01 — STATUS
Sovereign infrastructure for the European decade.
Black Vault develops integrated power, compute, quantum, and climate infrastructure for institutions where jurisdiction, resilience, and environmental accountability cannot be outsourced.
02 — THESIS
Europe needs infrastructure that does not depend on jurisdictions it does not control.
Over ninety percent of European AI compute runs on infrastructure that answers to a foreign legal system. Grid connections for new capacity face multi-year delays across major markets. The demand for sovereign, power-secured European compute infrastructure is structurally unsatisfied — and accelerating. Meanwhile, the industry's dominant facilities consume millions of litres of drinking water daily, export heat into the atmosphere, and operate with energy efficiencies well below what modern engineering permits. Black Vault is designed to be a different answer.
The next decade of artificial intelligence and post-quantum computing will be built on physical foundations: power, geology, jurisdiction, and resilience. Black Vault designs, builds, and operates institutional-grade campuses where these foundations — together with climate integration and community benefit — are engineered by design, not assembled by accident. Phase activities are currently in execution across multiple European jurisdictions, with operating partners spanning industrial companies, regional authorities, and grid operators.
03 — PLATFORM
Not a data center.
Seven integrated functions. One sovereign campus.
Each layer is designed to operate independently and at institutional grade. Together they form a platform that no single-purpose facility can replicate — or relocate. The integration itself is the competitive moat.
Sovereign, power-secured, high-density colocation engineered for GPU and accelerated AI workloads at hyperscale density.
50–100+ KW PER RACK · DIRECT LIQUID COOLINGDispatchable four-layer energy stack: carbon-free baseload, gas-turbine CHP, battery storage, and on-site renewables. No single point of grid dependency.
4-LAYER STACK · DISPATCHABLE · H₂-READYCryogenic-grade, vibration-isolated environment built on geologically stable substrate. Hardware-agnostic Quantum-as-a-Service architecture.
15 mK OPERATING TEMP · GRANITE ISOLATION · HARDWARE-AGNOSTICEuropean law. CLOUD Act-insulated by design. Underground vault capacity for classified and regulated data environments.
EUROPEAN LAW · NO CLOUD ACT · CLASSIFIED VAULTFour concentric security rings from public perimeter to classified core. KRITIS-grade from day one. Anti-drone integration. Government-inspection ready.
KRITIS-GRADE · 4-RING PERIMETER · ANTI-DRONECo-located innovation campus with university partnerships and a talent pipeline embedded directly in the infrastructure asset.
COWORKING · UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS · TECH HUBWaste thermal energy cascaded to district heating networks. Zero potable water consumption. Hydrogen-ready generation. Carbon intensity is a design specification — not an offset.
DISTRICT HEAT RECOVERY · ZERO POTABLE WATER · H₂-READY04 — DISCIPLINES
Where engineering meets jurisdiction.
Power & Energy
On-site generation, grid-attached, dispatchable. Multi-layer architecture spanning carbon-free baseload, combined-cycle gas with CHP mode, battery storage, and renewable sourcing. Designed for 24/7 critical-load operation without single points of failure. Hydrogen-ready equipment as standard.
ENERGY STACK · 4 LAYERS · DISPATCHABLE
H₂-READY · CHP-INTEGRATED
Compute & Quantum
High-density AI compute engineered for direct-liquid-cooled architectures at 50–100+ kW per rack. Quantum-ready foundations on geologically stable substrate: cryogenic-grade, vibration-isolated, electromagnetically shielded. Hardware-agnostic QCaaS platform integrated at the site level.
PUE TARGET · 1.10 – 1.15
DLC · QUANTUM-READY · HARDWARE-AGNOSTIC
Jurisdiction & Security
Sites selected and structured for regulated-industry clients: critical-infrastructure classification, sovereign data jurisdiction under European law, four-ring physical security architecture, underground vault capacity, and full compliance with European energy-efficiency, data-protection, and resilience frameworks.
KRITIS-PATHWAY · GDPR · GAIA-X
NO CLOUD ACT · CLASSIFIED VAULT
Climate & Community
Every campus generates heat. Black Vault recovers it. Waste thermal energy from compute and generation operations cascades to district heating networks, eliminating CO₂ from thousands of residential units. Zero potable water cooling, on-site renewables, and hydrogen-ready generation make carbon intensity a design constraint — not a disclosure item.
DISTRICT HEAT RECOVERY · ZERO POTABLE WATER
CO₂ REDUCTION · H₂-READY · BROWNFIELD SITE
05 — CURRENT POSTURE
Operating Status
Execution
Geographic Focus
European Union
Engagement Model
By Introduction
Information
Data Room On Request
06 — CONTACT
Selective inbound only.
Black Vault engages with institutional partners, infrastructure investors, regulated-sector clients, and policy stakeholders by introduction.
For partnership, investment, or media inquiries — or to request access to the data room — please write to the address below. We respond within five business days to qualified introductions.