The story behind
The European Cloud
Something fundamental is shifting in how the world competes. For decades, digital infrastructure was treated as a commodity, sourced wherever it was most convenient. European businesses, governments and institutions built their operations on platforms controlled by a handful of companies headquartered far beyond European borders.
It worked well enough. Until it didn't.
Today, the cloud is not just infrastructure. It is the foundation on which AI is built, on which industries are transformed and on which strategic advantage is won or lost. And Europe, despite its deep reserves of engineering talent, industrial strength and scientific capability, finds itself dependent on non-European platforms to run its most sensitive workloads, train its most important models and operate its most critical services.
This is not a technical problem. It is a structural one, and it demands a structural answer.
evroc was founded to provide that.
The platform
Europe's first true hyperscaler
Founded in 2022 and backed by leading European investors EQT Ventures, Norrsken VC, Giant Ventures and blisce, evroc is building what Europe has never had: a cloud and AI services platform designed, owned and operated entirely under European jurisdiction, with no foreign control planes, no external software dependencies and no back doors that Europe didn't build itself.
Many so-called sovereign clouds are, in practice, foreign software running on European hardware. When the legal or geopolitical climate shifts, the kill-switch sits elsewhere. evroc is built differently. Every layer of the stack, infrastructure, software and services, is under exclusive European ownership and control. That is what sovereignty actually means.
The platform launched in 2025 and is already serving clients in the sectors where the stakes are highest: regulated industries, public institutions, defence organisations and operators of critical national infrastructure.
What we offer
Modern cloud performance. Uncompromised control.
evroc makes no concessions to legacy constraints. The platform is engineered for the demands of the AI era from the ground up, and it is not simply a defensive proposition.
It is an enabling one.
Sovereign by design
Complete control-plane autonomy. Data residency and operational governance remain in Europe, always, with zero dependencies on external software.
AI-native infrastructure
High-performance GPU compute, low-latency multi-zone architecture and scalable AI workload support, built for the most demanding environments.
Modern developer experience
Fully API-driven platform built on open-source foundations, supporting general enterprise applications through to advanced AI and mission-critical services.
Our journey
Key milestones
2022–2024
- Founded with a mission to build Europe's first hyperscaler.
- Presents plans to build Europe's first secure, sovereign and sustainable hyperscale cloud, putting an end to the foreign dominance of the European cloud market.
- Selects Stockholm for flagship data center, with the ambition to establish the facility as the epicenter for AI in Europe.
- Opens offices in the United Kingdom and France.
2025–2026
- Finalises land purchase in Stockholm, marking a key step for the flagship AI data center.
- Boosts Europe's competitiveness with first AI factory in France, pioneering next-generation hyperscale cloud and critical AI infrastructure.
- Raises largest tech Series A in the Nordics to accelerate European growth. Round was led by international investment firm blisce/ and joined by Giant Ventures. Existing backers EQT Ventures and Norrsken VC also participated.
- The European Cloud launches. Active cloud regions go live in Stockholm, Paris and Frankfurt, with redundant data centers and dedicated AI infrastructure in each.
- Partners with Blykalla and Studsvik to explore the development of Sweden's first nuclear-powered data centers.
- Joins a strategic partnership with SUSE, a global leader in enterprise open-source solutions, to deliver a European solution for cloud infrastructure and management.
- In 2026, evroc announces two initiatives aimed at strengthening European digital sovereignty: roc, an enterprise AI agent built for enterprise use cases, and evroc Think, a sovereign AI platform designed to help organisations run advanced AI workloads on European infrastructure.
Today
- Serving clients across mission-critical and regulated sectors. Building the infrastructure on which Europe's AI economy will run.
Why it matters
The window is narrow. The stakes are high.
The global race for AI capability is accelerating. Every quarter without a credible European cloud alternative is a quarter in which dependencies deepen and strategic options narrow. Cloud value resides in software, services and AI-driven applications, not physical infrastructure alone. Whoever controls the platform controls the ecosystem.
What evroc makes possible is not just compliance or data residency. It is the capacity for Europe to compete, in AI research, in industrial computing, in the development of the software ecosystems and platform capabilities that define where high-value economic activity concentrates in the decades ahead.
Hyperscale compute is where modern innovation economies are built.
Europe now has a path to build its own.
The European Cloud
