The Luxembourg-headquartered cloud computing firm Gcore and the Frankfurt-based software company Northern Data Group on 2 April 2025 announced a strategic partnership that aims to transform AI deployment and inferencing, which is the process that a machine learning model uses to make a prediction or draw conclusions from data. Their agreement will deliver a “full-stack AI platform,” said a press release, which will include foundational hardware and inference endpoints.
“Gcore has signed a strategic agreement with Northern Data to form a full-stack sovereign AI cloud, supporting customers on-prem[ises], at the core and at the edge, with the largest GPU [graphics processing unit] footprint among European cloud providers,” commented Gcore CEO , “By leveraging our software, network and engineering capabilities, we’re strengthening our foundational services to support Gcore and Northern Data customers on their AI disruption journey in Europe and beyond.”
This partnership establishes the “Intelligence Delivery Network,” a distributed global network that counts 180 points of presence, over 200 Tbps of network capacity and 14,000 peering partners, and combines it with Northern Data’s GPU infrastructure, said the companies. The network is designed to enable the secure delivery of AI workloads at the “edge,” meaning information storage and computing abilities are closer to the devices that produce that information and the users. The combined offering features a “simple-to-deploy architecture” that will allow clients to access the full-stack solution in real-time.
“We are combining Northern Data’s heritage of HPC [high performance computing] and data centre infrastructure expertise, with Gcore’s software innovation and engineering expertise, allowing us to accelerate our vision of delivering software-enabled AI infrastructure across a globally distributed compute network,” commented Northern Data Group’s founder and CEO Aroosh Thillainathan. “This is an inflection point where the use of AI solutions is evolving rapidly, and we believe that this partnership will form a key part of the next phase of AI adoption.”
Northern Data Group has also taken two seats on Gcore’s board of directors, noted the communiqué. The German software firm has also “secured an option to acquire a majority of the outstanding capital stock of Gcore at a predefined valuation.”
Founded in 2014, Gcore has eight offices around the world and 500 employees. The company in July 2024 announced a .