François Ruffin: Cap data centers' electricity consumption and require heat recovery
Proposal put forward by François Ruffin on September 9, 2026. Topic: Grid Connection and Power Consumption. The observatory also publishes quotes from 6 other public figures on this topic.
The deployment of data centers will be much more regulated, so that heat is recovered to heat buildings in the territories concerned, and an electricity consumption cap will be defined democratically, so that their development does not monopolize all electricity production.
Original quote (French)
Le déploiement des centres de données sera beaucoup plus encadré, afin que la chaleur soit récupérée pour chauffer les bâtiments des territoires concernés, et un plafond de consommation d’électricité sera défini démocratiquement, afin que leur développement n’accapare pas toute la production d’électricité.Source: nouspresident.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Bruno Retailleau: Reducing the electricity connection time to eighteen months, via a single point of contact
- Dominique de Villepin: Mobilizing hundreds of billions of euros in reserved computing capacity, powered by nuclear electricity
- Emmanuel Maurel: Equipping France with Sovereign Computing Capacity Powered by Decarbonized Electricity
- Gabriel Attal: Making Electricity Production a Competitive Advantage for French AI
- Marine Tondelier: Planning data centers' electricity consumption at the national and territorial levels
- Édouard Philippe: Open preferential access to decarbonized energy for national and European AI players
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