UpCloud, Siili Solutions, and ConfidentialMind Partner to Deliver Sovereign AI for Europe

A production-ready sovereign AI stack for public sector, defense, regulated industries, and critical infrastructure

European organizations are under growing pressure to modernize with AI while maintaining control over where their data lives, how it is processed, and who governs the infrastructure behind it.

At UpCloud, we believe organizations should not have to choose between modern AI capabilities and full control of their infrastructure. That’s why we are partnering with Siili Solutions and ConfidentialMind to bring production-ready sovereign AI to organizations across the Nordics and Europe.

Together, the partnership combines:

• UpCloud’s European cloud and GPU infrastructure
• ConfidentialMind’s sovereign AI platform
• Siili’s AI delivery, governance, managed services, and AI transformation expertise

The result is a sovereign AI environment organizations can deploy today without compromising on performance, compliance, or operational control.

Why sovereign AI matters now

Sovereign AI has quickly become a business priority across Europe. The EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2, and growing geopolitical uncertainty are forcing organizations to take a closer look at where their AI infrastructure runs and who controls it. At the same time, many businesses want to reduce dependency on external AI platforms with clear pricing, shifting API terms, and unclear data boundaries.

But this is not just about regulation. Organizations increasingly see infrastructure sovereignty as a strategic advantage. They want more control over proprietary data, AI outputs, operational costs, and long-term technology decisions.

That is exactly what this partnership is designed to support. The joint offering is designed for organizations that need to run AI in controlled environments, including private cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments. Data and inference can remain within Finland or the EEA, while authorization, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, and cost visibility are built into the platform.

Building a sovereign AI stack for production use

UpCloud: European cloud infrastructure for AI workloads

At UpCloud, we provide the cloud foundation for the stack, including dedicated NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPU infrastructure designed for LLM inference and AI model training.

Our infrastructure is fully European-owned, GDPR-compliant, and ISO 27001-certified. Organizations can run AI workloads on dedicated GPU infrastructure while benefiting from predictable pricing and zero egress fees.

UpCloud provides a 99.999% uptime SLA and operates across ten European data centers.

As AI workloads scale, transparent infrastructure pricing becomes increasingly important, especially for organizations running agentic AI and large-scale inference workloads.

Joel Pihlajamaa, Founder and CTO at UpCloud, explains:

“We built UpCloud on a simple belief: Europe should not have to choose between digital sovereignty and world-class cloud infrastructure – Europe deserves both. Through this collaboration, every layer of the stack is built and governed in Europe under European jurisdiction. True sovereignty requires genuine ownership, control, and accountability throughout the technology stack. Our mission is to help ensure Europe retains the ability to shape its own digital future.”

ConfidentialMind: Flexible sovereign AI deployment

ConfidentialMind provides the sovereign AI platform layer for the offering.

Organizations can deploy and manage LLMs, RAG pipelines, and AI agents across on-premises environments, private clouds, or hosted European infrastructure while keeping data within their chosen environment.

The platform is environment-agnostic and compatible with leading open-source models through OpenAI-compatible APIs.

Markku Räsänen, Co-founder and CEO at ConfidentialMind, explains:

“The most valuable enterprise data is also the data that can never leave the organization. Our platform was built to solve that problem in any environment – on-premises, private cloud, or European hosted infrastructure. This partnership with Siili and UpCloud is our commitment to making that option available at scale, across Europe.”

Siili Solutions: Bridging AI strategy and operations

Siili Solutions brings the implementation, governance, and operational layer to the partnership.

The company supports organizations across AI advisory, AI coaching, AI-assisted development, managed AI services, AI governance, agentic automation, system integration, continuous development, and end-to-end operations, helping organizations move AI initiatives from experimentation into production.

Jaakko Aatola, VP Strategy & Partners at Siili Solutions, says:

“Our clients want AI they can rely on – technically, jurisdictionally, and ethically. This partnership gives them that. Whether they’re looking to build and govern multiple agents, maintain data sovereignty, or simply have a trusted foundation to experiment from, we can offer a fully sovereign stack that meets them where they are.”

Siili’s delivery capability is underpinned by ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for AI management.

Challenging outdated assumptions about sovereign AI

For years, organizations assumed sovereign AI meant higher costs, slower innovation, or weaker performance. That assumption no longer reflects reality.

Open-source models are now highly competitive for many enterprise workloads, giving organizations greater transparency and control over how AI systems are deployed and governed. Dedicated European GPU infrastructure can deliver enterprise-grade performance while providing predictable costs and clearer data boundaries than many proprietary AI services.

Organizations that control their own infrastructure often gain more flexibility over pricing, governance, and deployment speed, rather than becoming dependent on external platform roadmaps or changing commercial terms. What once required significant in-house investment can now be deployed through production-ready sovereign AI platforms and managed services.

Sovereign AI is also no longer limited to heavily regulated industries. Demand is growing rapidly among technology companies and organizations building on proprietary data that want their infrastructure, models, and data governed within Europe by design. As the European AI ecosystem continues to mature, organizations increasingly have access to viable European alternatives across infrastructure, platforms, and operational services.

Who benefits most

This stack delivers immediate value wherever data sensitivity, compliance requirements, or data ownership matter most, including:

• Public sector and government
• Healthcare and life sciences
• Financial services
• Manufacturing and industrial organizations
• Legal and professional services
• Technology companies building on proprietary data

Additional focus sectors highlighted in the partnership include defense, security organizations, and critical infrastructure providers.

For many organizations, the underlying concern is the same: how to deploy modern AI capabilities without giving up control over sensitive data or strategic infrastructure.

Sovereignty is becoming a competitive advantage

Organizations that control their infrastructure stack gain more flexibility over pricing, governance, deployment timelines, and how proprietary data is used inside AI systems.

As AI becomes more deeply embedded into core business operations, those decisions become increasingly important.

We believe sovereign infrastructure will become one of the defining competitive advantages for European organizations over the next decade.

Learn more about the partnership

To learn more about the partnership and how Siili Solutions, ConfidentialMind, and UpCloud are helping organizations deploy sovereign AI, read the press release.

If you’re exploring sovereign AI infrastructure, AI platforms, or managed AI services for your organization, we’d be happy to discuss.