François Ruffin
Science, digital and communications
24 documented positions: from their programme first, then their campaign, their party and earlier texts.
Campaign proposal or statement : 24
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Regulate data centres through local heat recovery and a democratically determined electricity-consumption ceiling.
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Include sovereign cloud, data mining, AI models, cyberdefence, search engines, semiconductors and submarine cables among priority digital examples.
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Create a digital-commons organisation to select and oversee priority open-source components with public, private and community actors, driven by public IT procurement.
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Reform SecNumCloud to exclude mixed French–US consortia and reserve certification for entities governed by European law.
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Gradually require fully European SecNumCloud services for government and then defence, transport, banking and health sectors.
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Refocus the research tax credit on industrial SMEs and mid-sized firms and make it conditional on job location.
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Participate in the European Chips Act 2 and combine guaranteed orders with targeted public stakes in semiconductors, including power electronics.
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Regulate data-centre siting by prioritising French groups in which the state holds equity.
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Set a capped share of electricity for digital uses in the national low-carbon strategy, determined by an informed randomly selected citizens’ assembly; the plan sets no numerical share.
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Require non-critical computing tasks to pause during national demand peaks, starting with AI-model training.
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Make permits conditional on mandatory heat recovery and full funding of the recovery chain, including networks, removing the exemption where no nearby network exists.
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For projects exceeding fifty hectares or one hundred megawatts, aggregating linked projects, remove major-national-interest status for data centres and restore municipal planning powers.
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Give the host municipality binding approval over planning changes enabling these large projects, or alternatively a reasoned suspensive veto; a state override would require a national-interest justification.
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Require national public-debate referral at the first territorial commitment to a large project and freeze irreversible actions while debating whether it should proceed.
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Publish the complete file before deliberation and give it simultaneously to all relevant elected representatives, allowing at least several weeks to read it; no exact interval is fixed.
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Fund independent counter-expertise through the developer’s contribution to a common fund and conduct one environmental assessment of linked projects.
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Declare the project in a single classified-installation file to prevent site fragmentation and avoidance of risk thresholds.
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Consult residents before a final decision and assess results municipality by municipality; a negative vote requires reconsideration and activates the municipal suspensive veto, rather than an absolute popular veto here.
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Propose an amendment before 2027 to Senator David Ros’s bill turning municipal consultation into an effective suspensive veto.
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Make SecNumCloud effectively mandatory for state data, vital sectors and essential operators, and strengthen qualification beyond data control to favour sovereign French and European industry.
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Require European capital for centres established in France and seek European funding rules ensuring real sovereignty; no precise ownership percentage is given.
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Propose an immediate five-year moratorium on non-sovereign data-centre projects and public debates on existing projects with reliable information.
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Create action-research programmes combining landscape, hydrology, ecology, forestry, emergency services, local government and social sciences to address fires, drought and heat together.
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Target the research credit more closely at small and medium-sized and mid-sized firms, condition benefits on remaining in the EU and change thresholds; stated savings are three billion euros from 2027.
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