OVHcloud has opened its first data center in Italy, expanding its footprint into Southern Europe and reinforcing its push to deliver sovereign cloud services across the continent. The Milan-based facility marks the 44th in the company’s global network and represents a key milestone: it is the company’s first deployment outside France to feature a three-availability-zone (3-AZ) architecture.
This 3-AZ configuration, with discrete power and network connections over three colocated locations, provides extreme resilience and fault tolerance for mission-critical workloads. Engineers built the model for industries that cannot tolerate downtime—consider government systems, financial services, and healthcare infrastructure—particularly as European customers increasingly demand solutions that align with data residency legislation and regional security regimes.
More than a national milestone, Milan fits into a broader international roadmap. In recent months, OVHcloud has launched services in markets like Toronto, Mumbai, and Sydney, while also pushing its Local Zones initiative. That program aims to place cloud capabilities closer to users through lightweight, low-latency deployments tailored to local needs. OVHcloud says additional Local Zones are coming to Johannesburg, Tallinn, and Bogotá by 2026.
Since its 2021 IPO, the French provider has invested over €1 billion in infrastructure expansion and now operates 28 Local Zones and 44 full-scale data centers. The company expects the Milan site to bring public cloud services online by the end of 2025.
With more than 1.6 million customers across 140 countries and a total of 450,000 servers deployed globally, OVHcloud’s expansion reflects a calculated move to serve regions where proximity, compliance, and control are increasingly as critical as compute power.
