Sovereign-grade AI Infrastructure · Zug, Switzerland

The Foundation
of Sovereign AI

Castellan is a European company developing and operating sovereign-grade AI infrastructure — headquartered in Switzerland, with operations across Europe and the United States. It is built on the operating DNA of the Bitkern Group — an established power & compute infrastructure operator — with access to +5 GW of interconnected power.

Powered Land Access to +5 GW, on demand
Track Record +300 MW deployed · 10 yrs operating
Pipeline by 2032 800 MW minimum · 4 phases
AI Compute Bare-metal GPU · Sovereign cloud
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Manifesto

AI compute is becoming the most consequential infrastructure of the century — and today it is concentrated in the hands of a few hyperscalers.

That concentration is a strategic exposure — for European governments and institutions, and for every nation that wants AI built under its own jurisdiction. Workloads cannot always travel; data sovereignty is not a slogan.

Castellan exists to build the physical layer for sovereign-compliant AI — a European company, Swiss-domiciled and neutral, operating across Europe and the United States, leased on triple-net terms to the world's most demanding tenants.

And we do not start from zero. Castellan is built on the operating DNA of the Bitkern Group — an established power & compute infrastructure operator — to lay the foundation on which the next decade of sovereign AI runs.

85%+
AI compute capacity controlled by U.S. hyperscalers (BofA Global Research, 2025)
€200B+
EU AI infrastructure capex needed 2025–2032 (Morgan Stanley, 2025)
Power demand for AI workloads vs. legacy DC (IEA, 2025)
Swiss AG
Neutral jurisdiction, institutional governance, FINMA-aware structure
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Heritage

Castellan does not start from zero. It is built on the operating DNA of the Bitkern Group — an established operator of large-scale power & compute infrastructure, with a decade of track record across energy and powered land.

That is the difference. The hardest part of an AI campus is not constructing the building — it is securing abundant, affordable, interconnected power. Castellan brings that capability from day one.

Castellan has access to +5 GW of power, available as demand requires, alongside established energy-supply relationships — a position most newcomers simply cannot reach.

Most AI-infrastructure entrants start from zero on power. Castellan starts with the hardest asset already in hand.

10 yrs
Of operating experience the group brings to Castellan
+300 MW
Operated across the group to date
+5 GW
Of power Castellan has access to
Energy
Established power-supply & procurement relationships
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Services

The full stack — from powered land to sovereign compute.

01 — Powered Land

Secured, powered land. You develop.

Land secured on long-term tenure, with grid interconnection and access to power — the scarcest input in AI. For operators who want to build on their own terms.

Powered Land → +5 GW
02 — Infrastructure

Data-centre build-out, project-managed.

From design to ready-for-rack — electrical, cooling, and construction planned, managed, and delivered end-to-end. We run the project; you own the result.

Infrastructure → Turnkey build
Flagship · all-in
03 — Powered Shell

The complete campus, leased. You bring the GPUs.

Land, power, and built infrastructure delivered tenant-ready on a long-tenor triple-net lease. Our core offering — everything in one, fast time-to-power.

Powered Shell → 15–20 yr
04 — HPC Hardware Procurement

GPU & HPC hardware, procured at scale.

Blackwell-class GPU systems, networking fabric, and storage — sourced through established OEM and distribution relationships. Pure GPU trading — from single cards to complete, integrated racks — with allocation access, price discipline, and delivery logistics handled end-to-end.

HPC Procurement → Blackwell-class
05 — AI Compute Services

Sovereign GPU capacity, as a service.

Bare-metal GPU clusters and reserved capacity blocks under Swiss and European jurisdiction — for training, fine-tuning, and inference. Compute you can contract, without building anything.

AI Compute → GPU cloud
06 — Compute Monetization

Idle AI hardware, turned into yield.

Your AI hardware runs below capacity? Castellan brings contracted offtakers and turns idle GPU-hours into revenue — for fleets, data-centre capacity, power, and sites.

Monetization → Contracted yield
07 — HPC Hosting

Hosting for your GPU & HPC hardware.

Colocation in data centres across Europe and beyond — high-density racks for H100 to GB300 systems, DLC-ready cooling, 24/7 operations and remote hands. Your machines, our uptime — with optional monetization of idle time.

HPC Hosting → Europe+
04 ⁄ 05 · Trajectory

From first lease signed to a minimum of 800 MW of sovereign-aligned AI capacity.

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Minimum committed pipeline · 4 build phases
+0GW
Power available on demand
0% NOI
Target operating margin · Triple-net structure
0yr lease
Weighted-average tenant tenor · 15–20 yr leases
Every country needs to have its own sovereign AI infrastructure.
Jensen Huang · NVIDIA · 2024
Cumulative capacity 0 MW
Phase I · 2027–2028
+50 MW
Pilot
USA or EU — site TBD. Anchor lease in negotiation. Commissioning 2028.
Phase II · 2029–2030
+150 MW
Expansion
USA / EU (location TBD). Cumulative 200 MW operational. Track record established.
Phase III · 2030–2031
+200 MW
Continental
USA / EU (location TBD). Cumulative 400 MW. Mature operating platform.
Phase IV · 2031–2032
+400 MW
Mature Build
USA / EU (location TBD). 800 MW minimum platform, scalable on demand. Sovereign-AI infrastructure at scale.

First site — Phase I is a minimum 50 MW greenfield campus in the USA or EU (site TBD); construction 2027, commissioning 2028 — Castellan's first triple-net, sovereign-aligned campus.

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Capabilities

Operators first. A decade and +300 MW of operating track record.

Powered land & energy sourcing

Access to +5 GW of power, power-zone identification, interconnection studies, and multi-year supply relationships built over a decade of energy-intensive operations. Power is secured before a shovel hits the ground.

Powered-shell engineering

Electrical topology, transformer planning, cooling system design (air, evaporative, direct-liquid-cooling-ready), structured cabling backbone. Engineered for high-density GPU deployments — H100/H200 and Blackwell-class — to Tier III design standards.

Multi-jurisdictional governance

Swiss holding, US operating entity, planned European subsidiary. Tax-aware structure for sovereign tenants. Institutional reporting from day one.

Compliance & institutional reporting

Big-Four audit ready. IFRS reporting. FINMA-aware structure. ISO 27001 / SOC 2 roadmap. EU AI Act compliance framework for sovereign tenants.

HPC hardware & supply chain

Direct OEM and distribution relationships for Blackwell-class GPU systems, networking fabric, and storage. Allocation access, price benchmarking, logistics, and commissioning — procurement as an operating discipline.

Compute operations & monetization

A decade of running energy-intensive compute commercially. Workload placement, offtake structuring, and revenue operations that turn megawatts and GPU fleets into contracted cash flow.

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Leadership

Built on a decade of power & compute operating DNA.

Stefan Kern
CEO & Chairman · Founder, Bitkern Group

Founder of the Bitkern Group and architect of Castellan's sovereign-AI thesis. A decade operating power & compute infrastructure at scale across Switzerland, Austria, and the United States.

Henning Peter
Chief Commercial Officer & Board Member

Tenant origination and anchor-lease structuring. Commercial strategy for hyperscale, sovereign-cloud, and regulated AI workloads on long-tenor, triple-net terms.

Killian Schärli
Legal Advisor

Corporate governance, contract architecture, and multi-jurisdictional compliance across Switzerland, the EU, and the US. Counsel with MLL Legal; structures Castellan's holdings, leases, and investment documentation.

Andrew McKinney
Head of Operations · USA

Site delivery and commissioning across the US portfolio. A decade operating multi-megawatt power & compute facilities with the Bitkern Group — from ground-break to ready-for-rack.

Vanessa Lehner
Head of Finance

Group finance, IFRS readiness, and institutional reporting. Financial discipline for a fast-scaling capital programme, built on the Bitkern Group's operating track record.

Manuel Stich
Head of IT

AI software and use-case expertise — translating tenant workloads into infrastructure requirements. Leads platform IT, security operations, and automation, built on a decade of large-scale operations at the Bitkern Group.

Insights

Notes from the frontier.

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