France’s Energy Advantage Is Its AI Edge, if It Keeps It

France’s energy advantage is its AI edge, if it keeps it

France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants building data centres on French soil? When the head of Europe’s biggest AI lab arrived at last month’s G7 working lunch on artificial […] This story continues at The Next Web

France’s edge in the AI race is cheap energy — if American big tech doesn’t plug in first

French tech leaders and politicians don’t want the country’s strategic supply of electricity to end up lining the pockets of American AI giants.