The numbers tell the story. Europe's sovereign AI infrastructure market is on track to grow from $25.8B in 2026 to $248B by 2035 — a 28.6% CAGR driven by binding regulation and a structural compute deficit. On 2 August 2026, the EU AI Act's high-risk obligations become enforceable, with penalties reaching €35M or 7% of global turnover for non-compliance. Yet European cloud providers still hold just ~15% of local market share, leaving most regulated workloads tethered to non-EU hyperscalers.
Today, Corespan Systems is announcing a partnership with Foqum, a Madrid-based AI software company specializing in secure, sovereign AI. It is Corespan's first partnership with an ISV/SI focused on AI security — and it is purpose-built for the moment European enterprises are facing right now.
Why Now
- Compliance cliff: EU AI Act high-risk rules apply 2 August 2026. Logging, human oversight, data residency, and governance must be in production.
- Economic cliff: Gartner pegs 2026 enterprise AI infrastructure spend at $401B — with the average GPU cluster running near 5% utilization. The waste isn't a rounding error; it's the budget.
- Capacity cliff: FLAP-D data center vacancy is projected at 6.5% by end-2026. AI-ready capacity is scarce, expensive, and overwhelmingly foreign-owned.
Two Companies, One Stack
Corespan Systems, creator of the DynamicXcelerator platform, is rewriting modern data center architecture through software-defined photonic infrastructure. By pooling and disaggregating GPUs, storage, and PCIe resources over a photonic PCIe fabric, Corespan turns fixed hardware boundaries into composable, workload-driven systems — lifting utilization out of the single-digit zone, eliminating stranded capacity, and giving enterprises and neoclouds a true scale-across path from edge to data center.
Foqum brings a mature, production-proven AI platform with deep expertise in secure and sovereign deployment. ISO 27001 certified since 2022 — with ENS (Spain's National Security Scheme) and ISO 9001 certifications underway — Foqum delivers document intelligence, computer vision, and predictive analytics across cloud, on-premise, and edge environments, with governance built in by default rather than bolted on after the fact. As both AI software vendor and systems integrator, Foqum reaches the organizations that simply cannot compromise on where and how their AI runs.
The Sovereign AI Gap — and How We Close It
As AI moves into regulated industries and sensitive workloads, organizations need more than raw FLOPs. They need control over their data, their hardware, their auditability, and their compliance posture. Public cloud alone can't always deliver that — and increasingly, the law agrees.
Together, Corespan and Foqum address the gap directly. Corespan's disaggregated architecture keeps workloads from transgressing across racks, spines, and cores, providing physical and logical separation at the infrastructure layer. Foqum's secure AI platform builds on that foundation with certified, governance-first software. The result is an end-to-end stack that is high-performance, cost-efficient, and sovereign by design — not sovereign by marketing.
What the Partnership Delivers
- Sovereign AI deployments, not sovereign-washing. A path to high-density AI inference on infrastructure European enterprises actually own and govern — instead of rented capacity sitting inside a non-EU legal entity.
- Performance fused with compliance. Corespan's composable photonic PCIe fabric paired with Foqum's ISO 27001-certified AI platform, engineered for the workloads under the heaviest data and audit scrutiny.
- Economics that actually work. Disaggregation and right-sizing target the 5% GPU utilization problem head-on — translating to high-performance inference at a fraction of conventional cost.
- The right fit for every workload. Composable infrastructure lets us tailor each client solution to the best hardware-and-software combination — the exact mix of GPU, storage, and photonic PCIe fabric a workload needs, paired with Foqum's AI platform — instead of forcing workloads onto fixed, one-size-fits-all systems.
- Built to scale for easy growth. Disaggregated resources grow with demand — add capacity and compose it on the fly, so enterprises expand from edge to data center without re-architecting or stranding what they already own.
- Local expertise, regional reach. Foqum's Madrid base, EU customer network, and SI muscle deliver tailored solutions across the European market — not a remote support ticket queue.
A Shared Vision for Success
“At Foqum, we believe that all AI-computing architectures are not equal, and adjusting and composing ‘machines’ that can expose the best resources at any point in time for our application(s) is the way to make a strong difference for our clients. With Corespan, we can deliver performance-tailored solutions while being fully open and standard, plus facilitate the growth of our clients when they need it. The best of both hardware and software, tuned for each client, today and tomorrow!” — Emilio Alba Linero, CTO & co-founder, Foqum
“Our application and solution partners are the ones that can best leverage our DX architecture. By enabling reference-design machines that can adjust to the best required performance at any point in time and be easy to scale, Corespan is empowering software vendors to deliver amazingly efficient (performance, energy, cost) solutions to their clients, making a big difference.” — William Koss, President, Corespan Systems
What Customers Can Expect
- Secure access to DynamicXcelerator infrastructure, tuned for regulated and data-sensitive workloads.
- Dedicated Foqum integration teams to deploy and optimize secure AI solutions on composable infrastructure.
- Sovereign-ready architectures built to satisfy enterprise AI, compliance, and data governance demands — including the 2 August 2026 EU AI Act deadline.
Looking Ahead
This partnership is more than a business arrangement. It's a shared conviction that European enterprises shouldn't have to choose between AI performance and AI sovereignty — that the right architecture and the right software, together, make both possible.
Corespan and Foqum are building the end-to-end path for organizations that need performance and control in equal measure. The compliance clock is running. The economics are unforgiving. And the customers we're hearing from aren't waiting.
Welcome aboard, Foqum. Here's to a new chapter of secure, sovereign AI in Europe.