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France and India seek AI data center investment from tech firms
French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have met with technology executives this year to discuss data center and cloud infrastructure projects. The two leaders hosted separate events that produced investment commitments from several companies.
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have each hosted technology executives this year to discuss data center and cloud infrastructure projects. Macron hosted several chief executives at the G7 summit in June. The group included OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis.
Macron also met separately with SoftBank's Masayoshi Son.
Macron highlighted France's nuclear power capacity and increased the planned capacity from 2 GW to 3 GW. In May, SoftBank announced plans to build 3.1 GW of AI data centers in France by 2031 as part of a 75-billion-euro program.
Jassy announced a record $48 billion investment in India, of which $21 billion is allocated to AI and cloud infrastructure. Earlier this year, Modi hosted Microsoft chair Satya Nadella, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, and Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan at the Global AI summit.
Those meetings produced commitments of hundreds of billions of dollars for Indian AI projects. Google separately announced a $15 billion investment to build its largest AI hub outside the United States. Microsoft made its largest investment in Asia to support sovereign AI capabilities.
