France sovereign AI programme

France had 3 systems in operation by Mar 2024, the largest of 1,832 accelerators, with 13,800 under way.

France 2030, 2018–2031; the record also covers AI Action Summit, GENCI, Mistral Compute and SoftBank Hauts-de-France

Accelerators3 systems operating, the largest 1,832

A full bar is 300,000 accelerators. Each system in operation is a segment of its own, and no total is printed, since two records can describe one machine.

Tracked accelerators, as of 28 Mar 2024

Systems

Four hardware records; the pale row is under way.

The programme’s systems

Under way	Mistral AI	13,800	GB300
In operation	GENCI/CNRS	1,832	V100
In operation	GENCI/CNRS	1,456	H100
In operation	GENCI/CNRS	416	A100

Funding

Amounts cover different activities and periods, so they are not added.

Paid out

Jun 2025: 30 of 36 months

France: 27.4% of the budget paid out, Jun 2025: 30 of 36 months

27.4% paid out56 points below an even pace

€289 million of €1.055 billion

€289 million paid out by June 2025, 30 months after the phase began, of the €1.055 billion France 2030 budget programmed for the national AI strategy’s 2023–25 phase.

Sovereign AI Funding

Money on record

Its sources give government funding of ~$1.2B and ~$977M committed.

Funding components

Funding components

National AI strategy endowment under France 2030, as stated by ANR in May 2024 (€2.5 billion)Government	$2.7B
Franco-Emirati campus framework (up to €50 billion; February 2025)
Brookfield infrastructure plan (€20 billion through 2030)Foreign direct investment
Other private pledges (itemized amount unavailable)Private
SoftBank France campus plan (up to €75 billion/5 GW; first phase €45 billion/3.1 GW by 2031)Foreign direct investment	$87.3B

3 components are named in the programme’s sources without an amount.

Chips and rules

Accelerators: NVIDIA’s accelerators are in all four of its systems.Chip makers’ product pages
Fabrication: TSMC fabricates the Hopper and Blackwell parts that two of its systems name.Chip makers’ product pages
US export rules: France is in Country Group A:5, outside the groups where exporting advanced AI chips needs a licence from the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, 29 Oct 2026
Scrutica’s rating: Scrutica rates the programme’s dependence on NVIDIA hardware high, and on US technology medium, on a scale of none, low, medium and high.A qualitative assessment of the programme’s chips, partners and supplier relationships, as none, low, medium or high

Sites

Sites on record in the programme’s country, or owned by its own body.

Sites on record
				Owner
Alice Recoque (EuroHPC)	Bruyères-le-Châtel, France	Announced		EuroHPC JU
Scaleway DC2 (PAR1)	Vitry-sur-Seine, France	Operational		Iliad Sa
Scaleway DC3 (PAR1)	Vitry-sur-Seine, France	Operational		Iliad Sa
Scaleway DC4	Paris, France	Operational		Iliad Sa
Scaleway DC5 (PAR2)	Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, France	Operational		Iliad Sa
Eclairion Bruyères-le-Châtel (Mistral Compute)	Bruyères-le-Châtel, France	Under construction	13,800	Eclairion

Partners

21 partners by procurement stage, besides the operators in Systems, and 5 more named in the programme’s sources.

Commissioned, 8: Inria, CEA, CINES, AMIAD, France Universités, HubFranceIA, Mission French Tech, Station-F
Awarded, 11: Eviden, NVIDIA, IA Cluster: PR[AI]RIE – PSAI, IA Cluster: MIAI Cluster, IA Cluster: Hi! PARIS Cluster 2030, IA Cluster: PostGenAI@PARIS, IA Cluster: ENACT, IA Cluster: DATAIA-Cluster, IA Cluster: ANITI IA Cluster, IA Cluster: 3IA Côte d'Azur 2030, IA Cluster: SequoIA
Announced, 2: Bpifrance, MGX
Named in sources: Eviden (Atos), OVHcloud, Scaleway, ASML, SoftBank

Government spending

Paid against the budget, as the government reports it

€289 million paid out by June 2025, 30 months after the phase began, of the €1.055 billion France 2030 budget programmed for the national AI strategy’s 2023–25 phase. The Cour des comptes reports the France 2030 budget programmed for the national AI strategy’s 2023–25 phase and the payments made against it at 30 June 2025; no newer strategy-level execution figure appears in the 2026 and 2027 budget annexes or the Cour’s October 2026 France 2030 report.

National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, second phase (2023–2025): France 2030 programmed budget

A part of the programme. The second phase of the national AI strategy is financed entirely from France 2030 credits (Cour des comptes, p. 36) and is the government budget instrument closest to the record; the record also spans the 2018–22 first phase (separate line), the third phase launched in February 2025 (no consolidated budget published), GENCI and private campus projects, so the line is a component. The Cour dates the phase 2023–2025 (synthesis, p. 8) but its Table 3 shows first commitments under one measure in June 2022, so the cumulative payments may include sums paid before 1 January 2023; the report gives no split by year. The English edition (Table 2 p. 31, text p. 32) prints the same figures. The budget is an approved outlay because France 2030 credits are voted globally by Parliament and allocated to strategies by the executive (SGPI, Prime Minister).

The document the note names, on ccomptes.fr

Approved by the government: the €1.06 billion France 2030 budget programmed for the national AI strategy’s 2023–25 phase, January 2023 to December 2025. Printed as “1 055,2”. About $1.2B at the reference rate of 30 Jun 2025. Tableau n° 2 : priorités, indicateurs et budget programmé finalement retenus pour la deuxième phase de la SNIA Budget programmé […] France 2030 […] (en M€ et en % du total) […] Total 1 055,2 (Table 2: priorities, indicators and programmed budget finally adopted for the second phase of the SNIA. Programmed budget France 2030 (in € million and as % of total) … Total 1,055.2) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), Tableau n° 2, p. 35 (PDF page 35), column “Budget programmé France 2030 (en M€ et en % du total)”, row Total, 19 Nov 2025

Paid out: €289 million by 30 Jun 2025. Printed as “289 M€”. 30 of the budget’s 36 months had passed. About $340M at the reference rate of 30 Jun 2025. Au 30 juin 2025, les crédits engagés représentaient 830 M€, soit 79 % du budget programmé, et les paiements 289 M€, soit 35 % des crédits engagés (graphique n° 2). (At 30 June 2025, committed appropriations amounted to €830M, or 79% of the programmed budget, and payments to €289M, or 35% of committed appropriations (chart 2).) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), p. 36 (PDF page 36), section II.B, first paragraph after the heading, 19 Nov 2025

Committed: €830 million, 30 Jun 2025. Printed as “830 M€”. Appropriations committed (crédits engagés) under the second phase, 79% of the programmed budget; a commitment, not spending. Au 30 juin 2025, les crédits engagés représentaient 830 M€, soit 79 % du budget programmé, et les paiements 289 M€, soit 35 % des crédits engagés (graphique n° 2). (At 30 June 2025, committed appropriations amounted to €830M, or 79% of the programmed budget, and payments to €289M, or 35% of committed appropriations (chart 2).) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), p. 36 (PDF page 36), section II.B, 19 Nov 2025

Budget estimate: €1.07 billion, 15 Mar 2025. Printed as “1 072”. SGPI distribution of France 2030 credits to the “IA” strategy at 15 March 2025, printed by the Cour in its October 2026 France 2030 report. It is an allocation, not spending (filed as a budget estimate, the nearest measure the record has for an allocation). It states the strategy’s France 2030 envelope differently from the 1,055.2 M€ programmed for the second phase in the Cour’s November 2025 report; the two are not reconciled in either document (whether the 1,072 M€ includes third-phase measures is unverified). Détail de la répartition des crédits du plan, en M€ […] IA 1 072 […] Source : Cour des comptes d’après des données SGPI, au 15 mars 2025 (Breakdown of the plan’s credits, € million … AI 1,072 … Source: Cour des comptes from SGPI data, at 15 March 2025) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, Le plan d’investissement France 2030 : bilan à mi-parcours et enseignements pour l’avenir (rapport public thématique, octobre 2026), Annexe n° 6, p. 114 (PDF page 114), table “Détail de la répartition des crédits du plan, en M€”, row IA under Levier 4, 28 Oct 2026

Announced: €2.5 billion, 25 Dec 2025. Printed as “2,5 milliards d'euros”. Government answer to a Senate written question: the strategy launched in 2018 was ‘initially endowed’ with €2.5bn. An announced endowment, not spending; it is not reconciled with the Cour’s figures (1,527 M€ initially planned for 2018–22 and 1,055.2 M€ programmed for 2023–25). ANR used the same €2.5bn on 28 May 2024. Le lancement en 2018 de la stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle, dotée initialement de 2,5 milliards d'euros a permis de renforcer l'écosystème. (The 2018 launch of the national strategy for artificial intelligence, initially endowed with €2.5 billion, strengthened the ecosystem.) Sénat (Journal officiel, Sénat), Sénat, question écrite n° 10728 de M. David Ros (JO Sénat 3 octobre 2024) et réponse du ministère délégué chargé de l’intelligence artificielle et du numérique, Réponse publiée dans le JO Sénat du 25/12/2025, page 6307, first paragraph, 25 Dec 2025

Jean Zay supercomputer extension (national AI strategy, second phase, France 2030)

A part of the programme. The compute measure inside the second phase: the extension that took Jean Zay from 37 to 126 petaflop/s (Cour, p. 47), operated by ANR via GENCI. The Cour notes a further €5M from GENCI outside the strategy’s budget, not included here. Payments accumulate over the line’s budget period (the second phase, from 1 January 2023); Table 6 dates the measure’s first commitments to December 2023.

Approved by the government: the €40 million France 2030 budget programmed for the Jean Zay supercomputer extension, January 2023 to December 2025. Printed as “40,0”. About $47M at the reference rate of 30 Jun 2025. Tableau n° 6 : volet IA générative et infrastructures de calcul de la deuxième phase de la SNIA […] Extension du supercalculateur Jean Zay Augmentation Juin 2023 / des capacités 40,0 Opérateur ANR Décembre 40,0 39,6 (Table 6: generative AI and computing infrastructure strand of the second phase of the SNIA … Jean Zay supercomputer extension (increase in the supercomputer’s capacity; operator ANR via GENCI): first announcement June 2023 / first commitments December 2023; programmed France 2030 budget 40.0 (€M); commitments at 30 June 2025 40.0 (€M); payments at 30 June 2025 39.6 (€M)) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), Tableau n° 6, p. 46 (PDF page 46), row “Extension du supercalculateur Jean Zay”, column “Budget programmé France 2030 (en M€ et en % du total)”, 19 Nov 2025

Paid out: €39.6 million by 30 Jun 2025. Printed as “39,6”. 30 of the budget’s 36 months had passed. About $47M at the reference rate of 30 Jun 2025. Tableau n° 6 : volet IA générative et infrastructures de calcul de la deuxième phase de la SNIA […] Extension du supercalculateur Jean Zay Augmentation Juin 2023 / des capacités 40,0 Opérateur ANR Décembre 40,0 39,6 (Table 6: generative AI and computing infrastructure strand of the second phase of the SNIA … Jean Zay supercomputer extension (increase in the supercomputer’s capacity; operator ANR via GENCI): first announcement June 2023 / first commitments December 2023; programmed France 2030 budget 40.0 (€M); commitments at 30 June 2025 40.0 (€M); payments at 30 June 2025 39.6 (€M)) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), Tableau n° 6, p. 46 (PDF page 46), row “Extension du supercalculateur Jean Zay”, column “Paiements au 30 juin 2025 (en M€)”, 19 Nov 2025

Committed: €40 million, 30 Jun 2025. Printed as “40,0”. Commitments of appropriations at 30 June 2025 for the extension; a commitment, not spending. Tableau n° 6 : volet IA générative et infrastructures de calcul de la deuxième phase de la SNIA […] Extension du supercalculateur Jean Zay Augmentation Juin 2023 / des capacités 40,0 Opérateur ANR Décembre 40,0 39,6 (Table 6: generative AI and computing infrastructure strand of the second phase of the SNIA … Jean Zay supercomputer extension (increase in the supercomputer’s capacity; operator ANR via GENCI): first announcement June 2023 / first commitments December 2023; programmed France 2030 budget 40.0 (€M); commitments at 30 June 2025 40.0 (€M); payments at 30 June 2025 39.6 (€M)) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), Tableau n° 6, p. 46 (PDF page 46), column “Engagements de crédits au 30 juin 2025 (en M€)”, 19 Nov 2025

Paid out: €40 million, 19 Nov 2025. Printed as “40 M€”. The report’s text (p. 47) states the extension as 40 M€ programmed, committed and disbursed, rounding the 39.6 M€ that Table 6 gives for payments at 30 June 2025; the same document states the quantity two ways, so both are kept. The text gives no as-of date; the report date is used. L’investissement (40 M€ programmés, engagés et décaissés au titre de la SNIA, avec un complément de 5 M€ de Genci) (The investment (€40M programmed, committed and disbursed under the SNIA, with a further €5M from GENCI)) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), p. 47 (PDF page 47), section III.A.3, 19 Nov 2025

National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, first phase (2018–2022): State budget

A part of the programme. The first phase drew on existing instruments (ministerial programme appropriations, PIA 2 and 3, the Fonds pour l’innovation et l’industrie, the Fonds de transformation de l’action publique, the Plan d’investissement dans les compétences) with no single act or approval behind the total, so the 1,527 M€ ‘initially programmed’ that the Cour reconstructs from SGPI and coordinator data is recorded as an announced envelope. The Cour gives the phase as years only (2018–2022); the first and last days of those years are used. No payments figure for this phase exists in any document read: the Cour (2025, p. 19) says the administrations did not monitor what was planned, committed and spent, and its April 2023 report (pp. 42–45) found no consolidated execution.

Announced by the government: the €1.53 billion initially planned for the national AI strategy’s 2018–22 first phase, January 2018 to December 2022. Printed as “1 527”. About $1.8B at the reference rate of 19 Nov 2025. Tableau n° 1 : budget de l’État consacré à la première phase de la SNIA (2018-2022) […] Total 1 527 1 272 (*) Approximations dans la limite des données disponibles (Table 1: State budget devoted to the first phase of the SNIA (2018-2022) … Total [financing initially programmed, €M] 1,527 [appropriations ultimately committed*, €M] 1,272 (*) Approximations within the limits of the available data) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), Tableau n° 1, p. 20 (PDF page 20), column “Financements initialement programmés (en M€ et en % du total)”, row Total, 19 Nov 2025

Committed: €1.27 billion, 19 Nov 2025. Printed as “1 272”. Appropriations ultimately committed (crédits finalement engagés) for the first phase, which the Cour marks as approximations; a commitment, not spending. The Cour gives no as-of date, so the report date is used. It notes that payments for some measures ran until 2025, but prints none. Tableau n° 1 : budget de l’État consacré à la première phase de la SNIA (2018-2022) […] Total 1 527 1 272 (*) Approximations dans la limite des données disponibles (Table 1: State budget devoted to the first phase of the SNIA (2018-2022) … Total [financing initially programmed, €M] 1,527 [appropriations ultimately committed*, €M] 1,272 (*) Approximations within the limits of the available data) Cour des comptes, Cour des comptes, La stratégie nationale pour l’intelligence artificielle : consolider les succès de la politique publique de l’IA, élargir son champ (rapport public thématique, novembre 2025), Tableau n° 1, p. 20 (PDF page 20), column “Crédits finalement engagés* (en M€ et en % du total)”, row Total, 19 Nov 2025

Searched, 15 places

Cour des comptes: thematic report on the national AI strategy (French original, English edition, administrations’ responses, publication page): Rapport public thématique of 19 November 2025 (French PDF served from /2026-01/, modified 27 January 2026; English edition /2025-11/); réponses des administrations (13 pp.). Second-phase programmed budget 1,055.2 M€ (Table 2), commitments 830 M€ and payments 289 M€ at 30 June 2025 (p. 36), measure tables with payments by measure (Tables 3, 6, 7), first-phase Table 1 (1,527 M€ planned, 1,272 M€ committed, no payments). Same figures in the English edition. The responses carry no execution figures. Cour des comptes: thematic report on the national AI strategy (French original, English edition, administrations’ responses, publication page), 2 Nov 2026

Cour des comptes: thematic report on the national AI research strategy (April 2023): Rapport public thématique of 3 April 2023, section I.C ‘Un suivi non exhaustif de l’exécution financière de la stratégie’ (pp. 42–45). No consolidated first-phase execution figure: the Cour estimates operator-level AI funding for Inria, CNRS and CEA only and states that credits granted to AI cannot be reconciled. Excerpt kept (full PDF 7 MB deleted, SHA-256 in the excerpt). Cour des comptes: thematic report on the national AI research strategy (April 2023), 2 Nov 2026

Cour des comptes: thematic report on the France 2030 investment plan (October 2026): Rapport public thématique ‘Le plan d’investissement France 2030’, 28 October 2026 (129 pp.), incl. Annexe n° 6. Restates the second phase as ‘environ 1,1 Md€’ (p. 95) and prints the SGPI allocation to the ‘IA’ strategy, 1,072 M€ at 15 March 2025 (p. 114); no newer AI-strategy commitments or payments. Cour des comptes: thematic report on the France 2030 investment plan (October 2026), 2 Nov 2026

Assemblée nationale: PLF 2027 dossier, jaune ‘Rapport relatif à la mise en œuvre et au suivi des investissements d’avenir’ (annex to the 2027 finance bill): Jaune 2027 (PLF 2027, PDF created 12 October 2026, 185 pp.), Part III §1.1.14 Levier 4 and Annexes 2 and 4. Levier 4 (digital: cloud, quantum, AI, cyber, 5G, green IT) envelope 4.4 Md€ and 2.37 Md€ committed at 30 June 2026; no AI-strategy-level commitments or payments. Assemblée nationale: PLF 2027 dossier, jaune ‘Rapport relatif à la mise en œuvre et au suivi des investissements d’avenir’ (annex to the 2027 finance bill), 2 Nov 2026

Assemblée nationale: PLF 2026 jaune on investissements d’avenir: Jaune 2026 (PLF 2026, October 2025, 198 pp.), Part III §1.1.14 Levier 4. Levier 4 envelope 3.16 Md€ and 2.2 Md€ committed at 30 June 2025; AI calls for projects named without amounts; no AI-strategy totals. Assemblée nationale: PLF 2026 jaune on investissements d’avenir, 2 Nov 2026

Assemblée nationale: PLF 2027 projet annuel de performances, mission ‘Investir pour la France de 2030’: PAP 2027 (119 pp.), programmes 421–425, action-level AE/CP and narrative. Action-level credits only; PIA 3 action ‘Équipements structurants de recherche’ funds 80 M€ of the EuroHPC exascale co-acquisition (329 M€ paid to beneficiaries across the whole action at 30 June 2026); no AI-strategy line. Assemblée nationale: PLF 2027 projet annuel de performances, mission ‘Investir pour la France de 2030’, 2 Nov 2026

Assemblée nationale: finance committee report on PLF 2027 (n° 3291), Tome III annex 24 ‘Gestion des finances publiques … : Investir pour la France de 2030’: Rapport n° 3291 rectifié (10 October 2026), annex 24 page. The annex page carries its title only; no report text was online on 2 November 2026. Assemblée nationale: finance committee report on PLF 2027 (n° 3291), Tome III annex 24 ‘Gestion des finances publiques … : Investir pour la France de 2030’, 2 Nov 2026

Sénat: finance committee report on the 2025 accounts (PLRG 2025), rapporteurs’ contribution, annex 17 ‘Investir pour la France de 2030’: Rapport n° 736 (2025-2026), 17 June 2026. Mission-level 2025 execution (3.3 Md€ CP executed; 5.1 Md€ disbursed by operators in 2025); no AI-strategy figures. Sénat: finance committee report on the 2025 accounts (PLRG 2025), rapporteurs’ contribution, annex 17 ‘Investir pour la France de 2030’, 2 Nov 2026

Sénat: rapport général on PLF 2026, annex 16 ‘Investir pour la France de 2030’: Rapport n° 139 (2025-2026), 24 November 2025. No AI-strategy budget or execution figures. Sénat: rapport général on PLF 2026, annex 16 ‘Investir pour la France de 2030’, 2 Nov 2026

Comité de surveillance des investissements d’avenir (CSIA): 2025 evaluation report: Rapport 2025 (April 2026, 312 pp.), incl. ‘Évaluation 2025 de l’électronique, de la robotique et du numérique – leviers 2 et 4’ (October 2025). Levier 4: 3,159 M€ over six strategies, 70% committed at 31 August 2025; 2,051 M€ of aid committed at 31 December 2024; no AI-strategy split. Excerpt kept (full PDF 6.4 MB deleted, SHA-256 in the excerpt). Comité de surveillance des investissements d’avenir (CSIA): 2025 evaluation report, 2 Nov 2026

Secrétariat général pour l’investissement (SGPI): rapport d’activité 2025: Rapport d’activité 2025 (published 22 June 2026, 132 pp.), pôle Souveraineté numérique pp. 86–88. Narrative on the AI strategy in 2025 (29 M€ France 2030 support to the Eclairion x Mistral data centre; ‘100 M€ investit en 2025’ for emerging AI actors, measure unspecified); no cumulative AI-strategy commitments or payments. Excerpt kept (full PDF 22 MB deleted). Secrétariat général pour l’investissement (SGPI): rapport d’activité 2025, 2 Nov 2026

Parliamentary written questions on the national AI strategy (Sénat and Assemblée nationale): Sénat QE n° 10728 (answer JO Sénat 25 December 2025, p. 6307); AN QE n° 16957 (JO 14 July 2026, asks for an objective-by-objective review of phases 1 and 2). Senate answer: strategy ‘dotée initialement de 2,5 milliards d’euros’, no execution figure. AN QE 16957: answer listed as published 3 November 2026; its text was not online on 2 November 2026. Parliamentary written questions on the national AI strategy (Sénat and Assemblée nationale), 2 Nov 2026

budget.gouv.fr (performance-publique budget documents): PLF 2027 and RAP 2025 document index. Site answered with a bot-protection (Incapsula) script page; not accessed. The PLF 2027 jaune and PAP were read from the Assemblée nationale copies instead; the RAP 2025 for the mission was not located on an accessible host. budget.gouv.fr (performance-publique budget documents), 2 Nov 2026

info.gouv.fr news pages (Government; SGPI announcements, 16 June 2026 ‘Accélérer l’IA dans l’État’): Release of 16 June 2026 announcing €655M of additional France 2030 funding for AI; SGPI news page of 22 June 2026. HTML pages return HTTP 403 behind a JavaScript challenge; not read. PDF uploads on the same host are reachable (the CSIA and SGPI reports above; a 30 July 2026 release on a €100M State compute-purchase commitment for an AI gigafactory, context only). info.gouv.fr news pages (Government; SGPI announcements, 16 June 2026 ‘Accélérer l’IA dans l’État’), 2 Nov 2026

Direction générale des Entreprises and ANR pages on the strategy: DGE ‘La France et l’IA : bilan et perspectives’ (7 February 2025); ANR release of 28 May 2024 (IA Clusters). DGE: ‘plus de 2,5 milliards d’euros ont été investis’ since 2018 (measure undefined; the page says it was partly AI-generated); ANR: strategy ‘dotée de 2,5 Mds €’. Neither is an execution figure. Direction générale des Entreprises and ANR pages on the strategy, 2 Nov 2026

Still open

No execution figure later than 30 June 2025 has been published for the strategy; the government’s answer to AN written question 16957 (JO 3 November 2026) may give one and was not online on 2 November 2026.

Whether the 289 M€ includes payments made in 2022 (Table 3 shows first commitments under ‘Compétences et métiers d’avenir’ in June 2022) is unverified; the report gives no split by year.

The third phase (from February 2025) and the €655M announced on 16 June 2026 have no published consolidated budget or execution; the 16 June release on info.gouv.fr could not be opened (JavaScript challenge).

The SGPI’s 1,072 M€ allocation to the ‘IA’ strategy (15 March 2025) and the Cour’s 1,055.2 M€ second-phase budget are not reconciled in any document read.

The RAP 2025 for the mission ‘Investir pour la France de 2030’ was not located on an accessible host (budget.gouv.fr is behind a bot challenge); it reports by action, not by strategy, so it is unlikely to carry an AI-strategy figure (unverified).

Open Sovereign AI funding

Sources

19 sources

Source	Date
Cour des comptes: the national AI strategy’s 2023–25 budget, with commitments and payments at 30 June 2025 (report of 19 November 2025)	24 Oct 2026
SoftBank: proposed French data-centre investment and first-phase scope, May 2026	8 Sep 2026
NVIDIA: Mistral Compute deployment plan, campus partnership and French computing customers, June 2025	8 Sep 2026
GENCI/CNRS: Jean Zay hardware extension and €40M grant, March 2024	8 Sep 2026
CNRS: Jean Zay extension inauguration and operator role, May 2025	8 Sep 2026
Official Élysée AI Action Summit page	28 Mar 2026
Gide: Mistral financing tranches and 13,800 GB300 acquisition, March 2026	8 Sep 2026
French government: supplementary €655M for AI infrastructure, announced June 2026	8 Sep 2026
GENCI: AI Factory France consortium and planned computing access, September 2025	8 Sep 2026
Mistral AI: launch of its computing service and NVIDIA partnership, June 2025	8 Sep 2026
École Polytechnique: AI campus joint venture, founders and construction targets, May 2025	8 Sep 2026
ANR: nine research and training cluster grants, May 2024	8 Sep 2026
ECB: euro/US-dollar reference rate, 1 June 2026	8 Sep 2026
Brookfield: €20B French infrastructure plan and component scope, February 2025	8 Sep 2026
Élysée: February 2025 infrastructure investment announcements and Franco-Emirati framework	8 Sep 2026
Federal Reserve H.10 USD/EUR exchange-rate series, distributed by FRED.	30 Oct 2026
CSIS: AI Action Summit investment announcements	28 Mar 2026
Public Sénat: June 2026 announcement of additional France 2030 AI funding	8 Sep 2026
Data Centre Dynamics: Eviden contract details	28 Mar 2026

Cour des comptes: the national AI strategy’s 2023–25 budget, with commitments and payments at 30 June 2025 (report of 19 November 2025): https://www.ccomptes.fr/sites/default/files/2025-11/20251119-The-National-Strategy-for-Artificial-Intelligence.pdf
SoftBank: proposed French data-centre investment and first-phase scope, May 2026: https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20260531_0
NVIDIA: Mistral Compute deployment plan, campus partnership and French computing customers, June 2025: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/france-sovereign-ai-infrastructure/
GENCI/CNRS: Jean Zay hardware extension and €40M grant, March 2024: https://www.genci.fr/en/news/genci-and-cnrs-choose-eviden-make-jean-zay-supercomputer-one-most-powerful-france
CNRS: Jean Zay extension inauguration and operator role, May 2025: https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/jean-zay-supercomputer-france-has-increased-its-ai-dedicated-resources-fourfold
Official Élysée AI Action Summit page: https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia
Gide: Mistral financing tranches and 13,800 GB300 acquisition, March 2026: https://www.gide.com/news-insights/gide-conseille-mistral-ai-dans-le-cadre-de-son-premier-financement-dun-montant-de-c-830-millions-de-dollars-americains-afin-doperer-un-data-center-en-region-parisienne-a-bruyeres-le-chatel-franc/
French government: supplementary €655M for AI infrastructure, announced June 2026: https://www.info.gouv.fr/actualite/accelerer-l-ia-dans-l-etat-et-au-service-des-francais
GENCI: AI Factory France consortium and planned computing access, September 2025: https://www.genci.fr/en/news/what-ai-factory-france
Mistral AI: launch of its computing service and NVIDIA partnership, June 2025: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-compute
École Polytechnique: AI campus joint venture, founders and construction targets, May 2025: https://www.polytechnique.edu/en/press-room/press-releases/mgx-bpifrance-mistral-ai-and-nvidia-launch-joint-venture-build-europes-largest-ai-campus-france
ANR: nine research and training cluster grants, May 2024: https://anr.fr/actualites-de-lanr/details/news/intelligence-artificielle-9-nouveaux-ia-clusters-et-2-nouveaux-laureats-competences-et-metie/
ECB: euro/US-dollar reference rate, 1 June 2026: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/usd.xml
Brookfield: €20B French infrastructure plan and component scope, February 2025: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/02/10/3023291/0/en/brookfield-to-invest-20-billion-in-france-s-ai-infrastructure.html
Élysée: February 2025 infrastructure investment announcements and Franco-Emirati framework: https://www.elysee.fr/admin/upload/default/0001/17/d9c1462e7337d353f918aac7d654b896b77c5349.pdf
Federal Reserve H.10 USD/EUR exchange-rate series, distributed by FRED.: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DEXUSEU
CSIS: AI Action Summit investment announcements: https://www.csis.org/analysis/frances-ai-action-summit
Public Sénat: June 2026 announcement of additional France 2030 AI funding: https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/politique/ia-la-france-debloque-655-millions-deuros-pour-accelerer-sa-souverainete-numerique
Data Centre Dynamics: Eviden contract details: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/eviden-to-upgrade-frances-jean-zay-supercomputer-with-nvidia-h100-gpus/

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Operating compute / delivered hardware. Reported operational or delivered: 1,456 NVIDIA H100 (physical hardware); 416 NVIDIA A100 (physical hardware); 1,832 NVIDIA V100 (physical hardware). The stage is assigned from reported hardware status, disbursements and commitments.

The share disbursed divides the government’s published spending by its own budget, both in EUR: 27.4%.

France combines public research computing with commercial cloud and data-centre projects. GENCI’s Jean Zay, operated by CNRS at IDRIS, has 1,456 H100, 416 A100 and 1,832 V100 GPUs. Mistral AI secured financing in March 2026 to acquire 13,800 GB300 GPUs for Bruyères-le-Châtel. SoftBank’s separate campus plan targets 3.1 GW in Hauts-de-France by 2031 as a first phase.

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The Cour des comptes reported on 19 November 2025 that the France 2030 budget for the national AI strategy’s 2023–25 phase was €1,055.2M, which its summary rounds to €1.1B. By 30 June 2025, €830M had been committed (79% of that budget) and €289M paid (35% of commitments).
ANR described the national AI strategy as endowed with €2.5B under France 2030 in May 2024. The Cour’s report does not use that figure; it separately estimates that €3.4B had been committed to AI across France 2030 by 31 December 2024.
The Jean Zay extension received a €40M grant and was inaugurated on 13 May 2025. The grant announcement does not itemize payments to suppliers.
Mistral’s transaction adviser describes approximately $830M of financing for the acquisition of 13,800 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs. Availability of that specific cohort is unconfirmed. NVIDIA’s June 2025 plan for 18,000 Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra GPUs describes an earlier, broader deployment plan.
Mistral AI, MGX, Bpifrance and NVIDIA announced a joint venture for a Paris-region campus in May 2025, targeting 1.4 GW. Construction was expected in the second half of 2026, with operations from 2028.
SoftBank’s May 2026 plan proposes up to €75B and 5 GW in France. Its first phase specifies €45B for 3.1 GW at Dunkirk, Bosquel and Bouchain by 2031; these are planned investments. The €45B is included in the €75B.
France 2030’s additional €655M, announced on 16 June 2026, supports AI Gigafactories and the European common-interest AI project. Its overlap with earlier strategy allocations has not been reconciled.
The recorded private pledges differ in scope and date; their combined programme total is not established.
The US$87.345B equivalent of SoftBank’s €75B upper-limit plan uses the ECB reference rate of US$1.1646 per euro on 1 June 2026.
The February 2025 Franco-Emirati framework proposed up to €50B for a 1-GW AI campus. A consolidated funding schedule across this framework and the May 2025 joint venture is unavailable.
Brookfield’s February 2025 plan allocates up to €15B to Data4 data centres and a further €5B to associated infrastructure, including data transfer, chip storage and energy generation, through 2030. Dollar equivalents for this plan and the Franco-Emirati framework lack a dated conversion source.
The Cour’s figures convert at US$1.1770 per euro on 30 June 2025, the date they are stated at. The €2.5B component converts at US$1.0879 per euro on 28 May 2024, ANR’s publication date. Both rates are from the Federal Reserve’s H.10 series.

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Sovereign AI: France’s funding and India’s spending, restated from the governments’ own reports25 Oct 2026

Identifiers

Scrutica ID: sovereign-fr
Country code: FR
Name in the record: France: France 2030 / AI Action Summit / GENCI / Mistral Compute / SoftBank Hauts-de-France