Leafcloud provides sustainable public cloud infrastructure built on OpenStack, offering Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, and NVIDIA GPUs. This European provider uniquely reuses server residual heat to warm urban buildings, minimizing environmental impact. Customers benefit from competitive pricing, open-source flexibility, and strong data sovereignty guarantees.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional cloud infrastructure relies on energy-intensive data centers that contribute to significant carbon emissions and resource waste. This model often involves high operational costs and a lack of transparency regarding environmental impact.
Solution
Leafcloud provides sustainable cloud infrastructure by repurposing waste heat from its servers to warm urban buildings, thereby reducing environmental impact and operational expenses. This approach utilizes existing urban structures for server deployment, eliminating the need for new data center construction and associated resource consumption. By leveraging green energy and reusing heat, Leafcloud offers a climate-positive alternative to conventional cloud services. The platform is built on open-source technology, ensuring data sovereignty and flexibility for users.
Target Audience
Businesses seeking environmentally responsible cloud solutions, organizations prioritizing data sovereignty and open-source technology, and companies looking for cost-effective compute and GPU resources.
Features
- Distributed server deployment in existing urban buildings (Leaf sites) to capture and reuse waste heat for heating purposes.
- Utilization of green energy sources for all operations, with heat reuse enabling a dual energy benefit.
- Open-source foundation, primarily OpenStack, ensuring no vendor lock-in and facilitating multi-cloud integration.
- Compliance with European data privacy regulations (GDPR) and certifications including ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type II.
- Provision of core cloud services including Virtual Machines, NVIDIA GPUs, and Kubernetes.
- Secure data processing with LUKS full disk encryption for data at rest, and data confined to RAM at Leaf sites.
- Competitive pricing models driven by reduced infrastructure and cooling costs.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support via Terraform and Ansible for automated provisioning.
- Networking services including Load Balancers, Site-to-Site VPN, and dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 support.
- Ceph-backed block and object storage solutions offering redundancy and high availability.