evroc -Europeisk molntjänst i hyperskala ska utmana Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services och Google Cloud Platform

• Backed by global technology investor EQT Ventures and impact investor Norrsken VC, evroc recently closed a seed funding round to build its launch team.

• In 2024, evroc will establish a pilot center in the Stockholm region, while initiating a site selection process to determine the location of its first hyperscale data centers and additional software development hubs.

• evroc plans to build eight hyperscale centers and three development hubs across Europe by 2028, employing over 3,000 people in total.

https://evroc.com/news/europes-first-sovereign-hyperscale-clo...

Doldissvensken Mattias Åström vill bygga en europeisk utmanare till de amerikanska molnjättarna Amazon, Google och Microsoft.

Investeringsbehovet uppskattar han, i en intervju med Di, till minst 115 miljarder kronor på sikt.
”Bolag som Northvolt har bevisat att det går att finansiera och förverkliga nya stora industriprojekt”, säger han
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STOCKHOLM, June 6 (Reuters) - Swedish startup evroc, which is backed by EQT Ventures and Norrsken VC, plans to raise and invest 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) over the next couple of years to start operating two "hyperscale" data centres.
Demand for data is growing rapidly across Europe but most cloud services are offered by a handful of American companies known as hyperscalers or operators of large-scale data centres.

Led by serial entrepreneur Mattias Åström, evroc plans to keep the data within Europe. It has raised a seed round, and plans to build eight hyperscale data centres by 2028, three software development hubs and employ over 3,000 people.

"It's a very ambitious project. We will need to sort of continuously raise funding for the next five years," Åström told Reuters in an interview.
It will use a technique called "eco load balancer" which will move data processing between evroc's data centres based on where renewable energy is most readily available and affordable.
"When there is sunshine in Spain, we move data processing to Spain; when there's wind in the Netherlands, we move data processing there," Åström said.

Sweden has seen the emergence of several green businesses such as steel venture H2 Green Steel which uses a fossil-free process, to Northvolt, which makes batteries for electric vehicles.

Evroc plans to start a pilot centre in Stockholm next year, and start scouting for a location for one data centre in northern Europe and another one in southern Europe.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/swedish-startup-evroc-plan...

STOCKHOLM – November 28, 2023 — evroc is excited to announce that it has selected Stockholm as the location for its flagship data center. The company and Arlandastad Group today presented a letter of intent for the center to be built during 2024.

evroc plans to invest EUR 600 million over the coming years to develop the flagship data center. Serving as a scaling platform for Europe’s first hyperscale cloud, the center represents a critical milestone on the company’s path to operating ten sustainable hyperscale data centers across Europe by 2030.

evroc’s ambition is further to establish the facility as the epicenter for AI in Europe. At full capacity, the flagship data center has been designed to contain 16,000 GPUs, more than can be found at any other single location anywhere in Europe.

Mattias Åström, evroc founder and CEO: “Today, Europe is entering a new era for cloud and the next phase of the AI revolution. We want this flagship center to become a landmark for sustainability, technology, and architecture.”

Svenska molnutmanaren tar in en halv miljard – EQT investerar
Den svenska molntjänsteutmanaren Evroc tar bara något år efter starten in närmare en halv miljard kronor, bland annat från riskkapitaljätten EQT:s teknikgren EQT Ventures, kan Di avslöja.

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