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Morrison backs $5.9 billion French datacentre venture with Orange

Infrastructure company Morrison has signed a deal with Orange to form a 50/50 French datacentre venture backed by $5.9 billion in investment.

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Morrison has signed an exclusivity deal with Orange to form a 50/50 French datacentre venture, with a planned $5.9 billion investment and target capacity of 400 megawatts. The venture will combine five existing Orange datacentres across four French campuses with Morrison's infrastructure investment expertise. The partners describe the venture as a sovereign European platform for cloud and artificial intelligence workloads.

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Morrison backs $5.9 billion French datacentre venture with Orange as AI demand surges

Infrastructure heavyweight Morrison has signed an exclusivity deal with Orange to form a 50/50 French datacentre venture, backed by a planned $5.9 billion investment and targeting capacity of 400 megawatts. The venture would combine five existing Orange datacentres across four…

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