INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY: DATA CENTRES
Advania boosts AI and HPC leadership by acquiring Gompute from atNorth
Advania has acquired Gompute, a high-performance computing( HPC) and AI infrastructure platform, from Nordic data centre services leader atNorth.
The acquisition includes Gompute’ s skilled teams in Sweden and Spain, who will continue their work as part of Advania Sweden. This strengthens Advania Sweden’ s market position while enabling clients to meet strict data sovereignty requirements.
The transaction is pending regulatory approval and is expected to close during the third quarter of 2025. enterprise clients in sectors including financial services, automotive, and computer-aided engineering( CAE).
Gompute customers will now benefit from Advania’ s broader AI capabilities, resources, and local expertise across Northern Europe while continuing to receive the same high-performance infrastructure, integrated software environment, end-user support, service levels and technical specifications they trust.
Gompute delivers a complete, full-stack solution for demanding HPC and AI workloads through private cloud services and scalable computing clusters. It serves
While Gompute’ s infrastructure continues to support a wide range of advanced computing needs, its roots in high-performance computing remain central. Industries that depend on HPC for research, development, and innovation will continue to rely on Gompute for compute-intensive workloads, now backed by Advania’ s broader service portfolio, regional presence and focus on sustainable and secure digitalisation.
“ As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organisations need infrastructure that meets both performance and regulatory demands,” said Henrik Foyn-Laukvik, Head of M & A at Advania.“ With Gompute, we can deliver those capabilities in-region, on-demand and under full client control, ensuring regulatory compliance without compromising performance. We are committed to growing Gompute’ s role as a trusted HPC platform while expanding its AI potential.”
“ Driven by continued growing demand for atNorth’ s services, we are sharpening our focus on highdensity colocation and build-to-suit data centres,” said Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, CEO of atNorth.“ Gompute has played a key role in our HPC journey, and its evolution with Advania marks an exciting next chapter. Advania’ s AI-ready sovereign cloud vision aligns seamlessly with the platform and hosting it in our high-density data centres will enhance our strategic partnership and deliver a powerful solution for the market’ s evolving needs. p
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