{"id":17986,"date":"2026-05-20T13:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=84a9aa76f803f0445ee36e1f270b5991"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:59:58","slug":"french-companies-bid-10bn-for-one-of-the-eus-five-planned-ai-gigafactory-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17986","title":{"rendered":"French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU\u2019s five planned AI gigafactory sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.thenextweb.com\/2026\/05\/A-Scaleway-led-AION-consortium.avif\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. A consortium of French companies led by Iliad\u2019s cloud subsidiary Scaleway has bid roughly $10bn to build one of the European Union\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/french-companies-bid-10bn-eu-ai-gigafactory-aion?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/french-companies-bid-10bn-eu-ai-gigafactory-aion\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}