The announcement was made during the Franco-German summit “Summit on European Digital Sovereignty – Shaping Europe’s digital future. Together.” Both companies see this collaboration as a key lever to make artificial intelligence more accessible and truly sovereign in Europe.
They note that despite growing interest in AI, industrial adoption is still significantly hindered by computing costs. SpiNNcloud’s current systems already reduce certain costs by up to 17x. The next architecture, SpiNNext, is expected to push efficiency gains even further, with potential savings of up to 80x. A breakthrough that could reshape the dynamics of AI industrialization on the continent.
A Franco-German cooperation for a sovereign AI infrastructure
The two partners see their collaboration as a structuring component of a Franco-German initiative dedicated to AI infrastructures. They emphasize that sustainable competition with global giants will only be possible by strengthening cooperation among European players. Their ambition goes beyond their own partnership: they aim to involve other innovative SMEs across the continent to form a network of expertise capable of delivering essential digital building blocks without external dependency.
Clever Cloud operates a European cloud platform for hosting, automation, databases, and orchestration. All technology is developed in-house and operated in Europe. The company employs around one hundred people and serves customers in more than 120 countries.
SpiNNcloud, for its part, develops computing architectures inspired by the human brain, designed for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. Its systems currently rely on the SpiNNaker2 architecture, while SpiNNext is already under development.
The cooperation has entered an operational phase. The first SpiNNcloud systems are being integrated into Clever Cloud’s infrastructure, and technical tests are underway. Two workstreams are being developed: leveraging the performance of the systems for intensive computing, and a shared “Token as a Service” layer, enabling companies to use AI services -language models or other algorithms – based on actual consumption, with significantly reduced costs and energy usage. The teams have aligned their roadmap around integration, security, and operations.
By relying on European technologies-both hardware and software-the two companies aim to contribute to the emergence of a truly independent AI infrastructure. Following the summit, they plan to continue discussions with French, German, and European authorities to share insights on infrastructures, energy efficiency, and digital sovereignty. The event held between President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Friedrich Merz also provided a platform for extensive exchanges with the attending delegations.
Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud, States: “We want a Europe that develops its own technologies and takes control of its digital future. With SpiNNcloud, we demonstrate that European industry not only has the expertise but also the determination to address the major challenges of AI: costs, energy consumption, sovereignty. This collaboration shows that a cooperating Europe can design high-performance, efficient, and truly independent infrastructures.”
Hector Gonzalez, CEO of SpiNNcloud, adds: “With Clever Cloud, we found an ideal partner to bring the unique energy efficiency of our brain-inspired systems to industrial use cases. This Franco-German cooperation proves that Europe has the technological building blocks needed to build competitive and sovereign solutions.”
About SpiNNcloud
SpiNNcloud is reinventing AI infrastructure through a brain-inspired computing architecture designed to drastically reduce energy consumption while maintaining high performance. Its event-based approach, in which computations occur only when needed, opens up new margins of efficiency. The company provides complete systems to research centers and enterprises worldwide.
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