# France — France 2030 · sovereign AI programme Sovereign programme record · France · 2018–2031 ## France: ~$2.72B in government funding # France: France 2030 / AI Action Summit / GENCI / Mistral Compute / SoftBank Hauts-de-France - Announced— No announced dollar amount on record. - Government funding~$2.72B - Committed~$2.72B - Disbursed— No disbursed dollar amount on record. Funding stages share a dollar scale. A hatched track marks an absent figure and gives its reason. Tildes mark estimated figures. Cite **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). ### Funding components | Component | Kind | Amount | | --- | --- | --- | | France 2030 national AI strategy budget (€2.5B) | Government | $2.72B | | Franco-Emirati campus framework (up to €50B; February 2025) | Unspecified | — | | Brookfield infrastructure plan (€20B through 2030) | Foreign direct investment | — | | Other private pledges (itemized amount unavailable) | Private | — | | SoftBank France campus plan (up to €75B/5 GW; first phase €45B/3.1 GW by 2031) | Foreign direct investment | $87.3B | ### Hardware on record
ModelCountStatusOrganisation / role
NVIDIA H1001,456OperationalGENCI/CNRS (government)

Physical hardware: Jean Zay’s H100 extension: 364 servers with four GPUs each. Primary source · 2024-03-28

NVIDIA A100416OperationalGENCI/CNRS (government)

Physical hardware: Jean Zay’s A100 partition, described alongside its March 2024 expansion. Primary source · 2024-03-28

NVIDIA V1001,832OperationalGENCI/CNRS (government)

Physical hardware: Jean Zay’s V100 partition, described alongside its March 2024 expansion. Primary source · 2024-03-28

NVIDIA GB30013,800Procurement activeMistral AI; financed acquisition for Bruyères-le-Châtel (March 2026)

Physical hardware: GB300 acquisition financed for Mistral’s Bruyères-le-Châtel data centre. Primary source · 2026-03-30

#### Empanelled partners · 24
PartnerAcceleratorsModelStageSource
GENCI——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-03-12

Leads AI Factory France and owns Jean Zay, which CNRS operates at IDRIS. The AI Factory connects users with public computing resources and technical support.

  • Programme-level disclosure
CNRS1,456NVIDIA H100CommissionedPrimary source · 2024-03-28

Physical hardware: Jean Zay’s H100 extension; its A100 and V100 partitions are separate. Primary source · 2024-03-28

Operates Jean Zay at IDRIS. The extension procured with GENCI added 1,456 H100 GPUs and was inaugurated on 13 May 2025.

Inria——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-09-16

Participates in AI Factory France’s research and industry consortium.

  • Programme-level disclosure
CEA——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-09-16

Participates in AI Factory France, whose planned public computing access includes Joliot-Curie at TGCC.

  • Programme-level disclosure
CINES——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-09-16

Hosts Adastra, one of the public supercomputers included in AI Factory France’s access programme.

  • Programme-level disclosure
AMIAD——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-09-16

Participates in the AI Factory France consortium.

  • Programme-level disclosure
France Universités——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-09-16

Represents universities in the AI Factory France consortium.

  • Programme-level disclosure
HubFranceIA——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-09-16

Participates in the AI Factory France consortium.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Mission French Tech——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-09-16

Participates in the AI Factory France consortium.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Station-F——CommissionedPrimary source · 2025-09-16

Participates in the AI Factory France consortium.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Eviden——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-03-28

Supplies and integrates the Jean Zay extension: 1,456 H100 GPUs in 14 BullSequana XH3000 racks, under the contract with GENCI and CNRS.

  • Programme-level disclosure
Mistral AI—NVIDIA Grace BlackwellAnnouncedPrimary source · 2025-06-11

Launched Mistral Compute in June 2025 with NVIDIA, offering infrastructure from GPU servers to managed AI services. The launch planned tens of thousands of GPUs.

  • Announcement before tender
  • Programme-level disclosure
Bpifrance——AnnouncedPrimary source · 2025-05-19

Co-founded the Paris-region AI campus joint venture with MGX, Mistral AI and NVIDIA in May 2025. The project targets 1.4 GW, with construction expected from the second half of 2026.

  • Announcement before tender
  • Programme-level disclosure
MGX——AnnouncedPrimary source · 2025-05-19

Co-founded the Paris-region AI campus joint venture with Bpifrance, Mistral AI and NVIDIA in May 2025.

  • Announcement before tender
  • Programme-level disclosure
NVIDIA——AwardedPrimary source · 2025-06-11

Supplies Grace Blackwell systems for Mistral Compute and co-founded the separate Paris-region AI campus joint venture.

  • Programme-level disclosure
IA Cluster: PR[AI]RIE – PSAI——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Université Paris Sciences et Lettres; awarded €75M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

IA Cluster: MIAI Cluster——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Université Grenoble Alpes; awarded €70M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

IA Cluster: Hi! PARIS Cluster 2030——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Institut Polytechnique de Paris; awarded €70M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

IA Cluster: PostGenAI@PARIS——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Sorbonne Université; awarded €35M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

IA Cluster: ENACT——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Université de Lorraine; awarded €30M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

IA Cluster: DATAIA-Cluster——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Université Paris-Saclay; awarded €20M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

IA Cluster: ANITI IA Cluster——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Université de Toulouse; awarded €20M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

IA Cluster: 3IA Côte d'Azur 2030——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Université Côte d’Azur; awarded €20M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

IA Cluster: SequoIA——AwardedPrimary source · 2024-05-28

Led by Université de Rennes; awarded €20M under France 2030’s research and training cluster programme announced in May 2024.

### External dependence NVIDIA hardware: High · US technology: Medium. These are editorial assessments based on the programme’s procurement disclosures. Named partners: GENCI, Eviden (Atos), CNRS, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Mistral AI, ASML, SoftBank. 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. ### Data-quality caveats on this record · 11 - ANR identifies a €2.5B national AI strategy budget under France 2030, which also funds research and training. - 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 dollar figures convert the €2.5B France 2030 budget at US$1.0879 per euro on 28 May 2024, ANR’s publication date, from the Federal Reserve’s H.10 series distributed by FRED. SoftBank’s component below uses a different, later rate. ### The evidence trail 17 cited sources - [SoftBank: proposed French data-centre investment and first-phase scope, May 2026](https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20260531_0) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [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) — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-09-08 - [NVIDIA: Mistral Compute deployment plan, campus partnership and French computing customers, June 2025](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/france-sovereign-ai-infrastructure/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [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) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [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) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [Official Élysée AI Action Summit page](https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia) — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28 - [CSIS: AI Action Summit investment announcements](https://www.csis.org/analysis/frances-ai-action-summit) — Research database · accessed 2026-03-28 - [Data Centre Dynamics: Eviden contract details](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/eviden-to-upgrade-frances-jean-zay-supercomputer-with-nvidia-h100-gpus/) — Press or analyst · accessed 2026-03-28 - [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/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [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) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [GENCI: AI Factory France consortium and planned computing access, September 2025](https://www.genci.fr/en/news/what-ai-factory-france) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [Mistral AI: launch of its computing service and NVIDIA partnership, June 2025](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-compute) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [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) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [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/) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [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) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [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) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 - [Élysée: February 2025 infrastructure investment announcements and Franco-Emirati framework](https://www.elysee.fr/admin/upload/default/0001/17/d9c1462e7337d353f918aac7d654b896b77c5349.pdf) — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08 Machine access The same record, machine-readable: the [evidence-trail feed](https://scrutica.com/sovereign-ai/program/sovereign-fr/feed.xml) and the [derivation-chain export](https://scrutica.com/api/sovereign-programs/derivation-chain/fr).