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# France's DGE and Business France publish a 63 site data centre siting guide
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-12-04-france-data-centre-siting-guide/
- Published: 2025-12-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T12:00:20.000Z
- Description: France's DGE and Business France published a siting guide naming 63 sites suited to data centres, with criteria and a fast track for projects of national interest. Ministers Lescure and Le Henanff presented it on 4 December 2025.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Policy and law, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [IT for Business, 4 December 2025](https://www.itforbusiness.fr/datacenters-en-france-letat-publie-un-guide-dimplantation-97861?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not commit public money, select an operator, or establish whether any site will host a European owned facility.

**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](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/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 2026-10-07\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)