Orange, Morrison Partner on French Data Center Project
THE SO WHAT
Orange teaming with Morrison to build a French data center company is about locking in local control as AI-era workloads surge. If you operate in or sell into Europe, expect more questions about where data and compute physically reside — and be ready with precise answers, not generalities.
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