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France AI Data Center Feed

Chronological feed for France using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility.

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Equinix PA12x Paris (France)
Argenteuil, Paris, France
2026
Planned14 MW

Equinix PA12x is a new xScale™ (hyperscale) data center located in Argenteuil, Paris North, France. Scheduled to open in Q2 2026, the 14.4-megawatt (MW) facility is purpose-built to house large-scale cloud and AI workloads for the world's l

MGX/Mistral AI Campus (Paris Region)
Paris, Île-de-France, France
2025
Announced1.4 GW

MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA announced a landmark joint venture at France's Choose France investment summit in 2025 to develop Europe's largest AI campus near Paris, with a planned capacity of 1.4 gigawatts (1,400 MW) — a facility

OpenAI — European AI Infrastructure (France)
Paris, Île-de-France, France
2025
Planned100 MW

OpenAI announced plans to establish European AI infrastructure presence in France in 2025, including data center capacity in the EU to serve European enterprise customers who require data residency within the EU. The Paris office and associ

Mistral AI — Training Cluster (OVHcloud, France)
Paris, Île-de-France, France
2023
Operational40 MW

Mistral AI, France's leading AI startup and a major player in the European open-source model ecosystem, trains its models primarily on GPU clusters hosted through OVHcloud (France's largest cloud provider) and other EU-based infrastructure.

Scaleway — H100 AI Cloud Data Center (France)
Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris region, France
2023
Operational40 MW

Scaleway, the cloud computing arm of French telecom group Iliad, operates one of Europe's leading GPU cloud platforms, specializing in NVIDIA H100-powered AI compute clusters in its Paris-region data centers. Scaleway is positioned as a Eur

Microsoft Azure — France Central (Paris)
Paris, Île-de-France, France
2018
Operational250 MW

Microsoft's Azure France Central region, launched in 2018, is one of Microsoft's key European sovereign cloud deployments and houses the primary zone for French government and defense workloads under the "Cloud de Confiance" initiative. The

Amazon Web Services — Paris Region (EU West 3)
Paris, Île-de-France, France
2017
Operational300 MW

AWS's EU West 3 region (Paris) launched in December 2017 as Amazon's first French cloud region. Comprising three Availability Zones spread across the greater Paris area, the region serves French enterprises, government customers, and AI wor

Scaleway — AION 'AI Gigafactory'
Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Île-de-France, France
Planned200 MW

The AION project, announced by Scaleway and the Iliad Group in June 2025, is a 200 MW AI compute campus under development at Montereau-Fault-Yonne, southeast of Paris on the confluence of the Seine and Yonne rivers. The site occupies the gr

Scaleway — DC5 (PAR2) AI Hub
Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, Île-de-France, France
Operational20 MW

Scaleway's DC5 (PAR2) is a flagship AI and high-performance computing (HPC) facility located in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, northwest of Paris. It is one of Europe's most significant sovereign AI compute hubs — purpose-built for ultra-high-density