OVHcloud US Celebrates 10 Years of U.S. Growth and Innovation

RESTON, VA – (August 27, 2026) - OVHcloud US is celebrating its 10th anniversary this Founder’s Day, marking a decade since OVH US LLC was officially formed on August 25, 2016, and the beginning of an ambitious effort to bring a vertically integrated approach to cloud infrastructure to the U.S. market.

The story started four years earlier with OVH founder Octave Klaba. By 2012, Klaba had built OVH into a successful European hosting company with a way of operating that was distinctly its own. The company designed and built its own servers, developed water-cooling technology and operated its own fiber network. Klaba saw that hands-on approach as a way to improve efficiency and performance while giving customers more control over the infrastructure they used. He believed the same approach could work in the United States.

Turning that idea into a U.S. operation required significant investment. In 2013, OVH secured an approximately $181 million financing package to support new U.S. data center construction. The plans became official on August 25, 2016, when OVH US LLC was formed. Two months later, OVH closed a €250 million investment from KKR and TowerBrook to accelerate its international expansion, with the United States identified as a priority market. That same month, Vint Hill, Virginia, was selected as the site of the company’s first U.S. data center.

OVHcloud US entered the market with an established global business behind it. By the end of 2016, OVH had more than 1,200 employees, 20 data centers, more than 250,000 active servers and one million customers across 130 countries and four continents.

The U.S. operation took shape quickly in 2017. OVHcloud US established its headquarters in Reston, Va., built out its executive team and announced a second data center in Hillsboro, Ore. The acquisition of VMware’s vCloud Air business that year brought experienced employees and seven additional data centers into the company, accelerating its U.S. expansion.

“The dates tell only part of this story,” said Jeffrey Gregor, general manager of OVHcloud US. “What matters most are the people who turned an ambitious idea into a U.S. business with customers, colleagues and roots here. Octave believed cloud infrastructure could be built differently, with greater efficiency, transparency and freedom for customers. That belief remains part of our DNA, and our U.S. team has spent the past decade putting it into practice. Founder’s Day is an opportunity to recognize what they built and recommit to that idea for the decade ahead.”

Now, OVHcloud US operates data centers in Vint Hill, Virginia, and Hillsboro, Oregon, as part of a global infrastructure that has grown from 20 data centers when the U.S. business was formed in 2016 to 46 today. The OVHcloud global network now has 100 Tbps of capacity, connecting an infrastructure footprint that spans four continents.

That original belief in customer choice continues to guide OVHcloud US. Its portfolio spans Bare Metal Cloud, Hosted Private Cloud and Public Cloud, allowing customers to use each environment on its own or connect them as part of a hybrid approach. The goal remains straightforward: give organizations the freedom to run workloads where they belong, with transparent pricing and no lock-in.

OVHcloud US enters its second decade as demand for cloud infrastructure continues to accelerate as AI and other compute-intensive workloads continue to increase infrastructure requirements. For OVHcloud US, that changing market reinforces the principles behind its original U.S. expansion: infrastructure efficiency, customer choice and greater control over how and where workloads run.

Over the next two years, OVHcloud US will continue sharing the milestones that followed its 2016 formation, recognizing the people, investments and decisions that have shaped the company’s progress in the United States while looking ahead to its next decade of growth.

About OVHcloud US

OVHcloud US is an open cloud infrastructure provider built on a simple principle: the cloud should make organizations more agile without forcing a trade-off on cost, control or the freedom to move workloads where they belong. The company delivers high-performance infrastructure with transparent, predictable pricing and no lock-in for organizations in the United States and around the world. Its portfolio spans Bare Metal Cloud, Hosted Private Cloud and Public Cloud — three environments customers can mix and interconnect into a single hybrid whole, scaling across them while retaining full control of their technology choices, with regional security, compliance and data residency available where required. OVHcloud US draws on the global network of OVHcloud, a global cloud player and the European cloud leader, which operates 46 data centers worldwide serving 1.6 million customers in more than 140 countries across four continents. Backed by that scale and more than 25 years of integrated infrastructure expertise, OVHcloud US gives organizations the freedom to innovate, operate with confidence and scale on their own terms.

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Megan Yunker
OVHcloud US
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