Altarea, a low-carbon urban transformation group in France, and Vantage Data Centers, a global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, have announced the signing of a partnership to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud data center campus expected to be one of the largest in France.
The campus will be developed on land owned by Altarea close to Bordeaux, France. Altarea has already secured a 400-megawatt power connection with the French utility, enabling rapid time to market to meet accelerating AI and cloud customer demand.
The campus marks Vantage’s first expansion into the French market and continued growth throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where it currently serves customers across nine markets. It also reflects Altarea’s growing pipeline in the fast-moving data center market.
Altarea and Vantage will bring together their combined expertise in real estate, development and digital infrastructure to support leading hyperscale,