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Alibaba AI Investment Push Raises Concerns Over French Digital Sovereignty

Alibaba's planned multibillion-dollar expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is raising concerns in Paris about the competitiveness of European cloud providers and the effectiveness of France's digital sovereignty strategy.
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