Sesterce
The European AI Factory company - sovereign by design, renewable by default
Founded
2024
Starting Price
$0.17
Category
AI & Machine Learning
Last updated June 30, 2026
About Sesterce
Sesterce is a European cloud computing company providing sovereign, energy-efficient GPU infrastructure for AI training, inference, and HPC workloads. It operates purpose-built AI factories across France with vertically integrated systems spanning energy, hardware, networking, and orchestration, giving organizations on-demand access to NVIDIA GPUs while maintaining data residency and supply-chain control within Europe.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- European data sovereignty with full control over data residency and energy origin
- Broad NVIDIA GPU selection from budget RTX cards to flagship B300
- Competitive on-demand pricing with no commitment required
- Renewable-powered, liquid-cooled infrastructure with strong PUE efficiency
- Fast cluster provisioning (under two hours) without ticket queues
Key Features
On-Demand GPU Cloud
Launch on-demand VMs and bare-metal servers in seconds with no commitment, across a wide range of NVIDIA GPUs from RTX 4090 to B300.
Latest NVIDIA Hardware
Access H100, H200, A100, L40S, B200, B300, and RTX Pro 6000 GPUs with 800 Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity for large-scale training.
Sovereign Compute
Maintain data residency, energy origin, and supply-chain control with infrastructure hosted entirely within Europe.
Sesterce OS Control Plane
Unified control plane supporting Slurm and Kubernetes that provisions clusters, orchestrates training, and serves inference from a single pane of glass.
Sub-2-Hour Provisioning
Go from signed contract to live cluster in under two hours with no ticket queues.
Liquid-Cooled Infrastructure
Energy-efficient liquid cooling at up to 150 kW per rack with a PUE of 1.12, powered by renewable energy by default.
Dedicated Resources
Dedicated hardware, network, and storage with no noisy neighbors for predictable performance.
Pricing
Entry GPUs
$0.17/hour
- RTX A4000 from $0.17/hr
- RTX 4090 from $0.66/hr
- RTX 5090 from $0.71/hr
- On-demand, no commitment
Production GPUs
$1.50
Best For
Large-Scale AI Training
Train large models on clusters of H100, H200, or B200 GPUs connected over high-speed InfiniBand.
Production Inference
Serve AI models in production on the same fabric used for training via a unified API.
Sovereign AI for Regulated Industries
Run AI workloads with European data residency and supply-chain control for compliance-sensitive sectors.
HPC and Research Workloads
Run high-performance computing jobs with Slurm orchestration and dedicated resources.
