Scaleway
Verified“A genuinely European cloud, on American silicon.”
- Ownership
- ~96% Iliad
- Listing
- Private
- EU regions
- 4 live
- Revenue
- ~103M euro (FY22)
86 = midpoint of Control 91 & Data 80
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. 4 open questions hold confidence at 82% — they lower confidence, never the score.
Control ↑
Who legally and economically controls the company
Legal & Jurisdiction
92
Incorporated and operated as a French SAS in Paris, fully within EU/French jurisdiction with no foreign parent shielding it from EU law.
Why 92? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Scaleway operates as a French Societe par Actions Simplifiee registered with RCS Paris under SIREN 433 115 904.
Scaleway Legal Notice · as of 2026-06-12
Its registered office is 8 rue de la Ville-l'Eveque, 75008 Paris, France, with VAT number FR 35 433115904.
Scaleway Legal Notice · as of 2026-06-12
Scaleway states its platform operates solely under European jurisdiction with data localization based within Europe, positioning itself as immune to non-EU interference.
Scaleway (Italy region launch) · as of 2026
Control & Ownership
90
Roughly 96% owned by Iliad SA, a French group taken fully private by French founder Xavier Niel in 2021; both voting control and economics are French, with no public listing.
Why 90? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Scaleway is a majority-owned subsidiary of the Iliad group, founded by Xavier Niel, and is reported as roughly 96% owned by Iliad.
Wikipedia: Scaleway · as of 2026
Xavier Niel's holding vehicle HoldCo II reached 96.46% of Iliad SA's capital and Iliad was delisted from Euronext Paris on 14 October 2021, taking the parent fully private.
Wikipedia: Iliad SA · as of 2021-10-14
Scaleway publicly describes itself as 100% European-owned, ensuring immunity from non-EU interference.
Scaleway (Italy region launch) · as of 2026
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
74
Scaleway runs its own orchestration software on EU data centres it controls, but those centres are now held via Opcore, 50% sold to fund InfraVia, and AI compute leans heavily on US-made Nvidia GPUs.
Why 74? 4 sourced facts · click to expand
Scaleway operates EU cloud regions in France (Paris), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Poland (Warsaw) and Italy (Milan), with Sweden and Germany planned, all within Europe.
Scaleway (Italy region launch) · as of 2026
The data centres are operated by Opcore, a former Scaleway unit; Iliad closed a deal selling 50% of Opcore (EV ~860M euro) to EU infrastructure fund InfraVia, completed April 2025.
iliad Group / InfraVia press release · as of 2025-04-03
Scaleway sells Nvidia H100 GPU instances hosted in Europe (Paris and Warsaw), meaning its AI compute layer depends on US-manufactured Nvidia silicon.
Scaleway H100 SXM · as of 2026
For its HDS health-data offering Scaleway guarantees no transfer of personal health data outside France and no access from outside the European Economic Area.
Scaleway Security & Resilience · as of 2026
Operations & People
90
Paris-headquartered with a French CEO, teams stated to be 100% in Europe, and reporting consolidated in euros within French parent Iliad.
Why 90? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Damien Lucas is CEO of Scaleway, having succeeded Yann Lechelle, and the company is headquartered in Paris.
Wikipedia: Scaleway · as of 2026
Scaleway states 100% of its teams are based in Europe and ~90% of its infrastructure providers are European vendors.
Scaleway (Italy region launch) · as of 2026
Scaleway's results are consolidated into French parent Iliad SA, which reported 10.35bn euro group revenue for 2025 in euro reporting.
iliad Group FY2025 results · as of 2026-03-24
Aligned to the EU Commission’s official Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL, Jun 2026) →
What we don’t know
4 open questions — they lower confidence, never the score
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What is Scaleway's current standalone revenue and headcount?
Scaleway is consolidated into Iliad and not reported as a distinct segment; the ~103M euro (FY2022) and ~500-650 employee figures come from third-party aggregators of varying reliability.
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After the InfraVia deal, who exercises day-to-day control over the Opcore data centres Scaleway runs on?
Opcore is now 50% Iliad / 50% InfraVia; both are EU entities, but the change dilutes Iliad's sole control of the physical infrastructure layer underpinning Scaleway.
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When (or whether) will Scaleway actually obtain SecNumCloud qualification?
It entered the process in Jan 2025 targeting end-2025 but is still not qualified as of June 2026; the qualification would materially strengthen its proven immunity-from-foreign-law claim for sensitive workloads.
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How much of Scaleway's stack (GPUs, networking, core software) is non-EU?
Heavy reliance on US Nvidia GPUs and likely other US-origin components is a supply-chain dependency that sovereignty marketing tends to understate.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
The EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework (SEAL) is a procurement assessment scheme aimed at cloud providers; the category rows here are an analogous orientation mapping, not an actual SEAL certification or score awarded to Scaleway.
Strategic
Privately-held French parent (Iliad/Xavier Niel), no foreign owner; explicitly positioned as a European sovereign-cloud alternative to US hyperscalers.
Legal & jurisdictional
French SAS, RCS Paris, operates solely under EU/French jurisdiction with no US parent; no extraterritorial corporate control. SecNumCloud not yet obtained.
Data & AI
Customer data localized in EU regions; ISO 27001:2022 and HDS health-data certified. AI/GPU layer runs in-EU but on US Nvidia hardware.
Operational
Paris HQ, French CEO, teams stated 100% in Europe; reporting in euro consolidated into Iliad.
Supply chain
~90% European vendors by Scaleway's own claim, but core compute depends on US-made Nvidia GPUs and likely other US-origin components.
Technological
Develops its own orchestration software and runs on data centres it controls (via Opcore), rather than reselling a US hyperscaler.
Security & compliance
Holds ISO 27001:2022 and HDS; SecNumCloud qualification is still in process (since Jan 2025) and not yet awarded as of June 2026.
Environmental sustainability
Publishes an annual Impact Report and operates an adiabatic free-cooling DC5; full independent verification not assessed here.
EU alternatives
Larger French cloud peer, Euronext Paris-listed with founding Klaba family retaining control; owns its own data centres and servers. A comparable EU-sovereign option rather than a replacement, since Scaleway is itself a strong choice.
German privately-owned provider running its own data centres in Germany and Finland; strong EU jurisdiction and economics, though a narrower managed/PaaS feature set than Scaleway.
German cloud/hosting provider (United Internet group) listed in Frankfurt; solid EU footprint, but part-owned by external investors including US private-equity exposure historically, so control is less clean than Scaleway's.
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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