The Cloud and AI Development Act sets out to triple European data centre capacity, and names its own obstacles: permitting, energy, land and financing. That is a five to seven year programme. Our geothermal campus in Kenya commissions in 2027, at a different energy price, and we are taking reservations now.
Plenty of providers will. We would rather be useful than flattering, so here is the boundary before the pitch.
A facility in Kenya is not an EU-sovereign option. Under the sovereignty framework in the Cloud and AI Development Act, it does not qualify for sensitive public-sector or regulated workloads, and we are not going to suggest otherwise to win a procurement round you would later have to unwind.
If your requirement is EU data residency for regulated data, buy that inside the EU. If your requirement is sustained compute at a workable energy price, on a timeline that exists, keep reading.
At scale, a GPU hour is mostly an electricity bill. European industrial power prices are among the highest in the world, and geothermal baseload from the Olkaria corridor is not exposed to the same market. That gap is the whole argument, and it does not depend on policy.
Tripling European capacity is a five to seven year programme against a permitting and grid backlog. Our modules are factory-built and ship on a rail corridor to the campus, with the first 400 kW Tier III module commissioning in 2027. That is a date, not a queue position.
For organisations reducing exposure to the US CLOUD Act, we are not a US-headquartered provider and not a regional zone of one. That is a statement about jurisdiction, and we are careful not to let it be read as a claim about EU sovereignty.
A 95% renewable mix generated where the compute runs. For teams whose own emissions reporting has to withstand a real audit, generated-clean is a materially different claim to offset-clean.
Not for anything you need running before 2027, not for regulated personal data under an EU residency obligation, not for latency-critical services to European users, and not for anything your compliance function has to certify as sovereign. Those belong in the EU, and we will say so on the call.
The comparison that decides this is arithmetic, not positioning. Send the workload and what it costs you today, and we will show our working.