EU AI Gigafactories vs. Deploying on Scaleway or OVHcloud Today: Which One Is Actually Realistic?

EU AI Gigafactories are presented as large-scale procurement projects intended for consortia of data-centre operators, investors, energy providers, and public entities rather than standalone startups or growing software companies. With tenders expected to lead to operations no earlier than 2028, the programme is positioned as a future source of major AI capacity, while SMEs can more immediately use free EuroHPC AI Factory and supercomputer-access schemes for prototyping, fine-tuning, training, and benchmarks, or seek funding through the EIC Accelerator. For production workloads requiring always-on availability, the author recommends commercial European providers such as Scaleway and OVHcloud, which offer EU-based GPU capacity and managed Kubernetes but generally fewer services and less large-cluster availability than US hyperscalers. It argues that cloud sovereignty involves data location, operational control, and legal jurisdiction, and that organizations can reduce lock-in by using containers, Kubernetes, Terraform or OpenTofu, and S3-compatible storage. The piece also promotes a bring-your-own-cloud deployment model through Qovery, claiming it can simplify multi-cloud or European-cloud Kubernetes operations without requiring a dedicated platform engineering team.

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