Macron and Modi personally court tech CEOs to secure billions in AI infrastructure investments
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Walter Schulze
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are personally engaging with tech CEOs to secure massive AI infrastructure investments, bypassing traditional diplomatic channels. Their direct relationship-building approach has yielded tens of billions of dollars in AI data center commitments, demonstrating that personal rapport with executives can be more effective than policy alone in winning the global AI infrastructure race.
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bskyMacron and Modi personally court tech CEOs to secure billions in AI infrastructure investmentsstartupfortune.comKey quotes
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Both leaders have turned their diplomacy into a direct pitch to the people who control the purse strings.
It is paying off in tens of billions of dollars of AI infrastructure commitments.
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