neocloud · vm · Layer 2.5
Scaleway
EU-sovereignty requirements where the supplier being European is the actual requirement.
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, L40S, L4, plus Ascend and other non-NVIDIA options
- Regions
- France, Netherlands, Poland
- Pricing model
- Hourly, published, EU-billed.
- Getting started
- Credit card.
- Capacity
- Moderate.
- Ownership
- Iliad Group (public parent).
Verified 2026-09-09. Fields reading “not published” are exactly that — we do not estimate a figure a vendor withholds.
The counterparty
Backed by a large European telecoms group — materially different from a venture-funded pure-play.
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
Smaller GPU catalogue than the specialists, and the console assumes you are a general cloud customer.
The economics
Priced to compete in Europe. Sovereignty is the product; the GPU rate is secondary.
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
- OVHcloud vs Scaleway — European sovereignty from a public host against a telecoms-backed one.Compare with OVHcloud
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