Ardian, a global private investment firm, and its portfolio company Verne, a European platform in low-carbon and high-performance computing infrastructure, have announced their plans to develop a next-generation digital infrastructure campus in the Île-de-France region.
Designed as a unique visionary campus, the project aims to provide France and Europe more widely with low-carbon industrial computing resources to support the growth of artificial intelligence.
The large-scale platform, located within one of France’s largest industrial hubs, will house a data center dedicated to notably high-performance computing (HPC), AI model training, and advanced industrial applications. The project represents an investment of up to €5 billion ($5.8 billion), with a target capacity of 500 megawatts including an initial phase of approximately 200 megawatts by 2030.
The hub will rely on France’s high-capacity energy infrastructure, powered by low-carbon electricity in c
