European AI infrastructure, with the stock already inside the border.
Part of our verified inventory is EU-located, which changes the entire shape of a European deal: no transatlantic freight leg, shorter lead times, and VAT handled inside a system built for reclaiming it. The desk covers the EU, UK and EEA on the same buyer-side terms as everywhere else.
EU stock changes the deal.
Buying hardware that is already inside the customs union removes the slowest, riskiest leg of the supply chain. Current EU-located lines, H200 nodes and RTX-class volume among them, quote in days-to-weeks lead times and land without an import event for EU buyers. For UK and non-EU European buyers, the leg from the EU is short and well-trodden, and we run importer-of-record where needed.
VAT on cross-border hardware is a process, not a cost, when the paperwork is right: reverse-charge mechanics and reclaim processes exist precisely for this, and we structure the transaction so your finance team is reclaiming rather than absorbing. It is unglamorous work and it is routinely worth more than the last percent negotiated off the unit price.
Where Europe is genuinely different.
European buyers carry regulatory context nobody else has: GDPR residency expectations, the EU AI Act phasing in obligations for AI systems, and sector rules layered on top for finance and health. None of it prevents building serious AI infrastructure; all of it rewards deciding data location and facility jurisdiction before hardware, which is the sequence we run by default.
On power, Europe splits in two: the traditional FLAP-D hubs are capacity-constrained with long connection queues, while the Nordics offer abundant renewable power, efficient cooling climates and increasingly serious AI capacity at materially better economics. The right placement depends on your latency needs and your residency constraints, and putting training in the north while inference stays near users is a pattern that works.
Start from what is verified today.
Current verified lines, lead times and indicative pricing are public on the live inventory. The buying structures are on the procurement desk and the leasing desk, and the decision frameworks are in buy versus lease and cloud versus bare metal.
Asked first, answered straight.
Yes. Current EU-located verified lines include H200 Dell nodes and RTX-class volume, with lead times listed on the live inventory. EU-located stock means no import event for EU buyers and materially shorter time to racked.
Through the mechanisms built for it: reverse charge where applicable, correct import VAT treatment where there is an import event, and reclaim processes run properly. Structured right, VAT is cash-flow timing rather than cost.
Residency and jurisdiction are design inputs, not afterthoughts: named facility, named operator, verifiable location for the data layer that must stay put. We sequence those decisions before hardware, which is what keeps the deal from being re-run later.
If residency allows: where power is cheap, green and available, which increasingly means the Nordics. If residency binds: the named in-country facility comes first and the economics follow. We put both options side by side with real numbers.
Working through this on a real requirement?
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