Soizig Le Bihan, 29, AI interpretability researcher, announced she's leaving Mistral AI in Paris to join Anthropic in San Francisco starting Monday. In a 5,365-character thread, she says the money matters (4X post-tax salary in SF vs. Paris after French state takes half in payroll/income/social taxes), but the real reason is France's pervasive degrowth ideology.
She recounts a January meeting at Bercy where Mistral delegation discussed AI sovereignty. When she proposed building training data centers in France, officials balked over 'carbon footprint' and 'the signal it would send' — despite France having the world's second-cleanest electricity via nuclear and modern data centers using less water than a Provence golf course. Four months later, Microsoft announced €4B investment in France — for inference centers serving models trained elsewhere. 'France, digital subcontractor to California.' She argues degrowth offshores pollution without reducing it, turning France into a 'museum hostess' while AI is built with or without them. 'Life is too short. The historical window is too narrow.'
The French already recognize the intended use of data centers is to build a data prison requiring each to pay for each electron of data you want or need to see
Soizig Le Bihan, 29, AI interpretability researcher, announced she's leaving Mistral AI in Paris to join Anthropic in San Francisco starting Monday. In a 5,365-character thread, she says the money matters (4X post-tax salary in SF vs. Paris after French state takes half in payroll/income/social taxes), but the real reason is France's pervasive degrowth ideology.
She recounts a January meeting at Bercy where Mistral delegation discussed AI sovereignty. When she proposed building training data centers in France, officials balked over 'carbon footprint' and 'the signal it would send' — despite France having the world's second-cleanest electricity via nuclear and modern data centers using less water than a Provence golf course. Four months later, Microsoft announced €4B investment in France — for inference centers serving models trained elsewhere. 'France, digital subcontractor to California.' She argues degrowth offshores pollution without reducing it, turning France into a 'museum hostess' while AI is built with or without them. 'Life is too short. The historical window is too narrow.'
SOURCE: https://x.com/Briviagra/status/2056975510731698188
I'm in IT. There's a lot about this AI movement that doesn't make sense, yet there is huge investment.
This leads me to believe we don't see the big picture because we're not being told everything.
Which leads me to believe that if we knew everything, we wouldn't be allowing it.
It looks like it's a parody account.
The French already recognize the intended use of data centers is to build a data prison requiring each to pay for each electron of data you want or need to see