While the sector for artificial secret services of China and the United States are dominated, France tries to cut off well on Monday, February 10th. A strong sign of attractiveness, energy and human advantages of the country.
Emmanuel Macron was the guest of France 2 on the evening of Sunday, February 9th, on the evening before the opening of an international summit Artificial intelligence in Paris. When the sector is dominated by the Chine And UNITED STATESThe President of the Republic intends to take the opportunity to emphasize the advantages of the French ecosystem.
His nuclear fleet
France has a Nuclear park Very efficient. According to the EDF, French nuclear energy corresponds to 87 % of electricity generation in 2023 “and” 65 % of the country’s energy mix and corresponds to more than half of European production. Nuclear has the advantage of being a decarbon and an inexpensive energy that is able to operate the country’s 264 data centers and attract new ones.
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The development of AI requires storing immense amounts of data, hence the importance of data centers. However, your operation requires cooling systems that require a permanent energy supply.
In 2023, data centers represented between 2 and 3 % of global electricity consumption, according to the International Energy Agency, which has increased significantly compared to previous years. With the development of AI, they were able to consume 13 % of the global current by 2030.
His researchers and institutes
In 2018, the 5,300 researchers, 18 Masters and 270 identified Villani report in France was identified in France Start-up Specialized in AI. At the beginning of 2025 there were hundreds of training courses and more than 750 start-ups that hired almost 40,000 specialists. The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic (Inria) now has 200 full -time researchers, including 40 % of foreigners, a strong sign of attractiveness.
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It is the fact of a virtuous circle: This boom has led giants of the sector such as Meta, Samsung, IBM or even Google to open research centers in the capital that completely seduces new researchers and engineers in the world in return.
In November 2023 billionaires Xavier Niel And Rodolphe Saadé also started the laboratory KuyutaiDedicated to research in AI. An initiative welcomed an initiative by Emmanuel Macron: “In a few years we managed to create several interdisciplinary research institutes, research chairman, to double the number of AI graduates and increase the number of doctoral students by five hundred.”
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The challenge now is to limit the leak of the brain. In a report in March 2024, the Commission for Artificial Intelligence notes that “the quality of French university education on site means that many foreign companies recruit engineers and researchers”.