Play and Scaleway Form a Strategic Partnership. Polish Businesses 
to Gain Access to Secure European Cloud and AI Solutions

In times of rapid digital transformation, sovereign and efficient cloud and AI solutions are becoming key to the success of enterprises and institutions. Simultaneously, the current geopolitical climate is driving demand for European-developed technologies as alternatives to American and Asian offerings.

The strategic collaboration between Play and Scaleway directly addresses these challenges. Both companies are part of the iliad Group – one of the largest telecommunications groups in Europe – with the resources, expertise, and capabilities in cloud computing and AI. Scaleway has the highest sovereign compute power in Europe.
Thanks to the partnership with Scaleway, Play Solutions for Business clients will gain access to offerings built on key strategic pillars:

• Sovereign European Public Cloud: Scaleway provides cloud infrastructure located in Europe, ensuring compliance with local regulations and digital sovereignty requirements in data management.
• Advanced GPU Capabilities for AI: As AI applications evolve, access to optimized computing power has become essential. Scaleway continues to invest in this area and already offers 5,000 GPUs. This allows Play to deliver efficient, on-demand infrastructure for training AI models to businesses and institutions.
• A European Alternative to Hyperscalers: By strengthening its ecosystem of cloud and AI solutions, the iliad Group – having recently announced a €3 billion investment in AI – enables enterprises to reduce dependence on non-European providers and protect their technological autonomy.

Through Play Solutions for Business, companies and institutions will have access to:

• Hybrid Cloud: A combination of public and private cloud benefits, providing businesses with high flexibility, dynamic resource management, secure IT infrastructure, reduced costs, and regulatory compliance.
• AI and Data Processing Tools: This includes on-demand GPU servers located in European data centers (Warsaw and Paris), and a Model-as-a-Service offering that simplifies AI model deployment.

The goal of the Play and Scaleway partnership is to provide Polish businesses with a competitive and trustworthy alternative to American and Asian solutions. By leveraging local infrastructure and advanced technologies, the iliad Group companies will further support digital transformation in Poland – facilitating the adoption of public cloud and AI while maintaining the highest standards of security, performance, and cost-efficiency.

Currently, Play Solutions for Business offers the most comprehensive range of services for large enterprises in Poland. Play’s portfolio – in addition to advanced cloud and AI solutions delivered using the iliad Group’s own infrastructure – also includes telecommunications services and cybersecurity solutions.

“Play is renowned for delivering top-tier mobile and home B2C solutions, but over the past years we have also been rapidly expanding our presence in the B2B segment. Under the Play Solutions for Business brand, we already support over half of the top 100 largest Polish private companies – and we’re just getting started. By enhancing our portfolio with cutting-edge cloud and AI capabilities, developed in collaboration with Scaleway and the broader iliad Group, we are taking a bold step forward. This partnership allows us to offer European-grown, secure, and high-performance digital infrastructure – empowering companies and institutions to innovate faster, scale smarter, and lead confidently in a digitally-driven world. With this move, our offering becomes the most comprehensive on the market,” said Ken Campbell, CEO of Play.

“The urgency of building a credible and competitive European cloud alternative has never been greater. Too often, national initiatives fragment our strengths instead of rallying behind truly scalable, sovereign solutions. With this partnership, we are calling for a shift: a pan-European industrial strategy that recognizes and backs an open, sovereign, and high-performance cloud, built on transparency, interoperability, and trust. Together with Play and the broader iliad Group, we are committed to offering European businesses a secure, cost-effective infrastructure that enables them to scale, innovate, and lead with confidence in the age of AI,” said Damien Lucas, CEO of Scaleway.

“For several years now, the iliad Group has been convinced that artificial intelligence and cloud technologies will define the next chapter of digital transformation in Europe. That’s why we are investing massively across the entire AI value chain, from data centers to open-source research. This partnership between Play and Scaleway perfectly reflects our ambition: to democratize access to powerful, secure, and sovereign digital infrastructure, tailored to the needs of European enterprises,” summed up Thomas Reynaud, CEO of the iliad Group.

Press contacts:
Krzysztof Olszewski, Play krzysztof.olszewski@play.pl
Paola Gabriele, Scaleway pgabriele@scaleway.com

About Play: Play entered the Polish market in 2007 as the fourth mobile network operator. It quickly earned customers’ trust by offering groundbreaking and innovative services at attractive prices. As a result, the company is now a leader in the telecommunications industry. Play provides high-speed internet, mobile services, television, and business solutions under the Play Solutions for Business brand. It also offers access to one of the most advanced telecommunications networks in the country. Play is part of the iliad Group – a fast-growing European telecommunications group headquartered in Paris. About Scaleway: Scaleway is Europe’s leading sovereign cloud provider, delivering powerful and sustainable infrastructure for organizations of all sizes, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises. Part of the iliad Group, Scaleway has been designing and operating digital infrastructure in Europe since 1999. Designed for modern workloads, Scaleway offers the performance and flexibility businesses need to build, scale, and innovate, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence. Trusted by over 38,000 organizations, Scaleway supports Europe’s AI ecosystem with cloud environments optimized for training and deploying advanced machine learning models. With a growing network of data centers across Europe, Scaleway brings together digital sovereignty, energy efficiency, and a commitment to European values to provide a secure and reliable alternative to global hyperscalers. About the iliad Group: Created in the early 1990s, the iliad Group is the inventor of the world’s first triple-play box and is now a major European telecoms player, standing out for its innovative, straightforward and attractive offerings. The Group is the parent of Free in France, iliad in Italy and Play in Poland, has more than 18,200 employees serving more than 50.2 million subscribers, and generated €10.0 billion in revenues in 2024. In France, the Group is an integrated Fixed and Mobile Ultra-Fast Broadband operator and had 23.1 million subscribers at end-2024 (15.5 million Mobile subscribers and 7.6 million Fixed-line subscribers). In Italy, where it launched its business in 2018 under the iliad brand, it is the country’s fourth-largest mobile operator and had over 11.6 million Mobile subscribers and 349,000 Fiber subscribers at end-2024. In Poland, the Group is an integrated convergent operator, and at end-2024 had 13.3 million Mobile subscribers and more than 2.1 million Fixed-line subscribers. In the second quarter of 2024, the iliad Group became Europe’s fifth-largest operator by number of retail Mobile subscribers (excluding M2M) and it remains the fifth-largest Fixed Broadband operator.