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Crusoe: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Crusoe, Inc. is a US company that sells AI cloud computing. Its main offering, Crusoe Cloud, provides GPU capacity based on NVIDIA and AMD accelerators, together with managed inference, serverless fine-tuning, Kubernetes and Slurm services for AI workloads. Customers start through an online console or by contacting sales. The company describes itself as an AI infrastructure provider that designs, builds and operates the data centres behind its platform.

The company is headquartered in the United States and is therefore subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act, wherever a customer's servers are located. Its newsroom lists large data centre campuses in Texas. The website does not state where customer data is stored or processed, and it does not name EU regions or a data residency commitment. European organisations that plan to store personal data on the platform should request written residency guarantees and a data processing agreement first. The service is offered as a hosted platform; the website describes no self-hosted or open-source option.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • 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 11, 2026
Headquarters
US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision
Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
USVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
Cloud IaaS
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Crusoe

The European alternatives to Crusoe come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Crusoe

Crusoe 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.

Crusoe hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Crusoe 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 Crusoe 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 Crusoe?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Crusoe 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 Crusoe?

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

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

Crusoe is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Cloud IaaS

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