STACKIT and neuland.ai establish joint offering to provide LLMs in German sovereign data centers

STACKIT, the Schwarz Group's cloud provider, and neuland.ai, a Cologne-based AI company, are combining STACKIT's cloud infrastructure with neuland.ai HUB, an AI management and orchestration platform (software that manages and coordinates AI systems). The offering provides customers access to various AI models including Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and large open-source models with up to 120 billion parameters.

AI models can run on the user's own hardware, in STACKIT's sovereign cloud in German data centers, or with US hyperscalers, with no difference to the user. neuland.ai promises end-to-end encryption of customer data and states it has no access to data, so it cannot be used for model training.

The joint offering targets companies that cannot send data to US companies like OpenAI or Anthropic due to regulatory concerns. Under the US Cloud Act, US authorities can access data stored by US companies even in European data centers. neuland.ai and STACKIT say their offering allows German companies to meet regulatory requirements of NIS2, DORA, and the EU AI Act.