Bruno Retailleau: Financing data centers mainly through private capital, with the State acting on land and grid connection
Proposal put forward by Bruno Retailleau on September 24, 2026. Topic: Siting and Land. The observatory also publishes quotes from 9 other public figures on this topic.
Its financing would be mostly provided by private and European capital, with the State intervening on land, grid connection and the guarantee of public procurement rather than on the investment itself.
Original quote (French)
Son financement serait majoritairement assuré par des capitaux privés et européens , l'État intervenant sur le foncier, le raccordement et la garantie de commande publique plutôt que sur l'investissement lui-même.Source: avecretailleau.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Bruno Le Maire: Ten-year programming laws covering data centers, supercomputers and semiconductors
- Delphine Batho: Subjecting the proliferation of data centers to collective debate
- Dominique de Villepin: Require priority siting of data centers on brownfield sites
- François Ruffin: Regulate data center siting by favoring French groups with state capital
- Gabriel Attal: Raising Europe's share of global computing power from 3% to 20%
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Decree a moratorium on the installation of non-sovereign data centers, without public participation
- Marine Tondelier: Bringing data centers back within the scope of the Commission nationale du débat public
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Having mega data-processing and hosting centers that produce heat
- Xavier Bertrand: States that France can impose its conditions on data centers located on its soil
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