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What we're learning while building sovereign compute in Belgium. Numbers included.

We run GPUs in our own buildings, on our own power, under European law. That gives us a fairly direct view of what this costs, what it emits, and what breaks. We write that down here, including the parts that don't flatter us.

No newsletter theatre. We publish when we have something with evidence behind it, which works out at roughly once a week.

How to spot vendor lock-in before you sign

Buying sovereign from a global provider relocates the data, not the dependency. What VMware taught us, and three questions to ask before you sign.

A token is a physical product

A token isn't just text, it's silicon, real estate, and power converging into a physical product with a physical cost. Closed models can run 100x more expensive than open-weight alternatives for the same task, and carbon rarely makes the invoice at all. Here's the equation behind the price.

The invoice you can't predict

Nobody can tell you what a token costs. That's not your failure, it's the business model. Token pricing scales with usage, not with the value you get back, and the venture subsidies masking the real cost of compute won't last. Here's what to shift before they run out.

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