Dominique de Villepin: Require priority siting of data centers on brownfield sites
Proposal put forward by Dominique de Villepin on August 24, 2025. Topic: Siting and Land. The observatory also publishes quotes from 9 other public figures on this topic.
For example, we will need to require priority siting of data centers on brownfield sites.
Original quote (French)
Il nous faudra par exemple imposer l’implantation prioritaire des centres de données sur des friches.Source: lafrancehumaniste.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Bruno Le Maire: Ten-year programming laws covering data centers, supercomputers and semiconductors
- Bruno Retailleau: Raising sovereign computing capacity to around 1 GW by 2030, then toward 4 GW in 2035-2038
- Delphine Batho: Subjecting the proliferation of data centers to collective debate
- 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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