What 'hosted in the EU' has to mean to be worth saying
Where the data sits, who can compel its disclosure, and which claims are decoration.
31 Jul 2026 · Europe · 7 min
Every B2B site in Europe now carries the badge. Hosted in the EU. It sits in the footer next to the cookie banner, and it is doing three different jobs for three different companies — sometimes honestly, mostly not. Since we put the phrase on our own site, we owe you the standard we hold it to.
Three questions give the phrase its meaning
Where does the data rest? This is the easy one, and the only one most badges answer. A region label on a bucket. Necessary, nowhere near sufficient.
Who can be compelled? Jurisdiction follows the operator, not the server. A US-parented provider answers to US law — the CLOUD Act reaches data wherever it is stored, expressly including servers in Frankfurt. An EU region of a US hyperscaler answers the first question and quietly fails this one.
Where do requests travel? Data at rest is half the story. Every subprocessor, every support session, every model call is data in motion. If your prompt crosses the Atlantic at inference time, the region of the disk it came from is trivia.
The ladder
Reading a hosting claim, place it on this ladder:
- "Billed in EUR." A currency setting. Says nothing.
- "EU region." Data rests in Europe, on infrastructure whose operator may
- "EU company on EU infrastructure." Both questions answered — minus
- EU company operating its own stack. The only rung where all three
be compellable elsewhere.
whatever their upstreams do.
questions have one answer.
Where we actually stand
Tedo is a European company. The workspaces run on dedicated hardware in European data centres, and the compute layer on top of it — the microVMs your code and your agents run in — is ours, operated by us, not resold from a hyperscaler. Storage, mail and DNS are in-house. You are billed in EUR because that is where the company lives, not as the claim itself.
And the honest edge of it: AI model calls. When you choose a model served from the US, your prompt goes to the US — a region badge does not change that. So we label where every model in the catalogue is served, we support European routing where it exists, and you can bring your own key and make the choice yourself. We would rather show you the boundary than pretend there is none.
The standard
The phrase is worth saying only when all three questions have the same answer, and worth trusting only from companies that tell you where their answer stops. That is the bar we hold ourselves to — on this page and on the pricing page, where it counts.