(From L) Chief Strategy Officer of the Orange Group Jérôme Berger, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Artefact Vincent Luciani, General Manager of Bull Emmanuel Le Roux, Head of Infrastructure Europe Ardian Benoît Gaillochet, Chief Operating Officer of Scaleway Albane Bruyas, CEO of the Iliad Group Thomas Reynaud and CEO of Scaleway Damien Lucas pose following a press conference to announce the creation of a consortium to support the bid for an European AI Gigafactory in France, in Paris on May 20, 2026. Named "AION," the consortium of 28 companies will submit a French proposal in response to a call for tenders from the European Commission, which is expected to be published shortly, with the aim of creating in Europe a handful of mega computing infrastructure projects that are essential for the development of AI. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP via Getty Images)