France’s AI infrastructure push is moving into operation as national investment programs and industry partnerships bring new compute capacity online. Mistral is building a 44-megawatt data center in Bruyères-le-Châtel, with a first deployment already running on 18,000 NVIDIA GB200 systems and a roadmap for 200 megawatts of compute capacity across Europe by 2027. Mistral is also working with Bpifrance, MGX and NVIDIA to expand Campus AI around a planned 1.4-gigawatt facility.
The buildout extends across France’s AI supply chain. Scaleway is offering NVIDIA Blackwell instances, Bull and Foxconn plan European production of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, and Schneider Electric is collaborating with NVIDIA on blueprints for gigawatt-scale AI factories. A consortium of eight French companies has also submitted a bid to host a European AI gigafactory in France.
Open models are becoming a central part of the ecosystem, with Mistral, LINAGORA, H Company and Pleias using NVIDIA Nemotron tools, datasets and model infrastructure for local-language and enterprise AI. LINAGORA’s Luciole 1B, 8B and 23B models target French-language use cases, while Pleias is developing synthetic persona datasets and compact models designed for transparency and data provenance.
Production deployments are expanding across major French industries. Sanofi is using AI agents for research, manufacturing, procurement and IT, Orange Business has scaled Live Intelligence GenAI to more than 100,000 active users internally, Stellantis is advancing AI-enabled digital twins, TotalEnergies is building Pangea 5, and L’Oréal is combining generative AI with 3D digital twins for content production.
