Ardian joins the AION consortium's €10B bid to build an AI gigafactory in France, part of the EU's push to compete with US and China in AI compute.

SoftBank is in talks with French President Macron over a potential $100B AI data center in France, which would be Europe's largest AI facility.

SoftBank commits up to €75 billion to build 5 GW of AI data center capacity in France, marking Europe's largest AI infrastructure investment and the firm's biggest outside the US.