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CoreWeave: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CoreWeave is a US cloud provider specialised in infrastructure for artificial intelligence. Its offer includes GPU and CPU compute, storage, networking, bare-metal servers and managed Kubernetes, intended for training AI models, inference and rendering. Customers include developers of foundation models, start-ups and large enterprises. The services are consumed as a Kubernetes-based cloud platform.

CoreWeave is headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey (United States) and has been listed on the Nasdaq (CRWV) since March 2025. It is therefore subject to US jurisdiction and thus to the CLOUD Act, including for data stored in Europe. According to public sources, CoreWeave operates its own data centres in the United States and in Europe; which European locations are available, and whether they are within the EU, is something a customer needs to confirm with the company. The platform is not open source. For European organisations with strict requirements on data location and jurisdiction, this calls for a careful assessment.

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Sovereignty score
27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-350
    Hosting inside and outside Europe (US, EU)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 6, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUS, EUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitecoreweave.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CoreWeave

The European alternatives to CoreWeave come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with CoreWeave

CoreWeave is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

CoreWeave hosts data in US, EU. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

CoreWeave is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs CoreWeave together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to CoreWeave?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CoreWeave include 1984 Hosting, acens and Aiven. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to CoreWeave?

Our list of EU alternatives to CoreWeave is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is CoreWeave GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

CoreWeave is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, EU. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 6, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

Cloud IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service — virtual machines, storage, networking. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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