{"id":1024055,"date":"2026-07-28T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024055"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T02:38:37","slug":"orange-morrison-plan-french-data-centre-venture-to-meet-ai-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/28\/orange-morrison-plan-french-data-centre-venture-to-meet-ai-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange, Morrison plan French data centre venture to meet AI demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French telecoms operator Orange and infrastructure investor Morrison plan to create a data centre joint venture in France to \u200cexpand capacity \u2060and \u2060meet rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud services, the companies said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The 50-50 venture would target 400 \u200bmegawatts of capacity, nearly \u206010 times \u200cOrange&#8217;s current \u200blevel, \u200band would be \u2060supported by a \u20ac3 billion ($3.41 billion) investment \u200bprogramme combining Orange assets, Morrison \u200bfunding and debt. <\/p>\n<p>Orange would contribute five data centres in France, while Morrison would provide \u200cequity funding to support the platform&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French telecoms operator Orange and infrastructure investor Morrison plan to create a data centre joint venture in France to \u200cexpand capacity \u2060and \u2060meet rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud services, the companies said on Monday. The 50-50 venture would target 400 \u200bmegawatts of capacity, nearly \u206010 times \u200cOrange&#8217;s current \u200blevel, \u200band would be \u2060supported by a \u20ac3 billion ($3.41 billion) investment \u200bprogramme combining Orange assets, Morrison \u200bfunding and debt. Orange would contribute five data centres in France, while Morrison would provide \u200cequity funding to support the platform&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024056,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024055\/revisions\/1024056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}