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Macron hosts AI leaders
In May, SoftBank announced plans to build 3.1 GW of AI data centers in France by 2031, as part of a 75-billion-euro program to roll out 5 GW of AI data center capacity. Macron requested a meeting with SoftBank's Son to persuade him to commit to the project two months earlier, and the two exchanged texts as they hashed out the details, Son told CNBC in an interview. Macron touted France's power capacity — the country gets a large amount of its electricity from nuclear — and committed to securing the SoftBank projects 3GW instead of 2GW, the number the French premier first suggested, he added. "His team, the government team is very supportive," Son said. "His team and our team work in collaboration very well." Around the same time, Macron approached tech bosses to join a working lunch with world leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, at the G7 conference in June, which France was hosting. CEOs including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis all took part. Other tech chiefs including France-based Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch, Canada's Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez, Italian company Domyn's Uljan Sharka, U.K. AI scaleup Synthesia's Victor Riparbelli and German-based Black Forest Labs' Robin Rombach were also there.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) takes a group photo with AI company leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (2nd R), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei (R), Google CEO Sundar Pichai (2nd L), and Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang (L), at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images
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