330 km from Vienna, not 3,000 miles from anywhere.
Dedicated single-tenant LLM infrastructure in EU-Central, close enough to Austria that round-trip latency stays low, and far enough from any US jurisdiction that it isn't a question your legal team has to ask.
Not legal advice. This page describes GPUwerk's infrastructure, corporate structure, and contractual commitments. Whether it satisfies your specific obligations under Austrian or EU data protection law is a question for your own legal counsel, not for this website.
Why the distance to Prague matters
For an interactive LLM workload, the physical distance between your office and the machine running inference shows up directly in response time. Austria happens to sit unusually close to EU-Central.
The geography is short
Vienna to Prague is about 330 km by road, a fraction of the distance to most other EU data centre regions Austrian companies compare against. Graz and Salzburg are further but still well within the same order of magnitude.
What that means for latency
Shorter physical distance generally means fewer hops and lower round-trip time between your network and the instance, which matters most for chat-style or agentic workloads where every turn waits on a response. We haven't published our own cross-border latency benchmarks yet; if that number matters for your evaluation, ask us to run one against your own network before committing.
Still a dedicated machine
Proximity aside, the underlying offer is the same as everywhere else: a dedicated single-tenant DGX Spark, not a shared multi-tenant pool, assigned to you and reachable only through your own SSH keys.
The general landscape, stated plainly
Austria's data protection authority is the Datenschutzbehörde (DSB). GPUwerk is operated by a Czech entity, PRINT IT! SE, so the DSB isn't GPUwerk's direct regulator, the same as it wouldn't be for any vendor headquartered outside Austria; the competent Czech authority applies to GPUwerk's own processing. Your company's own processing activities stay under the DSB as usual. GDPR and the EU AI Act apply to processing done in EU-Central the same way they apply anywhere in the Union, Austria included. What GPUwerk can state as fact: the hardware sits in the Czech Republic, the operating entity has no US parent, and a standard Art. 28 DPA is available on request. Whether that satisfies a specific requirement under Austrian implementing rules (the DSG) or your sector's own obligations is for your own counsel to determine.
For the compliance file
The facts to check against your own checklist.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Operating entity | PRINT IT! SE, Societas Europaea, Altajská 1568/2, Vršovice, 100 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic |
| Where is data physically processed? | EU-Central, on a dedicated single-tenant machine assigned to you, roughly 330 km from Vienna |
| US CLOUD Act exposure? | None. No US parent, no US region, no US-incorporated entity in the chain. |
| Pricing | $0.79/hour for a single DGX Spark, $1.79/hour for a two-node cluster (128GB unified memory each) |
| Who can access instance content? | Through the instance itself, only holders of your SSH keys; password login is disabled fleet-wide. GPUwerk keeps standard infrastructure administrator access, and under the DPA does not use it on your content except at your request for support or where a legal obligation requires it. |
| Sub-processors for the workload? | None, listed at /legal/sub-processors |
| DPA (Art. 28 GDPR)? | Published at /legal/dpa, no charge |
| Certifications held | None claimed. Confirm directly if your process requires a specific one. |
Questions we get from Austrian buyers
How far is EU-Central from Vienna?
Prague is roughly 330 km from Vienna, closer than most other EU data locations Austrian companies typically evaluate. For interactive workloads, that proximity keeps round-trip latency low compared with hosting further west or overseas.
Which authority regulates GPUwerk's own processing?
GPUwerk is operated by PRINT IT! SE, registered in Prague, so the competent Czech supervisory authority applies to GPUwerk directly, not the Austrian Datenschutzbehörde. Your own company's processing remains under Austrian DSB oversight as normal, the same as with any other EU-based vendor.
Is a DPA available under Art. 28 GDPR?
Yes, published at /legal/dpa at no charge. There are no sub-processors for instance workloads, listed at /legal/sub-processors.
Is this legal advice?
No. This page describes GPUwerk's infrastructure and corporate structure. Whether it satisfies your specific obligations is a question for your own legal counsel.
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