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Châteauroux council approves selling 195 hectares of land to Google for data centre

Châteauroux Métropole's council approved selling 195 hectares of land to Google subsidiary Tricolore Computing for EUR 58.5 million, to host Google's first owned French data centre campus. The compromise must be signed within a year.

Reported Editor-read France 3 Centre-Val de Loire (France Télévisions), 23 June 2025

What it does not test. This does not establish that Google will finalise the purchase or build the campus, which depend on further studies and the final signature.

How this item counts. This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the European Sovereignty Index.

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-20. How the record is made

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