Scaleway

Type: company Last Updated: 2026-02-16 Status: Active Research Sessions: 1

Executive Summary

Scaleway is a French cloud computing company founded by Xavier Niel in 1999, majority owned by Iliad Group. It is the second-largest cloud provider in France (behind OVHcloud), serving 25,000+ businesses across 160 countries. Scaleway pioneered ARM-based cloud computing (world's first ARM bare-metal cloud in 2015) and operates 9 renewable energy-powered data centers with an industry-leading 1.15 PUE. In 2024-2025, the data center unit was spun off as OpCore (€860M valuation, €2.5B planned investment with InfraVia).

Facts

Company History

• Founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 as Online SAS/Online.net — Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Dedibox dedicated server brand launched May 2006 — Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Online merged with Dedibox (another Iliad subsidiary) in April 2010 — Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Launched labs.online.net in 2013 with ARM-based IaaS (hardware manufactured near Laval, France) — Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Rebranded to Scaleway in April 2015 — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Launched world's first ARM bare-metal SSD cloud in 2015 — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Added x86_64 servers in March 2016 — Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Products & Services

• Bare metal: Dedibox range, Elastic Metal, Apple Mac mini options — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/all-products/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Serverless: Functions, Containers, Jobs, managed Kubernetes — Source: https://myhostnews.com/scaleway-elements-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-european-public-cloud-ecosystem/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Storage: S3-compatible multi-AZ object storage, cold storage archiving — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• AI/GPU: Nvidia B300 Blackwell Ultra, Ampere instances, managed LLMs with OpenAI-compatible API — Source: https://myhostnews.com/scaleway-elements-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-european-public-cloud-ecosystem/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Quantum as a Service: partnerships with Quandela, Pasqal, IQM — Source: https://myhostnews.com/scaleway-elements-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-european-public-cloud-ecosystem/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• 80+ cloud products total — Source: https://european.cloud/provider/scaleway/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Leadership

• Founder & President: Arnaud de Bermingham — Source: https://www.cbinsights.com/company/scaleway/people (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• CEO: Damien Lucas — Source: https://theorg.com/org/scaleway/org-chart/damien-lucas (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Majority owned subsidiary of Iliad Group — Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• 550-600 employees across 4 continents — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Manfred Touron was co-founder/CTO in early years (now at Gno.land) — Source: https://github.com/moul (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Data Centers & Infrastructure

• 9 renewable energy-powered data centers — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Locations: Paris (multiple DCs), Amsterdam, Warsaw, Spain, Germany — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness): 1.15 — lowest in Europe — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• DC3 won European Code of Conduct award for energy performance (2014) — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Serves 160 countries, 25,000+ businesses — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

OpCore Spinoff

• Data center unit spun off as OpCore (separate from Scaleway cloud) — Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/iliads-scaleway-to-break-off-data-center-unit-into-standalone-company-opcore/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• InfraVia acquired 50% stake in OpCore at €860M enterprise value (closed early 2025) — Source: https://infraviacapital.com/the-iliad-group-and-infravia-partner-to-develop-a-major-european-hyperscale-data-center-platform/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• €2.5B+ planned investment to make OpCore leading European data center platform — Source: https://infraviacapital.com/the-iliad-group-and-infravia-partner-to-develop-a-major-european-hyperscale-data-center-platform/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• OpCore operates 6 DCs in Paris, 1 Lyon, 1 Marseille, 7 in Poland (~131MW portfolio) — Source: https://btw.media/news/iliad-and-infravia-join-forces-to-scale-opcore-across-europe/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• OpCore negotiating with EDF for "sovereign AI gigafactory" at former Montereau power plant — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-accelerates-its-european-expansion-with-three-major-milestones/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Market Position

• Second-largest cloud provider in France (behind OVHcloud) as of 2026 — Source: https://myhostnews.com/scaleway-elements-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-european-public-cloud-ecosystem/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Strategic partnership with France Télévisions — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-accelerates-its-european-expansion-with-three-major-milestones/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Open-source AI program with Meta and Hugging Face (2024) — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Expanding to Italy and Sweden — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-accelerates-its-european-expansion-with-three-major-milestones/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001, HDS (Health Data Storage), SecNumCloud (2025) — Source: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ (confidence: HIGH) (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Related Entities

• Xavier Niel - Founder (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Manfred Touron - Co-founder, former CTO (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• Iliad Group - Parent company (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• OpCore - Data center spinoff (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• InfraVia - OpCore investor (50% stake) (discovered: 2026-02-16)
• OVHcloud - Competitor (discovered: 2026-02-16)

Sources

1. https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ - Official about page
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway - Wikipedia
3. https://infraviacapital.com/the-iliad-group-and-infravia-partner-to-develop-a-major-european-hyperscale-data-center-platform/ - OpCore announcement
4. https://myhostnews.com/scaleway-elements-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-european-public-cloud-ecosystem/ - Product overview
5. https://theorg.com/org/scaleway/org-chart/damien-lucas - Leadership

Research History

• 2026-02-16: Initial research covering history, products, leadership, data centers, OpCore spinoff, market position (1 iteration, 12+ sources)