Question 11719 — businesses

Summary

Mr. Philippe Juvin draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty to the proposed sale of the company Exaion, a subsidiary of EDF specializing in trusted cloud, high-performance computing and blockchain infrastructures, to the American company Marathon Digital Holdings, a major player in Bitcoin mining. According to information made public, the contract The transfer would provide for a non-competition clause for a period of twenty-four months prohibiting EDF from developing or providing similar high-performance computing services, including Bitcoin mining. Such a clause would have the effect of preventing the public company from positioning itself in a segment that the Government recently described as an “extremely strategic activity” and would lead to entrusting it to a foreign actor. part of the flexibility and security of the French electricity network. While certain estimates indicate that, if these capacities were exploited directly by EDF or by French partners, the economic opportunity could ultimately represent several billion euros per year, he wishes to know the Government's analysis of the risks likely to be generated by this transfer project for sovereignty energy, digital and financial of France, as well as the guarantees that the Government intends to provide in terms of governance, data localization and infrastructure control. It would also like to be informed of the Government's intentions regarding a possible suspension or possible conditioning of this operation, in order to allow the study of alternative solutions allowing EDF and the stakeholders French to maintain control of these strategic activities.

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