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Kolo (formerly Serverius): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kolo is a Northern European colocation and data-centre platform. The Dutch provider Serverius is now part of Kolo, and serverius.net redirects to kolodc.com. Kolo offers colocation, including single-unit colocation, connectivity and interconnection, hybrid multi-cloud, disaster recovery, secure colocation, network security, NOC-as-a-service and relocation services. Customers place their own hardware in Kolo facilities in the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden; the Dutch sites are in Dronten, Meppel, Apeldoorn and Amsterdam. It is infrastructure rather than software-as-a-service.

Kolo is backed by CapMan Infra, part of the Finnish asset manager CapMan, which acquired Serverius in 2023. Ownership therefore sits in Finland, an EU member state. All the sites named are in EU member states. The Serverius organisation was based in Apeldoorn. The service is not open source. For a European organisation this means hardware and data stay within the EU and no non-European parent company is involved.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    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 9, 2026
HeadquartersNL (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent companyFIVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalServerius-as - Serverius Holding B.V., NL (NL)Technically measured
CategoryCloud IaaS
TypeProduct
Websitekolodc.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Kolo (formerly Serverius)

The European alternatives to Kolo (formerly Serverius) 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 Kolo (formerly Serverius)

Kolo (formerly Serverius) is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in FI, also within Europe.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Kolo (formerly Serverius) scores best on data residency.

Kolo (formerly Serverius) 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 Kolo (formerly Serverius) 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 Kolo (formerly Serverius)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Kolo (formerly Serverius) 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 Kolo (formerly Serverius)?

Our list of EU alternatives to Kolo (formerly Serverius) is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Kolo (formerly Serverius) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Kolo (formerly Serverius) is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Kolo (formerly Serverius) an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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