At VivaTech 2026, Shadow is making its computing infrastructure available to European companies for AI applications

Paris, June 15, 2026 - At VivaTech 2026, Shadow unveils its GPU Cloud & Inference offering, designed for businesses and developers seeking access to computing power for their artificial intelligence workloads.

Accessing affordable, sovereign computing power in Europe

The rise of generative artificial intelligence is driving a sharp increase in computing demand. To generate a response, analyse a query, process a document or produce a result, AI applications rely on significant GPU capacity — particularly for inference workloads.

For businesses developing or deploying AI services, access to this computing power is becoming an operational, economic and strategic priority. It means having high-performance resources available, keeping costs under control, and reducing technological dependencies.

As a member of the Synfonium group founded by Octave Klaba, Shadow aims to address this need by leveraging its existing GPU infrastructure, hosted entirely in Europe.

A GPU infrastructure rooted in cloud gaming

Since 2016, Shadow has enabled its users to remotely access powerful machines equipped with high-performance graphics cards, without the need to invest in a high-end PC.

This model has allowed Shadow to build a substantial GPU infrastructure and expertise, originally designed for gaming use cases. However, this infrastructure has a distinctive characteristic: it is heavily utilised in the evenings when players connect, but has untapped capacity at other times of day.

As AI-driven computing needs grow rapidly, Shadow can make this available capacity work for professional use cases: artificial intelligence applications, models, inference services and on-demand GPU environments.

A suite of services dedicated to the development of European AI

Shadow's GPU Cloud & Inference offering complements its core business — from cloud PCs for consumers to Cloud Workstations for enterprises, through to Shadow Drive, its storage solution developed in partnership with Nextcloud.

Within Synfonium, this «compute» layer rounds out the group's other assets, including Qwant's web search technology through Staan, its API dedicated to businesses and developers. Synfonium's ambition is to contribute to a European ecosystem capable of providing businesses with the critical building blocks of AI: web access, structured data, and the computing capacity needed to deploy it.

« Businesses developing AI applications need flexible, high-performance and controlled access to computing power. With Shadow, we want to give them access to a European GPU infrastructure — built on our cloud gaming expertise — and tailored to the new demands of AI inference. » says Boris Lecoeur, CEO of Shadow and Qwant.

At VivaTech, Shadow will showcase its latest on-demand GPU innovations, for both gaming and AI inference use cases (OVHcloud stand, Hall 7.3 - Stand 3D05).

About Shadow

A European pioneer in cloud computing, Shadow has been offering a personal cloud PC accessible from any device since 2016. Its service now brings together tens of thousands of users across Europe and North America — gamers, creatives, professionals and businesses alike.

Shadow's offering is built around two complementary pillars: a core business centred on the personal cloud PC — Shadow PC for consumers, and Cloud Workstations in VDI and DaaS for enterprises — alongside a GPU Cloud & Inference activity dedicated to European businesses and developers, built around a Spot AI Inference approach. Shadow also offers Shadow Drive, an online storage solution developed in partnership with Nextcloud.

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