neocloud · vm · Layer 2.5
DataCrunch
European teams wanting low-cost datacentre GPUs with a clean power story.
medium portability Movable with effort. Expect to redo images, storage wiring and networking.
What you are buying
- Business model
- Purpose-built GPU cloud. Owns or leases its own datacentre capacity and sells it directly.
- How you reach it
- You get virtual machines. The familiar cloud model.
- Accelerators
- H100, H200, B200, A100, V100
- Regions
- Finland, Iceland
- Pricing model
- Hourly and fixed-term contracts, published.
- Getting started
- Self-serve.
- Capacity
- Small but real; renewable-powered Nordic sites.
- Ownership
- Private.
Verified 2026-09-09. Fields reading “not published” are exactly that — we do not estimate a figure a vendor withholds.
The counterparty
Small European provider.
A multi-year GPU commitment is a credit decision wearing a cloud contract. This is the section no benchmark covers and the one that decides what happens to your workload in 2028.
The catch
Two-region footprint. Latency and redundancy are what you trade for the price.
The economics
Among the cheaper genuine-datacentre options in Europe.
No rate is quoted on this page on purpose. Published list prices at this layer move weekly and essentially nobody signing a real contract pays them. Dated, sourced figures live in the GPU rental price index, where the spread between the cheapest and dearest seller of the identical chip runs to roughly 9x.
The layers underneath this one
Whatever you rent here is a chip in a building that needs power. In 2026 megawatts, not silicon, are the binding constraint on the whole industry — a frontier rack draws 120–200 kW against a 2026 average near 27 kW, and the US interconnection queue exceeds 2,600 GW.
Layer 2 — Silicon · Layer 1 — Energy · The interconnection queue · Tokens per watt
Compared against
- Nscale vs DataCrunch — Nordic power economics at two very different scales.Compare with Nscale
- Hyperstack (NexGen Cloud) vs DataCrunch — The middle band: cheaper than hyperscalers, more accountable than marketplaces.Compare with Hyperstack (NexGen Cloud)
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