Paris – pay the Data centers provisionMotors of the artificial island, and is close to the investments, the government recalls that France has abundant, decarbon and pilotable energy. Arguments that have been enough to convince the start-up Mistral AI to implant its next Data Center in France.
“Have chosen them in France, it dissociates from a dearbonee and very competitive electrical,” said its director Arthur Mensch, in Politico. Even his American rival Sam Altman of Openai a pre-before, in a little gallery in the world on Saturday. Without announcing investments in France at this stage.
In question: the empilation of types requests on the desk of the Reasseau, RTE manager. The latter is kept by law to respond to all requests. “The debates to carry out our projects Data centers provision Went from Dedux to three years on average at more than five years and Maime sometimes seven years, ”says Data4 boss, Olivier Micheli.
“In France, there is no problem of production of hectricity, since we export it, but distribution networks,” abounds son competing Fabrice Coquio by Digital Realty. He quotes the example of the Marseille region already, pending a new high voltage line.
Like other operators of Data centers provisionHe criticizes RTE, and more broadly to the public authorities, for having poorly anticipated the evolution of uses and electrical consumption, and therefore of having under-infringement in the networks.
Such that the criteria for selecting the location of Data centers provision Complete reversed: the idea is no longer to bring electricity to Data centers provisionBut rather to build the Data centers provision Near electricity and centralics.
For its part, RTE puts the demanding of demand into perspective, which repseeses approximately nine gigawatts on the last years just for the Data centers provision. The Reaganeau Sœgne gestary that many projects do not materialize, and that certain police police require in parallel in the different members.
Same bell son on the side of the Elysée. “On this very strong phenomenon of Anonce, (but) there are more or less credible, more or less funded projects”, Recondonnatet an Elyssean counselor, which evokes “sometimes fictitious projects”.
Another observation: project porters tend to overestimate their consumption of electricity. The operators signifying agreements with RTE for security in advance an electrical drawing on a more or less stark horizon, Maistes actually use only 20 to 30% of the power they Ontan. In Marcoussis, Data4 A therefore signed around 250 megawatts, Maistes uses only 150.
“The mortgages our requests of the race are therefore quite cautious, towards taking into account the numberus uncertainties on the type of new consumers,” said a spokesperson for RTE.
An artificial counseling to which RTE intends to put an end to the refeffeur of the unused electric powers. A work conducted in connection with the energy regulator, CRE: it took up the first decis in this sense which began in force on August 1. The manager promises other advances on Thursday, announced during the presentation of his ten -year re -session development scheme.
Operations of Data centers provision And their investors will be able to discuss the direction of these subjects, this Monday, February 10, with the bosses of RTE and EDF, ministers of Maisseurs, Maissi the Pésident Emmanuel Macron, of course the adjure.
Among the guests of Reunion at the Elysee, on find the two American giants Equinix and Digital Realty, the French Data4, the suppliers of Cloud and IA Microsoft and Google, the Ulevid Arthur Mensch, as well as investors like Apollo, JP Morgan, or MGX, the Emirati Fund in the heart of the offer to more tens of billions of euros signed Thursday between France and the United Arab Emirates.
35 “turnkey” sites, true?
The discussions to launch them, which appear well premise the pre -meeting of Reunion according to the Elysée, the executive puts on the United Table List of Sites Particularly adapted to the Data centers provision and “Keys in the sector”. CES sites, are not the old factories or wasteland of the SNCF, are cans gathering all the prerequisites: the availability of land, efficient connection to the electrical resistration and optical fiber connectivity. Well almost. If some will be ready in this year, most will not be from 2027 or even 2030.
The Lind communicated by the Elysée accounts for 35 sites, do not certain outgoing over a gigawatt of power. Eight are located in Ile-de-France, an unaregion appreciated for its proximity to large companies. Butans in Marseille. However, the location of the Marseille city is considered ideal: there are many submarine centers there that connect Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
It remains to be seen candidate sites are truly new and attractive. “It is in part of the heated”, Analyze an act of cloud. More optimistic, the boss of Equinix in France, Régis Castagné, believes that “all sites will not interest all actors” but that the pre-identification by the government constituting “Greater unity”, reproaching a lack of departure from rte on “the sources of disontable electricality”.
According to him, the removal of certain sites offered the large urban centers and the landing points of the underwater cables is AIALL are less sensitive to the problem of blade ”than are the banks, for example.
Love and presubes of love
Porés by the government’s displayed Soutitian of the government, the operations therefore feels pushing wings, but still seeing if it will last word and will make the need to raise the brakes to their implantation. A beginner by administrative formalities: building permit, environmental authorizations, requests to racorize electrical …
The simplification bill, maintains times, must bring in the major projects of Data centers provision In the category of “industrial iteter -major projects”. A sesame that to accelerate certain procedures and save them precious place in the RTE waiting file. Which also offers a modifier one of 2002 circulating in order to shorten the duration of prior consultations, just to win a few months.
A condition not to place the bar too high. Data4 militates, for example, Water flows the heligibility threshold of projects apart from united electrical power of 100 megawatts. Equinix also attends him Beaucop of this law: he does not plan to announce investments before obtaining this cutting-line status, and guarantees on the elected price.
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