France Télévisions has signed a partnership agreement with Scaleway to use the latter’s cloud computing services.

Scaleway has also signed a deal with GENCI and CNRS to advance AI development in Europe, signed up to the Nvidia DGX Cloud Lepton platform, and is set to soon launch in Italy and Sweden.

France Télévisions teams up with Scaleway

The French cloud service provider will offer its cloud platform to the France Télévisions group to host and process data related to its programs, including fiction, entertainment, and news.

Additionally, Scaleway will help France Télévisions develop the tools and services needed for France Télévisions’ streaming service to be hosted on the cloud platform.

Those tools will be based on Scaleway’s cloud-native and open-source technologies and will enable audiovisual content to be processed and broadcasted scalably, while ensuring that all data will be hosted in France.

Delphine Ernotte Cunci, president and CEO of France Télévisions, said: “Our partnership with Scaleway gives us the opportunity to get involved in the cloud ecosystem and to work together on developing solutions tailored to the needs of our media.

“By teaming up with a key French innovation player, France Télévisions is also actioning its commitment to tech sovereignty, which is a strategic priority for our group.”

Damien Lucas, CEO of Scaleway, added: “The announcement we’re making today is truly historic. France Télévisions – France’s leading audiovisual group – has chosen Scaleway as its strategic cloud partner. It’s a resounding illustration of how Europe can take back control of its data and technologies and shape its own digital future.”

France Télévisions is a known customer of the Thésée Datacenter, a Tier IV Uptime Institute Design-certified data center located in Aubergenville, France.

The data center was inaugurated in July 2021; at the time the site totaled one building with 6,000 sqm (64,500 sq ft) of floorspace across two rooms. The company aims to eventually build six data centers at the site. It has an operating PUE of 1.2 or under, utilizes free cooling, and is powered by 100 percent renewable energy from partner EDF.

France Télévisions has also previously worked with TVU Networks to help transition its content production workflows to the cloud since August 2023, according to a report from TVTechnology.

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Scaleway has also signed an agreement with GENCI and the CNRS to help advance AI development in Europe.

The three companies will create an environment that is technically compatible between public infrastructure, including GENCI’s Jean Zay supercomputer at IDRIS, the CNRS’s high-performance computing center, and Scaleway’s private AI clusters.

Additionally, users of said public infrastructure will be able to use Scaleway’s GPUs for overflow when resources are lacking.

Lucas said: “Some of our customers were helped by GENCI with their R&D work when they started out, before finding in Scaleway a partner capable of meeting their commercial needs on an appropriate scale. Through this partnership, we’re making this switch easier by enabling fast migration for a larger number of business, industrial, and research projects.”

Scaleway has also joined the Nvidia DGX Cloud Lepton platform, which connects GPUs from providers including CoreWeave, Crusoe, Firmus, Foxconn, GMI Cloud, Lambda, Nebius, Nscale, SoftBank Corp., and Yotta Data Services, and was announced in May 2025.

Finally, Scaleway has revealed it will soon be launching in Italy and Sweden.

Speaking on the swathe of announcements, CEO Lucas said they marked “a turning point” for Scaleway.

Lucas said: “By joining forces with key players such as France Télévisions, GENCI, and the CNRS, we’re further demonstrating our determination to build a trusted European cloud that’s capable of rivaling the global giants. Our expansion into Italy and Sweden is just one of our milestones, driven by our clear goal of becoming the number one tech champion for digital sovereignty in Europe.”

Scaleway purchased an Nvidia DGX SuperPod in September 2023 and has since purchased at least another 1,000 additional Nvidia H100 GPUs.

The company previously owned and operated several data centers in Paris, as well as offering services from facilities in Poland (Warsaw) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam). The data centers were spun out into a dedicated unit known as OpCore last year, along with several data centers from other Illiad-owned units. InfraVia has since agreed to acquire 50 percent of the OpCore unit.

Scaleway joined the Virt8ra European sovereign cloud offering sometime in Q1 of 2025. Virt8ra was launched in January 2025 as a testbed platform in collaboration between Arsys, BIT, the Gdańsk University of Technology, Infobip, Ionos, Kontron, Mondragon Corporation, and Oktawave. It was coordinated by OpenNebula Systems, an open-source cloud and Edge platform.