What Taiga Cloud does
Taiga Cloud is a European “sovereign” generative AI cloud and GPU compute capacity provider. It offers organizations access to dedicated GPU infrastructure hosted in the EU (data centers in Norway and Sweden), with “in-region” storage and processing positioned for data sovereignty and regulatory compliance. Taiga Cloud is a brand/division within Northern Data Group, and it operates as an IaaS-style compute service delivered via a self-service portal and an API, including virtual machines and bare-metal options, plus NVIDIA hardware access. The company emphasizes a purpose-built, AI-optimized platform aimed at accelerating model development and deployment while reducing time spent on infrastructure setup (for example through templates and an API-first experience). In hardware and platform positioning, Taiga Cloud highlights NVIDIA Hopper-generation GPUs (including H100 and H200), an internal GPU network (described as Infiniband-connected), and liquid cooling / sustainability-oriented datacenter operations. Strategically, Taiga Cloud’s positioning centers on competing with hyperscalers by offering localized capacity with EU-centric governance and customer-facing control over provisioning, using Northern Data’s broader GPU estate and data center capabilities as the supply base.