OVHcloud and CGI have won a 30-month European Space Agency contract to build Digital EO, a system for storing and processing Europe’s Earth-observation satellite data. It will be deployed in Italy, France and Germany, with support operations in Poland.
Digital EO will pool storage, computing power and AI tools for researchers, public bodies and companies, and link to existing national and European facilities. The companies said ESA expects to hold more than 500 petabytes of Earth-observation data by 2035.
OVHcloud will provide computing, storage and network capacity, while CGI will serve as architect and integrator. The companies described the contract’s value as “multi-million” euros; ESA did not disclose a figure. The award follows an April €180 million cloud tender awarded exclusively to four European firms, amid the European Commission’s push to steer strategic workloads to European providers.
