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Data centers and French sovereignty

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White & Case partners Sarah Fleury, Clara Hainsdorf and Orion Berg have co-authored an article titled Data Centers and French Sovereignty which was published in the MIPIM special issue of Fusions & Acquisitions Magazine.

The exponential growth in demand for computing power, cloud processing, and storage, driven by the rise of AI, places a huge emphasis on data centers. French public authorities have set a clear objective to encourage the establishment of data centers on national territory to preserve France's digital sovereignty in the face of extraterritoriality risks. This article aims to provide an overview of French regulations, which must be analyzed by each data center stakeholder.

This article was written with Clément Bellaclas.

This article is reproduced with permission from Fusions & Acquisitions Magazine.

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