01 / SOVEREIGN EDGE COMPUTE
Compute that stays.
NOORD builds on-premise AI inference appliances for European industry. Your models run inside your walls, on your power, under your law. Nothing leaves the site.
- 01 Top cover — sealed
- 02 Cold plate — direct liquid
- 03 Inference modules ×4
- 04 NVMe 16 TB — encrypted
- 05 Chassis — 2U / 19″
4.2 kW rack unit
1.9 ms median inference
0 bytes egress
CE / NIS2 / GDPR aligned
02 / THE CONSTRAINT
Some data can't take the trip.
A container terminal generates more sensor data in an hour than it can push to a datacentre in a day. A hospital can't send imaging across a border. A grid operator can't accept 200 ms of round-trip latency on a protection decision.
The cloud is not wrong. It's just somewhere else.
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200–400ms
Typical round trip to the nearest hyperscaler region — before inference begins.
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63%
Of European industrial operators name data residency as the blocker to production AI.
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€0.09/GB
Egress, charged every time your own data leaves.
03 / HARDWARE
One rack unit. No dependencies.
NOORD ships a sealed inference appliance, pre-loaded with your models, racked by our field team and maintained under a five-year contract. It needs power, cooling and a network drop. It does not need us.
SPEC — NOORD E-40
Form factor
2U, 19″ rack
Throughput
Up to 340 tokens/s sustained, 7B class
Latency
1.9 ms median · 4.4 ms p99
Draw
4.2 kW peak · 1.6 kW idle
Cooling
Direct liquid — facility loop or self-contained
Storage
16 TB NVMe, encrypted at rest, keys held on site
Network
Air-gap capable. Updates by signed physical media.
Support
5 years, 4-hour on-site across the Benelux
Reference load
Crane vision and container OCR — 26 camera streams, sustained
Reference load
Line-rate defect detection — 240 frames/s, weights on premises
Reference load
Sub-cycle waveform anomaly detection — decision under 10 ms
Reference load
Imaging inference — 380 studies/day, data stays in the building
Firmware and model weights are signed and auditable. You can read every line we ship you.
04 / DEPLOYMENTS
Built for floors, not for demos.
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04.1
Ports & terminals
Crane vision, container OCR and berth scheduling at the quay, where the fibre stops.
ANTWERP · ROTTERDAM · VLISSINGEN
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04.2
Manufacturing
Defect detection on the line at frame rate, with weights that never leave the plant.
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04.3
Energy & grid
Sub-cycle anomaly detection inside the substation, air-gapped from the corporate network.
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04.4
Care & diagnostics
Imaging models run in the hospital basement. Patient data stops at the door.
61 appliances in production
9 operators
4 countries
0 recorded egress events
05 / NEXT
Tell us what your site can't send.
Our field engineers spend a day on your floor measuring power, thermal headroom and network reality, then tell you honestly whether an appliance is the right answer. Roughly one assessment in four ends with us recommending you don't buy one.