Nebius has added an on-premises partner offering to its cloud platform.

The company will now enable partners to deploy Nebius' full-stack cloud platform within their own data centers, thus expanding Nebius' compute footprint.

– Charlotte Trueman

The business model sees partners financing and owning the infrastructure and hardware and operating the data centers. Nebius, meanwhile, provides the systems architecture, deploys and maintains the hardware and software and services, and takes the capacity to market.

According to Nebius, this enables partners to have a fast route to serving the AI cloud market, and partners can start generating a return as soon as it is live. For Nebius, this also expands the capacity it can offer its customers, with partner data centers joining the Nebius capacity pool, adding incremental capacity to that coming online from Nebius’s owned data centers and colocation sites.