France’s data centre ambitions bump up against rural fears
France’s ambition to compete in the global rush to build artificial intelligence data centres is dividing a small village outside Paris, where a massive planned facility stokes both hope for an economic dividend and fears of disruption.
Lying between the capital and the ancient royal palace at Fontainebleau, Fouju is a community of just 650 people.
But it is set to host a 50-billion-euro ($58 billion) “AI Campus” project, announced to great fanfare at a summit of government and tech leaders in the French capital early last year.
