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France to harness nuclear power for AI data centres, says Macron

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PARIS, March 10 (Reuters) – France will be able to ​open data centres ‌and meet the needs of artificial intelligence thanks to its ‌large ​energy ⁠exports, French President ⁠Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday.

“In France, last year, we ​exported 90 terawatt-hours of decarbonized ⁠electricity. Thanks ⁠to our nuclear ​plants, we have ​the ability to open ‌data centers, to build computing capacity, to be ⁠at the heart of the artificial intelligence challenge,” ⁠Macron ‌said in his ⁠keynote speech ​at ‌the World Nuclear ​Energy summit ⁠in Paris.

(Reporting by Forrest Crellin and Gianluca Lo Nostro; Editing by Sudip ​Kar-Gupta)

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