OVHcloud
Verified“Europe's most sovereign cloud — French-owned, French-built, French-run.”
- Listing
- Euronext Paris (OVH)
- Revenue (FY25)
- €1,084.6M
- Scale
- 1.6M customers, 44 DCs
- Employees
- ~3,074
88 = midpoint of Control 94 & Data 82
Sovereignty Quadrant
Control ↑ who owns & governs the company · Data → where your data lives. Every dot is a company — click to open it.
Every number below traces to 13 sourced facts across 8 independent sources, last verified 2026-06-12. 3 open questions hold confidence at 88% — they lower confidence, never the score.
Control ↑
Who legally and economically controls the company
Legal & Jurisdiction
95
Incorporated and operated entirely in France as OVH Groupe SA, registered in Roubaix and listed on Euronext Paris — fully within EU legal reach with no foreign parent.
Why 95? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
The group's parent, OVH Groupe SA, is a French société anonyme registered in Roubaix under SIREN 537 407 926.
Annuaire des Entreprises (French government registry) · as of 2025
OVHcloud went public in October 2021 on Euronext Paris under the ticker OVH and joined the SBF 120 index.
Wikipedia: OVHcloud · as of 2021-10
The registered office is 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France, with the company registered at the Lille Trade and Companies Register.
OVH Groupe Universal Registration Document 2021 · as of 2021
Control & Ownership
92
Voting control and economic majority both sit with the founding French Klaba family (82.0% votes, 81.3% capital); listing is EU (Euronext Paris). The only deduction is concentrated founder control and a small free float.
Why 92? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
As of June 2025 the Klaba family held 81.3% of share capital and 82.0% of voting rights.
OVHcloud official shareholding structure (June 2025) · as of 2025-06-23
Free float is 16.0% of capital and employees/executives hold 1.8%, leaving the family in clear majority control.
OVHcloud official shareholding structure (June 2025) · as of 2025-06-23
Founder Octave Klaba (French-Polish) returned as combined Chairman and CEO in October 2025, reinforcing family control.
Reuters via Investing.com · as of 2025-10-20
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
78
OVHcloud owns and builds its own datacenters and manufactures its own servers rather than reselling US hyperscaler capacity, and holds SecNumCloud 3.2 for Bare Metal Pod. Score is held below the 90s because it also runs datacenters in Canada and the US, and mainstream Public Cloud was not yet SecNumCloud-qualified as of mid-2025.
Why 78? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
OVHcloud operates 44 datacenters across 4 continents with over 500,000 servers, which it designs, manufactures and builds itself.
OVHcloud FY2025 annual results · as of 2025-10-21
OVHcloud's Bare Metal Pod platform obtained France's SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification (ANSSI) on 31 March 2025, positioned as protection against non-European regulations.
OVHcloud newsroom · as of 2025-03-31
OVHcloud runs datacenters outside the EU, including a flagship campus in Beauharnois (Quebec, Canada) and facilities in the US (Hillsboro OR, Vint Hill VA).
OVHcloud US datacenters page · as of 2025
As of mid-2025 the SecNumCloud qualification covered Bare Metal Pod only; OVHcloud planned to file for Public Cloud qualification in May 2025 targeting end-2025.
OVHcloud newsroom · as of 2025-03-31
Operations & People
88
Headquartered in Roubaix with a French founder-CEO, EUR reporting, and a workforce and revenue base concentrated in France and Europe (77% of revenue). Light deduction for ~23% of revenue and some staff/datacenters outside Europe.
Why 88? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
OVHcloud is headquartered in Roubaix, France, and reports financials in euros.
OVHcloud FY2025 annual results · as of 2025-10-21
In FY2025, France generated 48% of revenue, other European countries 29%, and the rest of the world 23% — i.e. 77% of revenue from Europe.
OVHcloud FY2025 annual results · as of 2025-10-21
The company employed roughly 3,074 people as of 2025.
Wikipedia: OVHcloud · as of 2025
Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →
What we don’t know
3 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
- ?
Did OVHcloud's mainstream Public Cloud achieve SecNumCloud qualification by end-2025 as targeted?
Determines whether sovereign assurances extend beyond Bare Metal Pod to its volume cloud services, materially affecting the infra score for typical users.
- ?
What share of stored customer data physically resides in EU datacenters versus its Canada/US sites?
EU customers can choose EU/SecNumCloud regions, but the global data-residency split is not publicly quantified, leaving CLOUD Act exposure for non-EU deployments unclear.
- ?
Exact current employee headcount and its geographic distribution.
Public figures range from ~2,800 (corporate site) to ~3,074-3,192; affects precision of the operations assessment, not its direction.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
The EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework / SecNumCloud target cloud providers specifically; this is an analogous sovereignty mapping for context, not a formal certification of OVHcloud.
Strategic
Founder-controlled French champion explicitly positioned as Europe's sovereign-cloud alternative to US hyperscalers.
Legal & jurisdictional
French SA, Euronext Paris listing, fully within EU/French legal reach with no foreign parent.
Data & AI
EU/SecNumCloud regions available and Bare Metal Pod is SecNumCloud 3.2 qualified, but it also operates non-EU (Canada/US) datacenters and Public Cloud qualification lagged.
Operational
HQ, founder-CEO, EUR reporting and most revenue and staff are in France and Europe.
Supply chain
Designs and manufactures its own servers and builds its own datacenters — vertically integrated, not dependent on hyperscaler capacity.
Technological
Proprietary infrastructure and water-cooling IP since 2003, though some hosted-private-cloud offerings rely on third-party (e.g. VMware) software stacks.
Security & compliance
ANSSI SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification (Bare Metal Pod), the EU's most demanding sovereign-cloud standard.
Environmental sustainability
Industrial-scale water cooling and circular server reuse; Smart Datacenter cuts water use up to 30% and cooling electricity up to 50%.
EU alternatives
One of the few at-scale EU clouds that owns its infrastructure and holds SecNumCloud; it is a benchmark, not a company to replace.
French cloud (Iliad group, Niel family) with EU datacenters; a credible sovereign peer for IaaS and managed services.
German-owned provider running its own datacenters in Germany and Finland; strong EU-sovereign alternative for compute and hosting.
How the method works
Methodology v2 (provisional): the score is the midpoint of two axes — Control (who owns and governs the company) and Data (where your data lives and who can reach it). Each axis is scored only on verified evidence; unknowns reduce confidence, never the score. Every input below is sourced; the weights and judgments are open to challenge.
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- 2026-06-12 — Initial golden profile, authored from primary sources (human + AI review).
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Verified 2026-06-12 · Human + AI joint review (sources independently checked) · Methodology