Where can you rent GPUs in Europe with EU data residency?
You can rent GPUs in EU data centers from four kinds of provider: European-headquartered clouds such as OVHcloud, Scaleway, IONOS and STACKIT; GPU clouds with European sites such as Nebius, Verda and Nscale; dedicated GPU servers from hosts such as Hetzner; and the EU regions of AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. All of them can keep data in the EU. They differ in which GPUs they offer, how much capacity they have, and which country’s law applies to the company that runs them.
European-headquartered clouds
These providers are headquartered in the EU and run GPU instances in their own European data centers. The table lists GPU models from each provider’s own pages as of November 2026. Availability differs by region and changes often.
| Provider | Headquarters | GPU models offered | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| OVHcloud | France | H200, H100, L40S, L4, A10, V100S | Hourly cloud instances |
| Scaleway | France | B300, H100, L40S, L4 | Paris for B300 and H100 SXM; Warsaw for some models |
| IONOS | Germany | H200 | VMs with 1, 2, 4 or 8 GPUs; new accounts start with one single-GPU VM |
| STACKIT | Germany | H100 (8-GPU HGX and 1 to 4 NVL), A100 80 GB, L40S | Part of the Schwarz Group |
The newest GPUs are thinner on the ground at these providers than at the largest GPU clouds. For B300 in Europe, see the dated list in where to rent NVIDIA B300.
Hetzner: dedicated servers, not cloud GPUs
Hetzner Cloud offers no GPU instance types. Hetzner rents GPUs only as dedicated GEX servers, billed monthly with a setup fee. As of November 2026:
| Server | GPU | GPUs | Location | Monthly price (excl. VAT) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEX45 | RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF, 24 GB | 1 | Helsinki | €214 |
| GEX63 | RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q, 96 GB | 1 | Helsinki | €999 |
| GEX131 | RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q, 96 GB | 1 | Falkenstein, Helsinki | from €1,499 |
| GEX430 | RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q, 96 GB | 4 | Helsinki | €3,599 |
These suit inference, fine-tuning and development on a fixed budget. They are not a fit for multi-node training, which needs 8-GPU nodes connected by InfiniBand or RoCE.
GPU clouds with European sites
Specialized GPU clouds, often called neoclouds, have the largest European stocks of H200, B200 and B300 and sell multi-node clusters with InfiniBand.
| Provider | Headquarters | European locations |
|---|---|---|
| Nebius | Netherlands | Public regions in Finland and France; private regions in Iceland and the UK |
| Verda (formerly DataCrunch) | Finland | Helsinki, Finland, and Iceland |
| Nscale | UK | Norway, the UK and Portugal |
| Crusoe | US | Iceland and Norway |
| CoreWeave | US | Spain, among others |
Iceland and Norway are not EU members but belong to the European Economic Area, where the GDPR applies. The UK is outside both. If a contract or regulator says “EU”, check whether EEA or UK locations are acceptable before choosing one of these sites.
Hyperscaler EU regions
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud run current GPUs in EU regions. AWS, for example, offers Capacity Blocks for B200 instances in Stockholm and Paris and for H200 instances in Stockholm and Spain. You choose the region where data is stored and processed.
The caveat is jurisdiction. These providers are US companies, and the US CLOUD Act lets US authorities request data a US provider controls, wherever it is stored. Whether that matters depends on your data and your regulators; what the US CLOUD Act means for EU data covers it. The same question applies to US-headquartered GPU clouds with European sites.
Residency is not sovereignty
Data residency means data is stored and processed in a location. Sovereignty also asks who controls it: which company operates the service, under which law, and who can access it remotely. A GPU in Frankfurt run by a US company meets a residency requirement but may not meet a sovereignty requirement. Data sovereignty vs data residency explains the difference.
What to check in the contract
- Operating entity. The legal entity that signs the contract and runs the data center, and where its parent company is.
- Sub-processors. The list of sub-processors in the data processing agreement, and where each one is.
- Support and remote access. Where support staff sit and whether they can access your systems from outside the EU.
- Metadata and logs. Where telemetry, logs, backups and billing data go, not only the GPUs.
- Exit. Egress charges and data return terms when you leave.
EU GPU capacity with Cloudfleet
Cloudfleet can join GPU nodes from EU providers such as Hetzner, OVHcloud, Scaleway and Exoscale, or your own servers, into one managed Kubernetes cluster. Cluster metadata stays encrypted in the Frankfurt control plane region, as described on the GPU Kubernetes page.