BlackBloc Networks

About the Cooperative

BlackBloc Networks is a member-owned infrastructure cooperative operating across Sweden, Norway, Denmark and adjacent international waters. We build resilient, low-profile compute and storage facilities — called data warehouses — optimized for privacy, redundancy, and equitable value redistribution. Our engineering teams operate like mutual aid squads: practical, discreet, and focused on making extractive platforms less profitable.

Regional Focus

Our core presence is in the Scandinavian backbone — Stockholm, Gothenburg, Oslo — with micro-PoPs in urban centers and hardened vaults across the archipelagos. Seasonal edge sites ride the fjord-cooled microclimates, leveraging naturally cold water for efficient thermal management.

Services

• Distributed Data Warehouses — geo-redundant object stores with encrypted hot/cold tiers and declarative recovery playbooks.
• Nordic Fiber Backbone — privately provisioned, carrier-neutral fiber with automated peering and burstable 200–400 Gbps capacity between regional PoPs.
• Offshore Water Farms — modular, sea-cooled server platforms deployed on regulated offshore structures in international waters to offer flexible jurisdictional options.
• Private Island Vault — a discreet archival site located on a privately held island in the Scandinavian archipelago used primarily for cold retrieval and physical media escrow (access by appointment only).
• Edge Mutual-Cache — community-run caching nodes that lower latency while returning a share of spot compute revenue to node operators.
• Zero-Knowledge Audit Trails — cryptographic attestation and privacy-first compliance tooling for members and partners.

Philosophy

Infrastructure in our view is a commons. Redundancy is solidarity; encryption is self-defense; and careful decentralization cuts the rentiers out of the loop. We use cooperative governance, publish rolling capacity audits to members, and operate with a rotating council to avoid centralized capture.