French AI cloud startup Policloud has laid out its roadmap to roll out hundreds of Edge data centers over the next five years.

Shared during the World AI Cannes Festival 2026, the company is aiming to have as many as 1,000 “micro-data center” deployments by the end of 2030, representing more than 250,000 GPUs.

The company specializes in small sovereign GPU deployments and has thus far deployed eight installations in France, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the US. This represents around €10.5 million ($12.44m) in contracts, and 1,200 GPUs deployed, according to the company.

In the short term, Policloud aims to deploy 100 systems in 2026, totalling more than 25,000 GPUs. This is more than double the company’s previous plans, which last year saw Policloud stating it hoped to have 10,000 GPUs deployed by the end of 2026.

The company uses a modular and waterless-cooled micro data center solution, which it deploys as close as possible to the data – or at the Edge. The offering is containerised, with up to 400 GPUs per unit spanning up to 100 sqm (1,080 sq ft) and 500kW of power capacity.

The deployments use Hivenet’s distributed operating platform. Details about the GPUs and other compute hardware hosted in the pods have not been shared.

The company was founded by David Gurlé, a former Microsoft executive and founder of Symphony.

In June 2025, Policloud raised €7.5m ($8.8m) in its seed funding round, led by Global Ventures and with participation from MI8 Limited, OneRagtime, Inria, France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, and other private investors.