French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI "gigafactory" outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity (Financial Times)

Financial Times: French private equity firm Ardian partners with data center group Verne to build an up to €5B AI “gigafactory” outside Paris, targeting 500MW in total capacity - Data centre and research facility to be built as Europe seeks to create ‘digital backbone for the future’