Lacroix: Mistral AI's new data center is located south of Paris
Timothée LeCroix · Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI · Feb 12, 2026 · at 5:17
Timothée Lacroix, CTO and co-founder of Mistral AI, provides a status update on the construction of Mistral Compute, the company's European sovereign data center project.
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“The building of the facility has progressed quite well. It's in the south of Paris, and we are right now running through the stabilization stabilization of the first trench.”
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