Kepler didn’t start in a boardroom. It started in a server hall, with fifteen years of running infrastructure on our own hardware — and a growing realization of how much of Europe’s digital life runs on clouds we don’t own and don’t govern.
The dependence became visible
Over a few years it became clear: Swedish companies and public bodies had put their most critical systems on platforms whose ownership, jurisdiction and pricing are decided on another continent. It was convenient, until the questions of control and sovereignty became impossible to wave away.
An alternative, not a complaint
It’s easy to lament the dependence. Harder to build it away. We chose the harder path: our own servers in Falkenberg, an open control plane in OpenStack and keys in the EU. Not to tick a box, but to make sovereignty a property you can verify.
Europe deserves a cloud it actually owns — not one it merely rents.
— Pierre Grönberg, founder
What we’re building toward
The goal is easy to say and hard to do: a cloud where jurisdiction, ownership, control plane and keys all point toward the EU, toward Sweden, toward you. A cloud you stay in because you want to, not because you have to. It’s still day one — and that’s exactly where we want to be.