DDN, a global leader in AI and data intelligence solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Polarise, one of Europe’s fastest-rising innovators in sovereign and sustainable AI infrastructure. This collaboration aims to accelerate the deployment of NVIDIA-powered AI factories across Europe, combining the strengths of DDN’s advanced AI data platform with Polarise’s turnkey infrastructure expertise.
Together, the two companies will deliver high-performance, scalable, and energy-efficient AI infrastructure tailored to support the growing demand for sovereign AI workloads in Europe. This joint solution is designed to empower enterprises and research institutions with secure, future-ready AI capabilities that align with sustainability goals.
“Our collaboration with Polarise represents a major step forward in democratizing AI infrastructure for Europe,” said Paul Bloch, President and Co-Founder of DDN. “By combining DDN’s unparalleled AI data platform with Polarise’s innovative approach to AI factories and cloud delivery, we are enabling customers to power their AI ambitions responsibly and without compromise.”
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Polarise brings deep expertise in developing modular, AI-focused data centers built on NVIDIA reference architectures. With operational hubs in Germany and Norway, the company offers a sovereign path to AI computing through colocation services, private or dedicated cloud models, and direct API access via its proprietary platform. Sustainability is a cornerstone of Polarise’s approach, with its facilities leveraging renewable energy, advanced cooling systems, and heat reuse technologies to minimize environmental impact.
“This partnership allows us to bring best-in-class storage and data intelligence from DDN into our ecosystem,” said Nicolas Kremer, CTO of Polarise. “Together, we’re creating Europe’s answer to the age of AI—an agile, sovereign, and sustainable infrastructure that challenges outdated industry norms.”
The combined solution will deliver:
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DDN’s AI-optimized storage systems, purpose-built for NVIDIA DGX environments, ensuring high-throughput, low-latency performance across model training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads.
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Polarise’s flexible AI factory framework, enabling sovereign and scalable access to cutting-edge compute and storage resources for enterprises and research institutions.
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A shared focus on environmental sustainability, incorporating intelligent infrastructure design, community integration, and low-carbon operations.
As AI adoption continues to surge across Europe, the DDN–Polarise alliance positions itself as a key enabler of secure, high-performance, and sustainable AI deployments—meeting both the technical and regulatory demands of the European market.