Keywords: AI, GPU, storage, NVIDIA, Supermicro, VAST Data, Stelia, CISPE, Photoroom, H100, Blackwell, AI infrastructure.
As the year 2024 comes to a close, it’s worth reflecting on how much the European AI ecosystem has evolved—and how Genesis Cloud has steadily supported that progress. Over the past twelve months, startups, research teams, and enterprises of all sizes have demonstrated growing confidence in translating innovative ideas into real-world impact. This progress wasn’t about hype alone—it was grounded in a commitment to trust, cost-effectiveness, and ensuring that data sovereignty remains intact.
For Genesis Cloud, the mission has remained clear: provide reliable, high-performance GPU computing tailored to European standards, priced to enable everyone from first-time innovators to global enterprises. This year, we strengthened that commitment by introducing transformative updates, from launching new hardware and services to advancing our data center strategy. Each step reflected our role as a dependable partner in a dynamic AI landscape.
In 2024, we broadened our GPU offering to meet the rising demands of AI development. The roll out of various instance types and the adoption of NVIDIA H100 GPUs, optimized for generative AI and large-scale workloads, were key milestones. These GPUs offered industry-leading performance, allowing customers to tackle cutting-edge tasks in natural language processing, computer vision, and more—whether you were a small R&D team training your initial model or a multinational enterprise deploying inference at scale. Looking ahead, we have been preparing for the arrival of Blackwell-based GPUs, the next leap in efficiency and performance for AI workloads.
Our efforts to expand capacity and lower the cost barrier went hand-in-hand with one of Europe’s core principles: respect for data sovereignty. By strategically locating data centers in regions that benefit from renewable energy sources and cooler climates, we are balancing high-performance computing with an environmentally responsible approach and helping customers comply with local regulations and maintain control over their information. In a year when Europe’s policies and frameworks for AI took clearer shape, these proved to be not just operational considerations—they were affirmations of the values we share with our customers.
As AI workflows became more sophisticated, the need for seamless integration and intuitive tooling grew. Our engineers and developers have been ensuring that whether a customer uses TensorFlow, PyTorch, or another framework, the environment feels intuitive and reliable on Genesis Cloud. We enhanced integrations, optimized APIs and Terraform and Pulumi modules for easier provisioning and streamlined workflows.
In practice, these improvements meant that data scientists could run complex training jobs without wrestling with infrastructure details. It meant that CTOs, MLOps, and DevOps engineers could incorporate Genesis Cloud instances into their existing workflows with minimal fuss. By providing a straightforward path to high-performance computing, we supported customers who needed both technical excellence and a balanced approach to costs. Our mission this year was simple: let our users focus on building better models, products, and services, while we handle the compute.
Our engagement extended beyond code and configurations. Throughout 2024, we supported the growth of our local Munich MLOps.Community Meetup and joined key European industry gatherings—such as NVIDIA’s main conference in San José and DACH-focused GTC events, the Rise of AI - Cloud and Data Center Infrastructure in the AI Era summit in London, the AI & Deep Tech Investment Summit 2024 in Berlin, and Supermicro Innovate! EMEA 2024 in Amsterdam where we engaged with researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs. By contributing our insights and hosting workshops, we aimed to foster a collaborative environment where ideas could take root, partnerships could form, and the next wave of European AI excellence could emerge.
High-performance compute is only as valuable as the trust supporting it. Genesis Cloud devoted substantial effort this year to maintaining robust encryption standards, fast incident resolution protocols, and compliance with international and regional regulations. Our customers could confidently run sensitive workloads, knowing their models and data were safeguarded by a platform that through an industry-leading Kubernetes-native backend treats security and reliability as essential building blocks, not optional extras, along unparalleled efficiency and performance.
Concerns about the environmental costs of large-scale AI didn’t fade and customers looked for signs that their chosen infrastructure providers were mindful of carbon footprints and sustainable energy use. For us, this meant continuing to source renewable energy for our data center locations and looking into the most energy-efficient practices and GPUs like those from the Hopper and Blackwell generations. While we didn’t make grand claims, our goal was to be a responsible partner: encouraging conscious resource use and ensuring that high-performance compute can align with sustainability goals.
Sometimes, the clearest illustration of our role as a trusted partner comes from our collaborations with forward-looking companies. In 2024, we proudly partnered with Photoroom—a startup pioneering AI-powered photo editing and creative workflows. By providing GPU infrastructure that could scale alongside Photoroom’s needs, we helped them access the state-of-the-art performance of NVIDIA H100 clusters, accelerating their development cycles and improving their end-user experience.
This partnership didn’t just reflect shared technical goals; It underscored the principle that startups and enterprises across Europe deserve reliable, high-caliber infrastructure at a fair price point. As Photoroom revolutionized a creative segment of the AI industry, Genesis Cloud ensured they had the computational muscle to stay ahead without straining their budgets.
With regards to our technological partners, this year reflected the depth of our commitment to supporting innovation. Collaborations with industry leaders amplified our capabilities:
Additionally, joining the CISPE association reinforced our alignment with Europe’s standards for data protection and sovereignty. By supporting a shared commitment to transparency and compliance, we affirmed our role as a trusted provider in a regulated AI ecosystem.
As we move into 2025, the European AI landscape will become even more dynamic. Models will grow more sophisticated, compliance frameworks will evolve, and new applications will emerge. At Genesis Cloud, we are committed to continuing our journey alongside the innovators shaping Europe’s AI future. We’ll continue refining our infrastructure, broadening our offerings with more services, new GPU instances and data center locations, and connecting with communities across Europe. Our role is not to bask in the spotlight, but to provide the dependable support that innovators need to translate vision into impact and accelerate.
As we move forward, we remain guided by the values that defined 2024: trust, affordability, and a steadfast commitment to data sovereignty. Together, we’ll keep building Europe’s AI future—one instance, one innovation, and one partnership at a time.
The Genesis Cloud team
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