French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites

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’s cloud subsidiary Scaleway has bid roughly $10bn to build one of the European Union’s […] This story continues at The Next Web