AI infrastructure in Europe
Ionos and Q.ANT cooperate on AI
Ionos and Q.ANT want to jointly advance photonic processor technologies for AI and high-performance computers. The aim of the partnership is to build energy-efficient and sovereign AI infrastructures in Europe.
The cloud and hosting provider Ionos and the Stuttgart-based technology company Q.ANT have agreed a strategic partnership in the field of AI infrastructure. The collaboration was announced on the fringes of the re 2026 digital conference in Berlin. The focus is on photonic processor technologies for applications in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC).
According to the companies, the cooperation is intended to help strengthen Europe's technological sovereignty in the AI sector while reducing the increasing energy requirements of modern data centers. IONOS is combining its experience in operating cloud and AI infrastructures with Q.ANT's photonic chip technologies.
The partnership also includes the planned commercial use of Q.ANT's Native Processing Servers (NPS) in data centers. According to the company, the systems are already being used in scientific institutions, including the Leibniz Supercomputing Center in Munich and the Jülich Research Center.
Photonic processors work with light signals instead of electrical currents. According to Q.ANT, this should enable higher computing power with lower energy consumption, particularly for AI applications. The company also points out that the technology can be produced entirely in Europe and enables independent software stacks.
"With Q.ANT, we have a partner who is rethinking computing and thus enabling the further scaling of AI infrastructures - with an end-to-end sovereign AI stack," emphasizes Dr. Andreas Nauerz, Chief Product Officer at Ionos.
Q.ANT also sees the cooperation as an important step towards the market launch of its technology. "Photonic chips can demonstrate their strengths over conventional GPUs in AI in particular - through higher computing power and significantly reduced energy consumption," says Dr. Michael Förtsch, CEO of Q.ANT.
The two companies announced their first joint cloud solutions for AI and HPC applications for the summer.
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