is Scaleway and iliad Group's French AI Gigafactory bid under the European AI Gigafactories / EuroHPC framework. Scaleway's primary announcement says AION would deploy several next-generation GPU clusters equivalent to more than 288,00 https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/openaifrance-sovereign-ai-data-center.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/openaifrance-sovereign-ai-data-center.html Paris, Paris Region, France | Announced — OpenAI has a Paris office and a meaningful French ecosystem presence, but ADCI could not verify the prior public claim of a 100 MW OpenAI data center in France. OpenAI's November 2024 France announcement supports a Paris office, local partn https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/scaleway-ai-data-center-france.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/scaleway-ai-data-center-france.html Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone, DC5 / PAR2, Paris region, France | Operational — Scaleway Nabu, also described as Nabuchodonosor, is a GPU supercomputer/cluster record located at DC5/PAR2, not a separate 40 MW Vitry-sur-Seine AI data-center facility. Scaleway's October 5, 2023 release says Nabu is an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/scaleway-dc5-par2-ai-hub-france.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/scaleway-dc5-par2-ai-hub-france.html Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone / Paris region, France | Operational | 16.2 MW — DC5 is Scaleway / OpCore's PAR2 data center in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumone, northwest of Paris. Scaleway describes DC5/PAR2 as powered by renewable wind and hydro energy with GO certification, free and adiabatic cooling, and a PUE of 1.16. Scaleway https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-france-central-paris.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-france-central-paris.html France Central / Paris cloud region, France | Operational — Microsoft Azure France Central is a cloud-region record rather than a single verified data-center facility. Microsoft Learn lists France Central with physical-location label Paris, geography France, programmatic name `francecentral`, Availa https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-paris-europe-west-3-france.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-paris-europe-west-3-france.html Paris area / France cloud region, France | Operational — AWS EU (Paris), programmatic region `eu-west-3`, is a cloud-region record rather than a single verified data-center facility. AWS documentation records the Europe (Paris) Region launch on December 18, 2017, and AWS launch material described