Could nuclear be the answer to France’s future data centre market growth?  

France has built one of Europe’s most structurally competitive data centre markets, anchored by low-carbon power, strong connectivity and sustained hyperscale investment. Yet growth is becoming increasingly complex. AI-driven demand is accelerating faster than permitting processes, grid connections and land availability can accommodate, placing physical and regulatory constraints at the centre of market development. France now reflects a broader European dynamic, in which rising digital demand and decarbonisation objectives collide with infrastructure bottlenecks, reshaping how and where capacity is deployed.