FAQ
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Everything you need to know about CloudGrid Energy, Policloud units and renewable-powered sovereign AI compute.
What does CloudGrid Energy do?
CloudGrid Energy develops, finances and operates renewable-powered high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure across Europe. Containerised Policloud data centres are installed on solar plants, wind farms, biomass plants and EV charging hubs to deliver sovereign AI compute at the source of clean energy.
What is a Policloud unit?
Policloud is a modular micro data centre built into a shipping container. The Policloud 100 (20 ft) delivers 104 GPUs for up to 100 kW of electrical power; the Policloud 360 (40 ft) delivers 360 GPUs for up to 450 kW. Both use waterless cooling, operate from −40 °C to +45 °C and deploy in under five months.
What is the CloudGrid Energy × Policloud agreement?
Signed in June 2026, it is a €580 million framework agreement for 280 Policloud units deployed by CloudGrid Energy by the end of 2027, representing 29,000 GPUs, 2,000,000 vCPUs and 35 MW of electrical capacity.
Where are CloudGrid Energy sites located?
Sixteen sites are secured across France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden. The first unit is operational at the Bonne Voisine site in the Aube region of France, on a wind farm.
Why co-locate AI data centres with renewable energy?
Energy is now the main constraint on AI growth. Placing compute where clean power is produced avoids grid bottlenecks and construction delays, consumes green electrons locally and gives renewable producers a stable long-term offtake.
How much of the energy is renewable?
CloudGrid Energy commits that local green electrons always exceed 50% of the units' consumption.
What is sovereign AI compute?
Sovereign AI compute is GPU capacity physically located in Europe and operated under European jurisdiction, so data and models remain subject to EU law and companies do not depend on non-European inference providers.
Who can use the computing capacity?
The capacity is primarily aimed at European SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs, as well as enterprises and public bodies looking for affordable, low-carbon inference capacity, for example to run open-source models such as Mistral.
What does a site need to host a unit?
Green, competitively priced electricity; controlled land availability; and an existing grid connection. Typical hosts are solar, wind and biomass plants and EV charging hubs.
How can I partner with CloudGrid Energy?
Renewable producers, landowners, EV hub operators and companies looking for GPU capacity can reach the team at contact@cloudgridenergy.com.
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