Palantir
Verified“American intelligence-tech firm — maximally foreign to EU.”
- Listing
- Nasdaq: PLTR
- FY2025 revenue
- $4.475B
- Employees
- 4,429
- US gov revenue
- $1.86B
10 = midpoint of Control 8 & Data 11
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 12 sourced facts across 10 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
10
Incorporated in Delaware and operated from Denver, Colorado — a wholly US-domiciled entity. As a US company it is subject to the CLOUD Act, which can compel data disclosure regardless of where data is stored, directly conflicting with EU law.
Why 10? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Palantir Technologies Inc. is incorporated in Delaware with principal executive offices in Denver, Colorado.
Palantir FY2025 Form 10-K (SEC EDGAR, FY2024 cover comparable) · as of 2025-12-31
As a US-domiciled provider, Palantir is exposed to the US CLOUD Act, which lets US authorities compel access to data held by American firms even when stored in the EU, conflicting with GDPR.
Wire — What the CLOUD Act Really Means for EU Data Sovereignty · as of 2026
Germany's Bundeswehr rejected Palantir for a military cloud-AI project in favour of European alternatives, citing sovereignty concerns.
TechCrunch — Europe's efforts to ditch US software for sovereign tech · as of 2026-04-27
Control & Ownership
6
Permanent US-founder voting control via Class F super-voting shares (held by a Karp/Cohen/Thiel voting trust, pegged near 49.999999% of votes) combined with a Nasdaq listing and overwhelmingly US economic base. No EU voting or economic interest.
Why 6? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
All Class F shares are held by a voting trust of founders Karp, Cohen and Thiel, whose votes adjust to keep them at roughly 49.999999% of total voting power.
Palantir Form 424B4 IPO prospectus (SEC EDGAR) · as of 2020-09-30
Palantir trades on the Nasdaq under ticker PLTR and is a member of the S&P 500.
TradingView — NASDAQ:PLTR · as of 2026-06
Palantir's market capitalisation was roughly $300 billion in mid-2026, anchored in US public markets and US shareholders.
CompaniesMarketCap — Palantir · as of 2026-06
Data →
Where your data lives and who can reach it
Data & Infrastructure
10
No EU-owned infrastructure. Palantir runs on US hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and is purpose-built for US government classified environments with DISA IL5/IL6 accreditation; all of this sits under US legal reach via the CLOUD Act.
Why 10? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
The Palantir Federal Cloud Service holds DISA Impact Level 5 and Impact Level 6 provisional authorizations for US defense/intelligence deployments.
BusinessWire — Palantir DISA Authorization for PFCS Forward · as of 2026-02-12
Palantir partners with Microsoft to deploy Gotham, Foundry, AIP and Apollo on Azure Government, including DoD IL6 (Secret) and Top Secret clouds — US-controlled infrastructure.
Microsoft Source — Palantir and Microsoft partner for classified networks · as of 2024-08-08
There is no published EU-owned, EU-sovereign data-residency offering independent of US hyperscalers and US legal reach for EU public-sector data.
TechCrunch — Europe's efforts to ditch US software · as of 2026-04-27
Operations & People
12
Headquartered in Denver with US-centered leadership, ~72% of staff in the US, USD reporting and ~74% of revenue from US customers. Core mission and largest customer is the US government and defense establishment.
Why 12? 3 sourced facts · click to expand
Palantir had 4,429 full-time employees as of December 31, 2025, with about 72% based in the United States.
Palantir FY2025 Form 10-K (via TradingView summary) · as of 2025-12-31
In FY2025, US revenue was $3.320 billion of $4.475 billion total — roughly 74% from US customers, ~26% international.
Palantir Q4/FY2025 earnings release (via Yahoo Finance) · as of 2026-02-03
US government revenue was $1.855 billion in FY2025, making US defense/intelligence agencies Palantir's anchor customer base.
Palantir Q4/FY2025 earnings release (via Yahoo Finance) · as of 2026-02-03
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
- ?
Does Palantir offer any genuinely EU-sovereign deployment (EU-owned operator, EU-only data residency, contractual immunity from US legal requests) for European public-sector data?
If a credible sovereign-by-design EU offering exists, the infra score could rise modestly; current evidence shows reliance on US hyperscalers and US legal reach.
- ?
What share of EU/UK government deployments are on-premises or air-gapped versus on US-cloud-backed services?
On-prem/edge deployments reduce some data-residency exposure, but US corporate domicile and CLOUD Act reach remain regardless of hosting location.
- ?
Exact 2025 international (EU-specific) revenue and headcount within Europe.
Filings give US vs international splits but limited EU-specific granularity, slightly lowering precision on the operations dimension.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework lens
The EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework targets cloud service providers; this is an analogous mapping applied to Palantir as a US software/analytics vendor, not a certification or formal SEAL assessment.
Strategic
US-owned, US-controlled vendor whose strategic alignment is with US defense and intelligence priorities, not EU autonomy.
Legal & jurisdictional
Delaware-incorporated and US-run; subject to the CLOUD Act, which can override EU data protections regardless of storage location.
Data & AI
Platforms (Gotham, Foundry, AIP) run on US hyperscalers and US gov clouds; no demonstrated EU-sovereign data/AI offering independent of third-country control.
Operational
HQ in Denver, US-centered leadership, ~72% US workforce, USD reporting; operations are run from the United States.
Supply chain
Core dependency on US cloud providers (AWS, Azure Government, Google Cloud) and US-controlled accreditation regimes (DISA IL5/IL6).
Technological
Hardware-agnostic and on-prem/edge-capable deployments offer some portability, partially decoupling from any single cloud — but not from US corporate control.
Security & compliance
Strong security accreditations exist (DISA IL5/IL6, FedRAMP-style), but these are US frameworks; EU sovereignty compliance is contested (e.g., NHS FDP, Bundeswehr rejection).
Environmental sustainability
No EU-specific environmental sovereignty data reviewed for this profile.
EU alternatives
French-founded enterprise data/AI platform with strong EU roots, but now US-HQ'd (New York) with heavy US VC backing — verify governance and data-residency for sovereign workloads.
German sovereign-AI company positioning explicitly for EU government and defense, EU-incorporated and EU-operated; narrower than Palantir but a genuine sovereignty-first option.
European (Munich-based) defense-AI firm built for EU/NATO sovereignty; closest EU analogue for the defense-and-intelligence software niche Palantir occupies.
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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