French President Emmanuel Macron was beaming with joy during a press conference with Microsoft president Brad Smith held on the sidelines of a special investment summit in Paris earlier in May.
The US software giant had just announced additional investments of €4 billion ($4.3 billion) in data centers and the artificial intelligence (AI) sector in France by 2027.
“[Microsoft’s new] data centre will be one of Europe’s biggest and help us be one of the data storage and AI leaders,” Macron claimed.
Last summer, France published a national AI strategy with €500 million to be invested in the creation of AI clusters by 2030. A few months…
