PARIS (CN) — Wissous, a 7,151-resident town roughly an hour south of Paris, resembles any other French commune; a 12th century church anchors playgrounds and tennis courts, steps away from residential buildings and daycares. Less common is the backdrop: a fenced-off, unmarked 592,000 square-foot data center.
The center is owned by CyrusOne, an American company whose largest client is Amazon Web Services. It arrived quietly six years ago, without consulting local residents, despite an initial thermal capacity of 19.8 megawatts — roughly equivalent to 20,000 space heaters running at once.
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