United Arab Emirates Invests $50 Billion in France for Artificial Intelligence, Prioritizing Diplomatic Respect, Electric Stability, and Scientific Brains

A powerful, decarbonized, and human-controlled power grid due to its unique electro-nuclear capacity in the world. Diplomatic respect and stability towards its foreign allies. Brilliant scientific brains, some of which are in the best AI teams in Silicon Valley. France offers crucial qualities that are the main criteria to value and secure investments in AI.

The world is currently enduring a tsunami of aggressive pronouncements from President Donald Trump. One day, Canada should become the 51st state of the USA. The next day, the USA will annex the Panama Canal and Greenland. Then threats of 25% customs duties against its allies: Canadian and Mexican, and Europe. And finally, provocative declarations for the annexation of Gaza by the United States, the evacuation of its inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan, and a proposal to make it the "Riviera of the Middle East"!

But Donald Trump's escalade of dominance is sometimes hollow when one compare his triumphant announcement of January 21, 2025 of an investment of $500 billion in AI with the Stargate project, and a few days later the arrival of the super-efficient Chinese AI Deep Seek which caused a "stock market Pearl-Harbor" in New York with $1,000 billion in capitalization losses as of January 28, including $600 billion for the NVIDIA company alone.

At Meta (Facebook - Instagram - Whatsapp) the head of AI is the French Yann LeCun who founded in 2013 the Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research, welcoming many French PhDs, then a school in Paris in 2015, and the developer of Llama is the French Thomas Scialom based in Paris. The founders of the French company Mistral, in the world's leading AI ranks, previously worked at Google's DeepMind and at Meta. The universities of Paris-Saclay compete with the American MIT and Stanford in fundamental mathematics and physics, optics and lasers, quantum, AI, supported in particular by a dozen Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals.

The recent fires that have ravaged areas of Los Angeles reveal the dangerous quality of the American electrical grid responsible for the outbreak of fires, and the huge disasters that are hitting the USA, hurricanes with submersion by the sea, tornadoes, droughts, are causing hundreds of billions of dollars of damage.

On the contrary, France's temperate climate, the high quality of its electricity grid and its powerful electricity production with its 57 nuclear reactors which have even allowed it to export 89 TerraWattHour in 2024 and gain 5 billion euros, offer a secure supply for data centers. And the government offers 35 operational sites for data centers, from 18 to more than 150 hectares, for a total of 1,200 hectares.

Within the European market of 449 million consumers, France is now the first technological and diplomatic ally essential for entering the global AI map.