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 cost calculator, where the cheapest and dearest published on-demand price for the identical H100 sit 5.6× apart.
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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