The chief executive officer of insurance company AXA SA, Thomas Buberl, didn’t mince words Tuesday about the severity of France’s debt problem as global bond yields rise and the country’s risk premium over Germany hits its highest level in more than a decade. He called for reforms to get public finances under control and said a proposal by the far left to cancel debt held at the central bank was “dangerous” and “play(ing) with fire.”

The rapid expansion of data centers has become one of the most tangible expressions of the artificial intelligence revolution. But debate about their environmental, economic and social impact threatens their future development. And rightly so. Although the digital economy is often seen as weightless, every cloud service and AI application depends on massive physical infrastructure that takes up land, consumes energy, uses water and requires ever-increasing investment.

Push for bank to grant exemptions for employees with longer commutes and one-off payments to cover rise in workers’ costs