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Macron’s G7 Legacy Hangs on Fickle AI Funding and Data Centers

Macron’s G7 Legacy Hangs on Fickle AI Funding and Data Centers
Bloomberg Technology Monday 15 June 2026, 04:15 UTC By Ania Nussbaum, Benoit Berthelot, Mark Bergen 1 min read
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Macron’s G7 Legacy Hangs on Fickle AI Funding and Data Centers - The French president hosts tech and political leaders in Evian - The G7 is among his last chances to showcase his AI ambitions With less than a year left in office, Emmanuel Macron wants to be remembered as the French president who put Europe back in the technology race. His decade-old ambition to turn France into a “startup nation” never fully delivered. Now Macron sees a second chance by positioning France as Europe’s...

Macron’s G7 Legacy Hangs on Fickle AI Funding and Data Centers - The French president hosts tech and political leaders in Evian - The G7 is among his last chances to showcase his AI ambitions With less than a year left in office, Emmanuel Macron wants to be remembered as the French president who put Europe back in the technology race. His decade-old ambition to turn France into a “startup nation” never fully delivered. Now Macron sees a second chance by positioning France as Europe’s artificial-intelligence powerhouse, leveraging the nation’s abundant supply of nuclear energy for data centers. He convinced Softbank Group Corp. to invest as much as €75 billion ($86 billion) in French projects.
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