# Northern Data Group

> Northern Data Group supplies GPU cloud computing through Taiga Cloud and high-density data center infrastructure through Ardent Data Centers. Built from Northern Bitcoin and Whinstone, the Frankfurt-based group sold Peak Mining in November 2025 and became a majority-owned subsidiary of RUM Group in June 2026; its assets now form part of Quake AI.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- **Founders:** Aroosh Thillainathan (Group founder; former CEO)
- **Products:** Taiga Cloud, Ardent Data Centers, NVIDIA AI Enterprise licensing and managed services, Peak Mining (former division)
- **Notable:** Announced approximately EUR 730 million of H100 purchases across two 2023 investments., Reported approximately 85% revenue-generating GPU utilization in March 2026., Sold Peak Mining in November 2025 to concentrate on cloud and data centers.

## Products & services

- **Taiga Cloud** — European NVIDIA GPU cloud for AI training, fine-tuning and inference, with bare-metal, on-demand, managed Kubernetes and SLURM services. Brand launched in 2023.
- **Ardent Data Centers** — High-density colocation and modular data center infrastructure, including power, connectivity and cooling for AI/HPC workloads. Brand launched in 2023.
- **NVIDIA AI Enterprise licensing and managed services** — Software licensing and managed workload orchestration offered with Taiga’s cloud infrastructure. Launch year not established.
- **Peak Mining (former division)** — Bitcoin self-mining business sold in November 2025; no longer a continuing operating division.

## Achievements

- Announced approximately EUR 730 million of H100 purchases across two 2023 investments.
- Reported approximately 85% revenue-generating GPU utilization in March 2026.
- Sold Peak Mining in November 2025 to concentrate on cloud and data centers.
- Integrated into the Quake AI platform after Rumble acquired control in June 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — September 10 notice: Rumble Deutschland announced an intended minority shareholder squeeze-out and said contractual agreements would bring its holding to approximately 98.03% on or around September 30. Completion still required a shareholder resolution and registration; do not describe the squeeze-out as completed.
- **2026-06** — Rumble closed its control acquisition on June 17 at approximately 85.2%; announced Quake AI and the RUM Group holding-company name. Northern Data FY2026 revenue guidance was EUR 170-190 million.
- **2026-05** — May 13 operational update reported Q1 revenue of approximately EUR 43 million and approximately 85% GPU utilization in March, defined as GPUs generating revenue divided by total fleet.

## Links

- Website: https://northerndata.de/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/northerndatagroup/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/northerndataag
- GitHub: https://github.com/Northern-Data-AG
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/northernbitcoin

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Last updated: 2026-10-08