Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Reduce the energy and water consumption of data centers and make their construction subject to authorization
Proposal put forward by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on November 6, 2026. Topic: Water and Environment. The observatory also publishes quotes from 6 other public figures on this topic.
Increase the energy efficiency of data centers, reduce their water consumption, reduce and recover their heat production, make these centers subject to a construction authorization
Original quote (French)
Augmenter l’efficacité énergétique des centres de données, réduire leur consommation d’eau, réduire et récupérer leur production de chaleur, soumettre ces centres à une autorisation de constructionSource: melenchon2027.fr
Other candidates on this topic
- Bruno Retailleau: Systematize waste heat recovery from data centers above a threshold
- Dominique de Villepin: Impose an algorithmic eco-design criterion
- Emmanuel Maurel: Prioritize Less Energy-Intensive AI Models
- François Ruffin: Require every data center project to be declared in a single ICPE application
- Marine Tondelier: Identifying drinking water and soil artificialization issues linked to data centers
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Using Data Center Heat for District Heating
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