associated with the deployment<\/strong> of data centers in France<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n
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\nFriday, November 13, 2026<\/strong>
\nCampus des Grands Moulins \u00e0 Paris
\nCondorcet Building, 4 rue Elsa Morante \u2013 75013 Paris
\nroom 454A<\/p>\nThe event is held in French.
\nRegistration is free but required for access. Please register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
9:00 a.m.: \u201cFrom the dot-com bubble to the AI boom: the physical and political trajectory of data centers in France\u201d,<\/em> Cl\u00e9ment Marquet<\/strong>\u00a0(Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris -PSL, UMR 9217)<\/p>\nOver the past two years, as investment in data centers has reached unprecedented levels, many countries have been working to attract investment in infrastructure dedicated to generative artificial intelligence technologies. This competition has led to the transformation of governmental mechanisms governing data center deployment and an increase in local conflict. To understand the ramifications of the \u201cAI moment\u201d on regions and public policy, this paper examines the material history of data center deployments and protests in Plaine Commune and Marseille, as well as the recent convergence of French government policies aimed at securing investment.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n11:00 a.m.: \u201cUnderstanding and Governance of Data Centers\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nPanel discussion featuring contributions from:<\/p>\n
\n- Beno\u00eet Petit<\/strong>\u00a0(co-founder of Hubblo.org)\u00a0: DCWatch<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> a collaborative observatory designed to measure the environmental impact of data centers in France.<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Gianluca Marzilli<\/strong>\u00a0(Institut Paris Region): the Data Center Observatory<\/a><\/strong> in the \u00cele-de-France region<\/li>\n
- A local government representative (to be confirmed): How to respond to the surge in data centers?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The DC_Risk_City Interdisciplinary Research Project<\/h3>\n
The DC_Risk_City project examines the socio-ecological functioning of data centers and the multifactorial risks associated with their implementation from the perspective of resilient, resource-efficient cities. The project questions the metabolic footprint of these critical digital infrastructures, the factors that drive their industrial and financialized production and operation, and the geopolitics of their multilevel governance. The project takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining social sciences and engineering to conduct multiscale analyses that incorporate various territorial configurations. The project promotes dialogue between science and society and includes an online platform and forward-looking workshops. This research is co-funded by the<\/em> PEPR Villes Durables et B\u00e2timents Innovants<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"DC_RISK_CITY-Research-Project\"](\"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DC_RISK_CITY-Research-Project.jpg\")
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\nFriday, November 13, 2026<\/strong>
\nCampus des Grands Moulins \u00e0 Paris
\nCondorcet Building, 4 rue Elsa Morante \u2013 75013 Paris
\nroom 454A<\/p>\n
The event is held in French. <\/p>\n 9:00 a.m.: \u201cFrom the dot-com bubble to the AI boom: the physical and political trajectory of data centers in France\u201d,<\/em> Cl\u00e9ment Marquet<\/strong>\u00a0(Center for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines Paris -PSL, UMR 9217)<\/p>\n Over the past two years, as investment in data centers has reached unprecedented levels, many countries have been working to attract investment in infrastructure dedicated to generative artificial intelligence technologies. This competition has led to the transformation of governmental mechanisms governing data center deployment and an increase in local conflict. To understand the ramifications of the \u201cAI moment\u201d on regions and public policy, this paper examines the material history of data center deployments and protests in Plaine Commune and Marseille, as well as the recent convergence of French government policies aimed at securing investment.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 11:00 a.m.: \u201cUnderstanding and Governance of Data Centers\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Panel discussion featuring contributions from:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DC_Risk_City project examines the socio-ecological functioning of data centers and the multifactorial risks associated with their implementation from the perspective of resilient, resource-efficient cities. The project questions the metabolic footprint of these critical digital infrastructures, the factors that drive their industrial and financialized production and operation, and the geopolitics of their multilevel governance. The project takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining social sciences and engineering to conduct multiscale analyses that incorporate various territorial configurations. The project promotes dialogue between science and society and includes an online platform and forward-looking workshops. This research is co-funded by the<\/em> PEPR Villes Durables et B\u00e2timents Innovants<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n ses 1\u00e8res Rencontres scientifiques sur les risques multifactoriels associ\u00e9s au d\u00e9ploiement des data centres en France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23781,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[159],"class_list":["post-23785","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-conferences-en","cat_conferences-en","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/23785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/23785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23785"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i3-cnrs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=23785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRegistration is free but required for access. Please register here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
The DC_Risk_City Interdisciplinary Research Project<\/h3>\n
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