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French lawmakers adopt amendment taxing digital data transfers at €0.055 per GB

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French National Assembly deputies have adopted an amendment that would tax digital data producers €0.055 per gigabyte transmitted, according to a PulseMonde report.

The stated aim is up to €10 billion per year. The report says major digital services such as Netflix, YouTube, cloud services and downloadable games could be affected, with a risk that the cost is passed on to consumers.

A post by Dongxi NLP applies the rate to open-source AI models. It says DeepSeek's 510 GB V4.1-Flash-1017 model, released under the MIT license on Hugging Face, would cost Hugging Face €28 in tax for each French user who downloads it. The post describes this as the proposal's effect, based on the per-gigabyte rate; the report itself does not mention AI models.

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    France's proposed data tax would charge €0.055 per GB, hitting open-source model downloads

    AIThe main post says France's proposed data tax would charge €0.055 per gigabyte transferred. It gives the example of DeepSeek's 510 GB V4.1-Flash-1017 model, released under the MIT license on Hugging Face, and says Hugging Face would owe €28 in tax for each French user who downloads it. The quoted PulseMonde post reports that French lawmakers adopted an amendment taxing digital data producers at €0.055 per GB, with a stated goal of up to €10 billion per year.

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