# Scaleway: physical AI company Canonical ID: `a546f041-124c-4435-8d1c-c9ba8935861c` ## Key facts - **Parent company:** Majority-owned subsidiary of Iliad Group (founded by [Xavier Niel](/people/xavier-niel.md)) - **GPU inventory:** 5,000+ GPUs available across fleet; disclosed Nabu 2023 supercluster is 1,016 Nvidia H100 SXM5 on InfiniBand NDR (400 Gb/s) - **Flagship cluster location:** Nabu hosted in PAR2 region's DC5 datacenter, adiabatic-cooled, 1.16 PUE - **Datacenter footprint:** Owned DCs in Paris region (DC2, DC3, DC4, DC5); 4 multi-AZ cloud regions across France, Poland, Italy, Netherlands; announced expansions in Sweden and Germany - **Named AI tenants:** Mistral AI (trained Mixtral on Nabu), Kyutai (Moshi voice model), Hugging Face, Free Pro - **EU sovereign cloud win:** Selected April 2026 as one of four providers under European Commission's 180M euro sovereign cloud framework for EU institutions - **Defense anchor tenant:** Airbus signed a multi-year deal in July 2026 to host sensitive industrial and defense applications on Scaleway - **Silicon partnerships:** Nvidia (H100 SXM5 with ConnectX-7 InfiniBand); H100/H200 SKUs listed in PAR-2 pricing catalog - **Public/private status:** Private; consolidated inside Iliad Group, which was taken private by [Xavier Niel](/people/xavier-niel.md) in 2021 - **Positioning:** Sovereign European cloud + AI provider; owns physical data centers; both training (Nabu supercluster) and inference SKUs; mid-market and public-sector rather than US hyperscale - **Announced hourly pricing:** Not disclosed on public page for H100/H200 in PAR-2; SKUs listed but rates gated behind zone selector/sales - **Slug:** scaleway - **Status:** active - **Founded:** 1999 - **HQ:** Paris, France ## Models _No models registered._ ## Current leadership (4) - [Jean-Baptiste Kempf](/people/jean-baptiste-kempf.md) CTO (_reported, not verified_) - [Xavier Niel](/people/xavier-niel.md) Founder (Iliad Group / Scaleway parent) (_reported, not verified_) - [Damien Lucas](/people/damien-lucas.md) CEO (_reported, not verified_) - [Aude Durand](/people/aude-durand.md) Chairperson (_reported, not verified_) ## Supplies to _No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._ _Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._ ## Common questions ### What is Scaleway? Scaleway is a French cloud and AI infrastructure operator, founded in 1999 by Xavier Niel as Online SAS and now a majority-owned subsidiary of the Iliad Group. Positioned as Europe's sovereign cloud alternative to the US hyperscalers, it runs its own data centers in the Paris region (DC2 through DC5), plus additional regions in Poland, Italy, and the Netherlands, and has publicly committed to launches in Sweden and Germany. Its distinguishing asset in the neocloud pack is that it owns the physical stack end to end, including DC5, a naturally cooled facility it markets as one of Europe's greenest at a 1.16 PUE.\n\nOn the AI side, Scaleway has built out named GPU superclusters branded Nabu and Jero. The company disclosed a 1,016-GPU Nabu 2023 cluster of Nvidia H100 SXM5 nodes on InfiniBand NDR, and states more than 5,000 GPUs are available across the fleet to customers. Early anchor tenants are the European foundation-model cohort: Mistral AI trained Mixtral on Nabu, and Kyutai, Hugging Face, and Iliad sibling Free Pro have used the clusters. That posture, sovereign French infrastructure plus a nameable roster of European labs, is how Scaleway differentiates from CoreWeave, Lambda, and the other US-centric GPU clouds.\n\nRecent momentum has come from the public sector. In April 2026 the European Commission selected Scaleway as one of four providers under a 180 million euro sovereign cloud framework for EU institutions, and in July 2026 Airbus signed a multi-year deal to host sensitive industrial and defense workloads on Scaleway. The company remains privately held inside Iliad Group (Euronext Paris parent was taken private by Niel in 2021) and does not disclose standalone revenue since its 2015 filings. ### What does Scaleway make? Scaleway has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Scaleway builds physical robots. ### Is Scaleway publicly traded? Scaleway is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of Iliad Group (founded by Xavier Niel on the DEPLOY registry. ### How can I invest in Scaleway? Scaleway has no separately traded stock; it is owned by Iliad Group (founded by Xavier Niel (the parent is the entity that trades, where it is public). ### Where is Scaleway headquartered? Scaleway is headquartered in Paris, France. ### Who owns Scaleway? Scaleway is owned by Iliad Group (founded by Xavier Niel, per the DEPLOY registry. ### Is Scaleway a top robotics company? On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Scaleway ranks in roughly the top 99% of companies tracked by the registry. ### When was Scaleway founded? Scaleway was founded in 1999. ## Sources (4) 1. https://www.scaleway.com/en/ai-supercomputers/ 2. https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ 3. https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/gpu/ 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway ## The verified answers - [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md) - [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md) - [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md) _API: GET /v1/companies/a546f041-124c-4435-8d1c-c9ba8935861c ยท canonical URL: /companies/scaleway_