Fouju data-center debate Developer disputes heat risk

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France 2 examines the proposed Campus IA data center in Fouju: eleven buildings on ninety hectares of farmland and a stated €50 billion cost, illustrated with an explicitly AI-generated reconstruction. Residents Évelyne Michel and Martine Goncalvez fear pollution, electricity demand and an added heat island, with the report citing a U.S. study's two-degree estimate. Developer Thibaud Desfossés disputes that estimate, citing an internal study of less than half a degree at the boundary and promising to make waste heat available to households and industry. Opponents remain unconvinced and have filed challenges. Daisy Luczak supports prospective jobs and tax revenue. These disputed environmental claims and projected benefits remain attributed.

Campus IA developer Thibaud Desfossés publicly disputed residents' concern that the Fouju data-center project would create a two-degree heat island. Citing an internal study, he claimed less than half a degree of warming at the site boundary and pledged to pipe waste heat there for household and industrial use. France 2 also gives the residents' environmental objections and says opponents remain unconvinced. Neither estimate nor successful heat reuse is independently established; the interview date is unknown.