Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Criticism of government announcements on data centers and AI infrastructure funded by foreign groups
Statement made by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on June 1, 2026. Topic: Siting and Land. The observatory also publishes quotes from 9 other public figures on this topic.
the government is now celebrating new giant data center and AI infrastructure projects, including several tens of billions of euros backed by foreign groups
Original quote (French)
le gouvernement célèbre désormais de nouveaux projets géants de data centers et d’infrastructures d’IA, dont plusieurs dizaines de milliards d’euros portés par des groupes étrangersSource: lafranceinsoumise.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
- 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%
- 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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