Par
Corinne Gallier
Published on
Jan 11, 2025 at 5:14 p.m.
During your greetings on Monday, you mentioned the Region’s desire to be a leader in artificial intelligence and to host data centers in three or four points in the territory. Could the Channel be affected?
Yes. Given the space still available and especially given its carbon-free energy potential, the Channel is one of the strategic locations for developing such investments. We are currently working with a certain number of intermunicipalities to position an offer in this department. I would like to point out that behind this, there is an entire ecosystem of laboratories and research centers nearby, with gigantic economic spinoff potential. These are investments of several billion euros which are carried by companies around the world, the United States in particular. France is extremely well positioned to host such activities and in particular Normandy thanks to its energy potential, because you should know that artificial intelligence is very consuming.
Another subject, Orano’s Downstream of the Future program which plans to renew its spent fuel processing and recycling plants by 2040-2050. What role does the Region intend to play?
The Region will have the same challenge as in Penly. We will have to create a mobilization across the entire territory with the same enthusiasm that we experience in Dieppe. For us, the Region, it is the whole issue of training, hence the strategic nature of the opening of Ecam and the development of Esix in Cherbourg. These two schools will be able to provide part of the 2,000 engineers the project will need.
In a completely different register, we have devoted in our columns a file on private colleges which have installed video surveillance inside the establishments. What about at the high school level?
There have been no requests and at this stage, and there is no program on this topic as such. For the record, in 2015, when we indicated that we would offer video surveillance outside, we were called fascists by certain teaching unions. Given this opposition, we had put each establishment before its responsibilities, since it was optional, and each had its board of directors deliberate. The mayor’s agreement was also required. I note that since then, many establishments have equipped themselves. If a high school wanted video surveillance inside, the same process would have to be taken.
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