Polarise, the German provider of sovereign AI infrastructure, and World Wide Technology (WWT) have announced a strategic partnership to speed up the build-out of AI capacity that stays under European jurisdiction and control. The first joint project is Polarise’s new AI data centre in Oslo, which is already under way, with WWT acting as systems integrator.
The Oslo site is a liquid-cooled deployment built on NVIDIA reference architecture and running NVIDIA accelerated computing. It will house 5 MW of compute capacity. Polarise owns the whole stack there, from the data centre and cooling through to the software platform.
It follows Polarise’s first large AI cluster in Munich, delivered as part of the Industrial AI Cloud project. WWT is expected to help with a pipeline of further AI Factories across Europe, the term Polarise uses for its own data centres.
Michel Boutouil, founder and CEO of Polarise, said the pace of demand is the reason for bringing in a delivery partner. “Oslo is the next step. Partnering with WWT lets us build at the pace the market demands, with delivery standards our customers can depend on,” he said.
WWT’s Scott O’Mara, SVP of GSP International, pointed to the scale of what is coming. “Over the next decade, European enterprises will need sovereign compute on a scale that barely exists today,” he said.
Polarise also offers a Sovereign Managed Inference platform called Drive. WWT, founded in 1990, has more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations worldwide.
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