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OUTSCALE accelerates sovereign AI with NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs in its SecNumCloud infrastructure

OUTSCALE — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:30:53 +0000

OUTSCALE announces the availability of NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs within its SecNumCloud-qualified cloud infrastructure, operated in France, to accelerate sovereign AI and high-performance computing projects in a trusted environment.

Discover NVIDIA HGX H200 GPUs available at OUTSCALE.

Designed for the most demanding uses in generative AI and high-performance computing (HPC), the Nvidia HGX H200 architecture is built on multi-GPU configurations (8x H200) optimized for large language models and memory-intensive workloads.

The HGX H200 platform delivers up to 1.1 TB of aggregate HBM3e memory across its 8 GPUs, with each GPU offering up to 4.8 TB/s of memory bandwidth delivering higher performance for both training and extended-context inference.

With these new capabilities, OUTSCALE enables public and private organizations to accelerate the deployment of their AI projects, streamline the transition from experimentation to production, and maintain control over their strategic data.

Highly regulated sectors such as the public sector, healthcare, finance, and defense can therefore deploy their AI projects with a high level of security, compliance, and sovereignty.

To discover how these new capabilities can accelerate your artificial intelligence projects within a sovereign and secure environment, discover NVIDIA HGX H200.

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Overcoming the challenges of implementing agentic AI

OUTSCALE — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:05:33 +0000

Intelligent automation is entering a new phase with agentic AI. By combining the execution capabilities of automation with the reasoning of generative AI, it enables autonomous agents to act directly at the core of business processes. Organizations expect three major benefits: cost reduction, faster turnaround times, and improved service quality.

Led by Simon LUSINCHI (Partner at Artefact) and Marie-Astrid de Foucauld (AI Ecosystem Manager at OUTSCALE) during the OUTSCALE EXPERIENCES event, this session analyzes the major obstacles related to deploying agentic AI in companies. It highlights the importance of going beyond a purely technological vision to jointly orchestrate human, business, and technical levers, which are key to sustainable transformation.

Understanding the stakes of agentic AI

The emergence of agentic AI is part of the ongoing evolution of technological uses, following RPA automation, traditional analytical AI, and then generative AI. Characterized by its ability to reason and chain actions, this new form of AI marks a turning point: it no longer limits itself to content generation, but decides, acts, and adapts based on its context.

This technological shift fundamentally transforms how projects are approached. The objective is no longer simply to optimize the time allocated to an isolated task, but to rethink and transform the overall functioning of an entire process.

Three methods to get started

To initiate an agentic transformation, organizations can choose between three methods:

Global strategy: map all processes, quantify potential value, and prioritize use cases to build an enterprise-wide agentic roadmap.
Function-based approach: first target a cross-functional area (HR, legal, marketing, administrative) and identify processes to optimize with agents.
Targeted pilots (PoCs): launch pilots on process fragments to build a methodology and quickly demonstrate value (e.g., commitment management).

A progression of benefits

The deployment of agentic AI can be understood across three levels of maturity: individual use, mutualization, and end-to-end autonomy. At each level, ROI becomes clearer, more collective, and more strategic.

Individual level : An assistant automates specific tasks for a person or function. The gain is real but remains diffuse, as it mainly improves local productivity.

Mutualization level : An agent orchestrates multiple actions around a common objective, serving a team or shared workflow. The value created becomes collective and easier to measure in operations.

Autonomous level : The agent takes charge of an entire business process end-to-end. This is where the impact becomes systemic, with performance indicators focused on execution speed, quality, cost, and scalability.

A systemic approach to transformation

To avoid the common mistake of trying to deploy artificial intelligence systematically, Artefact structures its approach around a global vision. Very often, the ideal solution does not lie in integrating an autonomous agent, but rather in simplifying automation or restructuring an existing process.
This multidimensional approach is structured around three strategic axes:

The human dimension: defining a global vision, building the internal narrative, setting appropriate safeguards, and continuously developing skills.
The business dimension: relying on precise process mapping to determine whether the added value will truly come from AI, an RPA solution, or simple organizational optimization.
The technological dimension: focusing on rigorous data management, robust architecture, and the establishment of clear governance.

Data governance and security requirements

The effectiveness of an AI agent is closely tied to the quality of its data architecture. To be fully usable, information must follow a rigorous process of collection, cleaning, structuring, and classification. However, it is crucial to avoid paralyzing the system through excessive classification into “confidential” or “restricted” categories, which could block access to useful data and significantly degrade overall performance.

At the same time, security is a fundamental pillar of the approach. Before considering the deployment of an agentic solution, any organization must anticipate and formalize its requirements in terms of network constraints, hosting conditions, integration protocols, and access rules. Beyond purely technical aspects, this reflection represents a true challenge of trust and overall governance.

Selecting the right solution

To address different levels of maturity and organizational constraints, OUTSCALE offers three complementary approaches based on the desired level of autonomy.

GPU as a Service is aimed at highly technical profiles seeking full control over infrastructure and models.
LLM as a Service enables rapid deployment of a private API within a sovereign and secure framework.
OUTSCALE offers a turnkey software solution designed to be accessible to non-technical users and to accelerate large-scale adoption.

OUTSCALE also relies on an ecosystem of cloud and consulting partners, including Artefact, to support clients at every stage of the project. This support covers initial assessment, use case scoping, deployment, and ongoing optimization of usage and performance.

Key Takeaways

1. Agentic AI fundamentally changes how processes are executed. It no longer simply assists users: it acts, orchestrates, and can make certain decisions within a defined framework. This requires organizations to rethink business processes as a whole, rather than automating only isolated tasks.

2. Success relies on a truly cross-functional approach. Three complementary dimensions must be aligned: the human dimension, with adoption and upskilling; the business dimension, with the selection of the most relevant use cases; and the technological dimension, with data quality, architecture, and integration. The challenge is therefore not only technical, but also organizational and operational.

3. The main obstacles relate to data and governance. Data quality, accessibility, and security directly determine agent performance. Choosing solutions adapted to the organization’s level of maturity is also critical to delivering reliable, measurable, and sustainable results.

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Electronic Invoicing: A Strategic Turning Point for Accredited Platforms

OUTSCALE — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:47:54 +0000

The electronic invoicing reform marks a major transformation for the French digital ecosystem. Starting in September 2026, it goes far beyond a simple evolution of invoicing practices: it profoundly reshapes the technical, regulatory, and operational requirements of the stakeholders involved.

At the heart of this transformation, Accredited Platforms play a key role, supported by cloud infrastructures capable of meeting unprecedented requirements.

A Reform That Goes Beyond Tax Compliance

Electronic invoicing does not merely modernize an administrative process. It transforms a regulatory obligation into a genuine critical infrastructure for the economy.

Today, Accredited Platforms (APs) formerly known as Partner Dematerialization Platforms (PDPs) no longer manage invoices alone. They orchestrate sensitive tax data flows in near real time, within an environment subject to particularly strict constraints.

This entails strong requirements :

no service interruptions tolerated
no acceptable security vulnerabilities
complete traceability of data flows
continuous regulatory compliance

In this context, infrastructure robustness is no longer a purely technical issue. It has become a key factor of credibility, trust, and market differentiation.

Accredited Platforms: Trusted Third Parties at the Core of the System

Accredited Platforms occupy a central position in the reform. They act as the link between businesses and the tax administration, ensuring the proper circulation of invoicing data.

Their role goes far beyond the technical management of data flows. They are becoming true tax trusted third parties, with major responsibilities :

ensuring compliance of invoicing flows
guaranteeing data integrity and security
maintaining flawless service continuity

In this model, a platform failure is not limited to an isolated incident. It can impact the entire value chain.

The responsibility of Accredited Platforms is therefore multifaceted: regulatory, operational, and reputational.

Cloud as a Strategic Lever to Meet Requirements

In light of these challenges, infrastructure choices become decisive. Accredited Platforms must rely on environments capable of meeting high standards in terms of security, compliance, and performance.

It is in this context that the Cloud becomes essential.

In particular, a SecNumCloud-qualified cloud represents a true strategic advantage for electronic invoicing stakeholders.

The OUTSCALE Approach: Accelerating Safely

With its sovereign SecNumCloud-qualified Cloud, OUTSCALE provides a concrete answer to the challenges faced by Accredited Platforms.

Rather than building a compliant infrastructure from scratch, platforms can rely on a foundation already aligned with the most demanding market standards.

Concretely, this enables :

reduced regulatory risks
simplified audit processes
an architecture compliant with public sector requirements
high availability suited to critical services

This approach allows Accredited Platforms to focus on their core business: developing their services and supporting businesses in their transition to electronic invoicing.

Building a Sustainable Chain of Trust

The success of electronic invoicing relies on a fundamental element: trust.

Trust in platforms, in data flows, in data security, and in service continuity.

By relying on a robust, secure, and compliant cloud infrastructure, Accredited Platforms can not only meet regulatory requirements but also position themselves as reliable and differentiating players in a rapidly evolving market.

In this new ecosystem, the Cloud is no longer just a technical support layer.
It becomes a strategic pillar of digital transformation and an essential lever for accelerating safely.

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Securing Banking: Compliance, SecNumCloud, and DORA Resilience

OUTSCALE — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:40:51 +0000

For a bank, any migration of critical applications to the cloud starts with the same question: will we be at least as well protected as we are on-premises?

Compliance as a starting point

Before discussing cost or performance, risk, compliance, security, and IT teams assess whether a cloud solution can meet regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations. These requirements: operational resilience, control over outsourcing, incident management, and data protection determine which applications can be migrated and how deep the transformation can go. Compliance thus becomes the foundation of the cloud strategy.

OUTSCALE: compliance “by design”

At OUTSCALE, we chose to embed compliance “by design” from the company’s inception over 15 years ago. Our sovereign infrastructure is SecNumCloud-qualified by ANSSI, a certification that attests to a high level of technical, operational, and legal rigor, particularly regarding sovereignty, sensitive data protection, and resilience against extraterritorial laws. This qualification is based on a highly demanding framework that complements ISO/IEC 27001.

Why SecNumCloud matters for banks

For a financial institution, SecNumCloud is a key trust marker: it ensures that the evaluated cloud offering meets a high level of security, that data is hosted within the European Union, and that the operator is not subject to extraterritorial laws that could compromise confidentiality or service availability. At OUTSCALE, this foundation is reinforced by certifications such as ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, HDS, and SOC 2 Type 2, further strengthening trust in the infrastructure for critical use cases.

DORA: a new framework for digital operational resilience

The European DORA regulation (Digital Operational Resilience Act) harmonizes ICT risk management requirements across the EU for financial entities. It introduces stronger ICT risk governance, regular resilience testing, stricter oversight of critical service providers, and detailed reporting obligations in the event of major incidents. Leveraging a qualified sovereign cloud offering transparency, audit rights, traceability, and environment isolation becomes a key enabler for demonstrating DORA compliance and securing relationships with supervisory authorities.

Sovereign SaaS solutions beyond infrastructure

At OUTSCALE, we offer SaaS solutions deployed on our sovereign cloud to manage fund compliance and structure end-to-end data value chains—from ingestion to delivery in a controlled environment. Risk, compliance, and business teams thus benefit from ready-to-use application building blocks designed from the outset to meet regulatory expectations.

Once this foundation of security, compliance, and sovereignty is in place, banks can focus on transforming their use cases and leveraging their data to make better decisions. The third article in this series will address this dimension: how to “transform and decide” using a sovereign, hybrid infrastructure and well-governed AI.

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Transform and Decide: How Sovereign AI Enables the Modernization of Banking Services

OUTSCALE — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:32:18 +0000

Once security and compliance are under control, sovereign cloud becomes a driver of innovation: it enables the industrialization of AI use cases on critical applications while maintaining full control over the most sensitive data.

Moving from a security objective to a transformation objective

For a long time, the main challenge of cloud projects in banking was to “do at least as well” as on-premise systems in terms of security. Today, institutions also expect sovereign cloud to help them move faster, test new services, industrialize AI use cases, and improve the quality of business decision-making. An elastic, high-performance, secure, and sovereign infrastructure becomes the foundation for gradually modernizing core banking systems, risk information systems, or data platforms without giving up control over critical information.

The “AND” strategy rather than the “OR” strategy

At OUTSCALE, we do not seek to oppose non-European hyperscalers to sovereign cloud providers, but rather to build intelligent hybrid architectures. Less sensitive workloads can continue to benefit from the advanced services of certain hyperscalers, while applications and data classified as C2/C3/C4 are hosted on a qualified sovereign infrastructure ideally SecNumCloud-certified to limit legal and regulatory exposure. This strategy is particularly relevant for AI projects, which are highly GPU-intensive and require both strong computing capabilities and a data localization policy aligned with the sensitivity of each use case.

AI as a Lever for Critical Applications

Artificial intelligence has become a central lever for evolving critical banking applications. It enables the automation of low-value tasks (such as document reading and first-level checks), the processing of massive volumes of data (transactions, customer histories, market data), and improvements in fraud detection, credit scoring, and risk modeling. For risk, compliance, finance, and marketing departments, AI paves the way for faster, better-informed, and more personalized decision-making provided that strict control over data and models is maintained.

Also read:
Sovereign Cloud to Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness in the Financial Sector
Asset Management and AI: Why Sovereignty Has Become a Critical New Digital Imperative

Bringing AI Under Control: Sovereignty and Transparency

Bringing AI under control means ensuring data sovereignty knowing where data is stored, who can access it, which laws apply as well as ensuring model traceability, including understanding their training sources, limitations, and authorized uses. In partnership with Mistral AI, we offer a sovereign AI solution fully operated on French infrastructure, ensuring that financial institutions’ data remains under European jurisdiction, without exposure to extraterritorial laws. This combination of SecNumCloud-qualified sovereign cloud, DORA compliance, and sovereign AI models enables the deployment of business copilots, regulatory assistants, enhanced scoring engines, and large-scale document analysis within a controlled environment.

Decide with Confidence, Starting Today

By combining sovereignty, compliance, operational resilience, and controlled AI, banks can transform their critical applications, gain agility to launch new services, industrialize their data/AI use cases, and prepare for the continuous evolution of the European regulatory framework. With OUTSCALE, a sovereign cloud operator and Dassault Systèmes brand, banking institutions have a partner capable of supporting them end-to-end from data classification to the deployment of sovereign AI at the core of their operations.

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Critical banking applications: why sovereignty has become strategic

OUTSCALE — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:55:50 +0000

When a critical banking application fails, it is not just a financial issue. Customer trust erodes, regulatory scrutiny intensifies, and the entire ecosystem is weakened.
In this context, sovereignty is no longer a matter of doctrine, it has become a fundamental condition for survival. It is the ability to retain control and exercise one’s own decision-making autonomy.

1. The new equation for banks

In the banking sector, critical applications support core functions where even a minor failure can have systemic impact. These applications are not only an infrastructure concern, but also a matter of sovereignty and trust with regulators and end customers. The triad “secure, transform, decide” enables business and IT leaders to align their priorities around shared challenges.

2. What a critical application is in banking

Talking about critical applications first means addressing data sensitivity and the business risk associated with their unavailability. Within the same institution, some applications can tolerate limited downtime, while others must operate continuously, as they ensure service continuity, regulatory compliance, and brand reputation. In practice, an instant payment or interbank clearing application cannot afford any interruption: just a few seconds are enough to halt thousands of transactions. By contrast, an internal reporting tool can tolerate a few minutes of downtime without major consequences.
To structure these challenges, banks rely on internal classification frameworks, for example from C1 to C4, where C3 and C4 cover the most sensitive and critical information.

3. From C1–C4 classification to Cloud choices

This classification has a direct impact on Cloud strategy: for C1 data, it may be acceptable to use non-European hyperscalers, provided that the governance model and applicable jurisdiction are clearly understood and accepted. Once beyond C2—and especially for C3/C4 scopes—control over data location, access, legal framework, and protection against extraterritorial laws becomes essential, making the use of sovereign Cloud a structuring requirement.
In France, the ANSSI SecNumCloud qualification has become the reference standard for identifying “trusted Cloud” offerings designed to protect sensitive data, including against extraterritorial laws.

4. OUTSCALE’s complementary multi-cloud approach

At OUTSCALE, a Dassault Systèmes brand, we advocate a complementary multi-cloud approach rather than a direct opposition between hyperscalers and sovereign Cloud. Less sensitive workloads can rely on non-European hyperscalers, while the most critical applications and data should remain on-premise or migrate to a qualified sovereign infrastructure.
Understanding what a critical application is and why sovereignty is now central to banks’ Cloud decisions is key. In the next article, “Secure: compliance, SecNumCloud, and DORA resilience for banks,” we will explore how to concretely secure this trajectory through compliance, SecNumCloud, and the DORA regulatory framework, before addressing transformation and sovereign AI in the third piece.

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OUTSCALE x TELEHOUSE: Building a sovereign, secure, sustainable, and natively AI-ready Cloud.

OUTSCALE — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:54:51 +0000

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing infrastructure needs: explosion in demand for computing power, massive integration of latest-generation GPUs, and ever-stricter requirements for security and compliance.

Faced with this major challenge: how to combine performance, data sovereignty, and environmental sustainability?

OUTSCALE, a Dassault Systèmes brand, offers a SecNumCloud-qualified sovereign Cloud capable of hosting sensitive AI workloads within a framework compliant with European requirements.

In partnership with Telehouse, whose data centers located in France meet the highest international standards, OUTSCALE provides infrastructures suited to new high-density AI workloads: modular architectures, optimized connectivity, and advanced cooling solutions.

“What we prioritize are infrastructures that are local because we need to guarantee sovereignty. […] to ensure the commitments we have made to our clients […] and data localization, all within a SecNumCloud regulatory context.” Arnaud Bertrand, CTO OUTSCALE, Dassault Systèmes.

Beyond performance, the challenge is also environmental. The rise of AI requires reflection on energy efficiency and resource optimization. This is why this collaboration integrates solutions from the outset aimed at improving infrastructure resilience and sustainability.

“The challenges of artificial intelligence are numerous for OUTSCALE. The first challenge is to ensure that this AI can be sovereign when our clients want sovereign AIs. […] The second aspect concerns infrastructure issues; with AI, we have to go for water cooling otherwise we don’t have sufficient density to industrialize artificial intelligence solutions […] while ensuring it runs on closed circuits and paying attention to energy efficiency,” states Arnaud Bertrand, CTO OUTSCALE, Dassault Systèmes.

Our conviction is clear: the future of Cloud infrastructures will be sovereign, intelligent, and responsible.

Discover in our video how OUTSCALE and Telehouse are together preparing tomorrow’s strategic infrastructures.

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Carbon Footprint: A Service enabling our clients to measure and manage the carbon footprint of their Cloud usage

OUTSCALE — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:51:28 +0000

At OUTSCALE, environmental commitment is not a statement, it is a long-term trajectory. For several years, we have continuously rethought our infrastructures, Cloud services and operational practices to reduce our own environmental footprint while enabling our customers to better manage theirs.

The launch of Carbon Footprint fully reflects this ambition.

Carbon Footprint is a sovereign Cloud service that enables CIOs and CSR teams to measure, understand and manage the estimated carbon footprint of their Cloud usage, within a secure and trusted environment.

A Service at the Core of OUTSCALE’s Environmental Strategy

OUTSCALE’s environmental approach is built on a clear principle: a sovereign and sustainable Cloud operator must promote efficient, demand-driven usage, avoiding overprovisioning and unnecessary energy consumption.

This vision of programmable sobriety guides our decisions across the entire value chain, including :

selection of more efficient infrastructures and service design,
continuous optimisation of energy consumption
improvement of the environmental performance of our services,
selection of partners aligned with our sustainability requirements.

This approach, combining efficiency, responsibility and sovereignty, directly shaped the design of Carbon Footprint.

From Understanding to Action: Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Cloud Usage

Measure

Any effective initiative to reduce the environmental impact of digital technologies starts with a fundamental step: measurement.

Carbon Footprint provides a detailed estimation of the carbon footprint associated with resources consumed on the OUTSCALE Cloud.
Emissions are calculated and categorised by service type and emission source, giving organisations a clear and structured view of the environmental impact of their Cloud usage.

This measurement forms the foundation for a consistent and actionable environmental strategy.

Understand

Through intuitive visualisation in Cockpit, OUTSCALE’s Cloud management interface, and full integration via the public API, Carbon Footprint enables organisations to precisely identify emission sources and the most carbon-intensive Cloud services.

This level of granularity provides the insight required to support informed decision-making and effective environmental governance of Cloud architectures.

Manage

The objective of Carbon Footprint is not only to inform, but to enable action.
Thanks to the indicators provided, CIOs and CSR teams can:

monitor changes in their Cloud carbon footprint over time,
identify reduction levers aligned with sustainability and CSR objectives,
strengthen compliance with regulatory and reporting requirements,
document and demonstrate ESG commitments to stakeholders.

Carbon Footprint is not an additional dashboard, it is an operational environmental management tool, designed to support IT and sustainability decisions over the long term.

A Further Step in OUTSCALE’s Environmental Strategy

With Carbon Footprint, OUTSCALE strengthens its commitment to responsible and sovereign Cloud services, providing organisations with the tools they need to regain control over the environmental impact of their Cloud usage.

Learn more about Carbon Footprint:

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OUTSCALE enriches its offering with Mistral Embed & Mistral Medium on SecNumCloud 3.2

Evan Deun — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:41:14 +0000

OUTSCALE, a Dassault Systèmes brand and the only public Cloud operator qualified SecNumCloud 3.2, enriches its offering with Mistral AI. We are proud to announce the deployment of Mistral Embed and Mistral Medium on our sovereign infrastructure, offering French companies and institutions leading AI capabilities in a secure and sovereign environment.

Mistral Embed: Excellence in Textual Embeddings

Mistral Embed represents a major breakthrough in the field of textual embeddings. This state-of-the-art model converts text data into vector representations.

The ‘vectors’ help AI understand the meaning and context of a text, allowing it to find similar information, distinguish subtle nuances in meaning, and generate relevant responses.

The technical capabilities of Mistral Embed include:

Advanced Semantic Search: Analysis and comparison of textual content with unmatched precision.
Multilingual Processing: Native support for over 80 languages for international organizations.
Duplicate Detection: Automatic identification of similar content in large document corpora.
Intelligent Classification: Automatic categorization of documents and unstructured data.

Mistral Medium, Adaptive Intelligence

Mistral Medium is designed to deliver top-tier performance in demanding professional uses such as programming, multimodal understanding, and complex reasoning.

Cutting-Edge Performance

With performance comparable to over 90% of leading market models, Mistral Medium stands out for its excellence in programming, mastery of complex document understanding, and efficiency in data analysis.

Multimodality

Capable of processing and integrating textual and visual inputs, paving the way for enhanced applications such as document verification, image-based diagnostics, and customer support.

Extended Context Window

Supports large volumes of contextual data to analyze and synthesize information over long sequences.

The Mistral Embed and Mistral Medium models are available on OUTSCALE Marketplace in the SecNumCloud 3.2 environment. Deployment takes just minutes thanks to bundles, and a few clicks with a pre-packaged and optimized solution.

Discover how Mistral Embed and Mistral Medium can transform your business processes while ensuring the protection and sovereignty of your data and intellectual property. To learn more about our sovereign AI offerings, contact our experts today.

Datacenter : The Cornerstone of Strategic Autonomy for Public Data

OUTSCALE — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:38:35 +0000

At a time when digital sovereignty and ecological transition are becoming top priorities, the sovereign datacenter stands out as a key lever.
During a round table organized by OUTSCALE, Antoine Fournier (Thésée Data Center) and David Chassan (OUTSCALE) shared their insights on this strategic topic.

A rich and thought provoking discussion centered on one essential theme: the role of sovereign datacenters in building a trusted, resilient, high-performance, and compliant digital ecosystem.

Digital Sovereignty: A Chain of Trust That Begins with Infrastructure

Digital sovereignty goes far beyond data localization. It relies on a chain of trust and the first and most tangible link is physical: the datacenter.

« Every cloud service, every AI, at some point, needs a physical infrastructure to operate. » Antoine Fournier, Thésée Data Center

The datacenter is not just a container, it is the very foundation of strategic autonomy. At OUTSCALE, this means a clear responsibility: working only with partners capable of guaranteeing the highest standards in security, compliance, performance, and sustainability.

Demanding Certifications: Guarantees of Trust and Transparency

One of the highlights of the round table was the emphasis on certifications as tangible proof of strong commitments to sovereignty:

TIER IV: the highest standard of resilience for hosting critical data
SecNumCloud 3.2: the ANSSI qualification, the French and European reference for trusted cloud infrastructure
CISPE: the only certification recognized by the CNIL ensuring that data remains within Europe and is processed in full compliance with the GDPR

These certifications are not just labels, they are part of a transparent, controlled, and continuously improving approach. As an example, Thésée recently conducted a full scale intrusion test in collaboration with law enforcement to strengthen its internal security systems.

OUTSCALE & Thésée: An Industrial and Eco-Responsible Partnership

With over 380,000 clients and 45 million users worldwide, OUTSCALE embraces a strict industrial approach. Its partnership with Thésée is built on three strategic pillars: security, operational excellence, and eco-responsibility.

Together, we:

Are committed to the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact, aiming for climate neutrality by 2030
Invest in technologies such as direct water cooling, waste heat reuse, and closed-loop systems
Integrate energy efficiency criteria from the design phase (“PUE by design”)

« We must be industrial in our approach, with extremely rigorous choices. Deploying our cloud services in datacenters like Thésée means ensuring high levels of security, performance, and sustainability. » David Chassan, OUTSCALE.

Toward European Digital Autonomy…

The conclusion of this round table was clear: strategic autonomy is not declared, it is built. It is based on:

Certified and reliable partnerships
Resilient and ethical infrastructure
A shared commitment to embedding digital transformation within a long-term vision, respectful of both sovereignty and the environment

OUTSCALE & Thésée embody this ambition.
Together, they are building the foundations of a trusted European digital future.

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