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As AI-driven data centres scale at unprecedented speed, France’s centralised nuclear system faces a new kind of pressure. Built for stability, not acceleration, the grid must now absorb volatile demand while digital sovereignty increasingly depends on physical energy control.
For decades, European banking has been built around a visible moment of decision. A credit was approved. A risk was accepted. An exception was granted. There was a point in time — and a person — at which responsibility could be located. Today, that moment is becoming harder to identify.
For decades, Europe built its digital world from the ground up. Fibre followed roads. Mobile masts followed population density. Connectivity was something engineers could point at — tangible, terrestrial and geographically bounded. When networks failed, the causes were usually visible: a storm, a cut cable, a damaged site. That mental model is no longer sufficient.
