Max-Hervé George’s SWI Stoneweg Icona Group joins hands with Polarise

The new partnership will help strengthen the AiOnX platform with GPU-as-a-Service and AI-as-a-Service capabilities across Europe.

SWI Stoneweg Icona Group, a listed alternative investment conglomerate that successfully operates across sectors including data centres, real estate, credit, and finance, has now joined hands with Polarise, a European Nvidia cloud partner, according to sources.

Max-Hervé George, Founder and CEO of SWI Group, confirmed the company has agreed to acquire a strategic stake in Polarise, which serves as one of Germany’s few end-to-end providers of AI-ready data centres and develops and operates highly efficient, sustainability-focused AI factories at top locations in Germany and Europe. The transaction marks a step in SWI Group’s digital infrastructure strategy, supporting its plans to develop an integrated AI and data centre platform across Europe.

Acquiring a strategic stake in Polarise, SWI Group has strengthened the 2.3 GW AiOnX data centre platform by incorporating GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) and AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) capabilities. It also provides Polarise with additional infrastructure capacity and financial resources to support its continued development in AI digital infrastructure. The partnership represents a natural extension of SWI Group’s existing investment in data centre infrastructure through its AiOnX platform, which comprises five hyperscaler-focused development projects currently across Europe.

SWI Group is now moving beyond traditional data centre asset development by integrating Polarise’s advanced AI computing and GPU deployment capabilities to encompass the operational and technological layers critical to next-gen AI infrastructure. The transaction also reflects SWI Group’s expanding role beyond developing and owning data centre real estate, as it continues working on high-performance computing infrastructure connected to growing demand for sovereign AI capacity across Europe. Additionally, Polarise’s expertise has enabled SWI Group to deliver a vertically integrated solution that combines large-scale power availability, hyperscaler-grade facilities, and modern-day AI compute infrastructure under one strategic umbrella.

Polarise, with 15 years of industry experience and 14 data centres built, has positioned itself as one of Germany’s few fully integrated AI-ready data centre operators. Germany’s first AI factory was launched by Deutsche Telekom and NVIDIA, with Polarise participating as a partner in the initiative. This has helped reinforce its leadership in sovereign AI computing solutions. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio spanning AI colocation, private AI clouds, and API-based access for direct utilisation of computing power. With its proprietary cloud platform, it helps enterprises and sovereign entities seamlessly integrate and access secure, high-performance AI infrastructure to meet strict regulatory and data sovereignty requirements. Polarise’s mission is clear to build Europe’s sovereign AI infrastructure now and not in the years to come.

From SWI Group, Max-Hervé George says the transaction will provide funding to support Polarise’s expansion strategy. The partnership will leverage AiOnX’s 2.3 GW Europe-wide power platform to accelerate the deployment of GPU compute capacity across the continent. The collaboration also strengthens the group’s geographical footprint with immediate operational presence in Germany and Norway through Polarise’s existing data centres. This complements AiOnX’s current development sites in Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and the UK, creating a more comprehensive and strategically aligned pan-European platform.

The integration of infrastructure development expertise with advanced AI compute capabilities is intended to support the combined business’s role in Europe’s digital infrastructure sector.

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