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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced 109 billion in private investments to improve French AI infrastructure.

Using nuclear energy to power its AI data centers seems like the natural progression.

France�s President Emmanuel Macron (C), flanked by France�s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal (2nd L), France�s Minister for Economy and Finances Bruno Le Maire (L), France�s Minister for Interior and Overseas Gerald Darmanin (R), and Elysee�s general secretary Alexis Kohler (2nd R), chairs a security and defence council at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on May 16, 2024, after three nights of clashes in France�s riot-struck Pacific territory of New Caledonia protest following a reform changing voting rolls that representatives of the indigenous Kanak population say will dilute their vote.

FluidStack, the company behind the project, aims to start work in the third quarter of 2024.

Energy demands are only rising, too.

SeparateWSJreporting reveals that todays leading AI models used 30 megawatts of energy for training.

That could rise to five gigawatts by the end of the decade.