Ethical Stack

OVHcloud AI Endpoints

Serverless inference API for a catalog of open-weight models hosted by OVHcloud. Model license and upstream corpus provenance are distinct from hosting.

Score calculation

(7 + 5) ÷ 2 = 6.0

2 of six dimensions rated. Unrated dimensions and BDS status are excluded.

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Setup details

OVHcloud operates API and infrastructure; selected catalog models may originate with third parties.

Energy

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OVHcloud publishes audited data-center environmental indicators and an Environmental Impact Tracker for listed cloud services, but its announcement does not establish an equivalent usage-linked footprint for AI Endpoints.

Reasoning & sources

The corporate tracker can help assess covered infrastructure, yet the published product scope does not confirm model- or request-level AI Endpoints allocation. Check whether the selected endpoint is included before using those totals; otherwise request a service- and region-specific estimate.

Request-level electricity, emissions, and water use remain unknown.

Training rights

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Hosting service claims do not use customer prompts to train models; this does not substantiate licenses or provenance for model pretraining data.

Reasoning & sources

Hosting service claims do not use customer prompts to train models; this does not substantiate licenses or provenance for model pretraining data. Select the model first and review its license plus corpus-provenance disclosures; prompt no-training terms do not clear the model’s original dataset.

Review each model license and source-data disclosures independently.

Privacy

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OVHcloud states it does not use customer data to train/improve models and describes zero data retention except billing data.

Reasoning & sources

OVHcloud states ZDR and no model-training use apart from billing records, but reviewed evidence is a company product claim without independent audit. Check the exact API/web surface, plan, region, retention setting, routing, and stateful features in the applicable terms before sending sensitive content.

OVHcloud states ZDR and no model-training use apart from billing records, but reviewed evidence is a company product claim without independent audit.

Check current product-specific terms, logs/abuse handling, region and any stateful/batch feature exceptions.

Openness

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OVHcloud offers an open-weight model catalog through its managed API; model weights may be open, but the service runtime is not.

Reasoning & sources

The catalog offers open weights, but the managed API itself is not portable. Check whether the chosen model’s weights and license permit inspection or relocation, and whether the serving runtime moves too; API compatibility alone is not an open stack.

The catalog offers open weights, but the managed API itself is not portable.

No claim can be made from silence; additional direct documentation or independently verified records are needed.

Worker treatment

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OVHcloud’s sustainability statement and group reporting describe company-wide workforce and supply-chain policies, but the reviewed material does not disclose worker outcomes specifically for AI Endpoints or model-data contractors.

Reasoning & sources

Company-wide reporting is useful context but cannot establish conditions for the vendors that label, maintain, or operate this particular service. Ask for AI-service supplier coverage, worker grievance and remediation results, and independent audit scope before treating the policy as stronger assurance.

Conditions for contractors, annotators, and model evaluators remain unknown.

Government & military

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OVHcloud’s FY2026 half-year results say it is developing a Defence vertical after approaches from European defence ministries and cite defense use cases; they do not name an AI Endpoints contract or deployment.

Reasoning & sources

This is concrete defense-sector commercial intent, not proof that the hosted AI endpoint is deployed for those use cases. The link to this product remains unverified until an award, customer, and AI service scope are identified; the announced vertical merits direct procurement follow-up.

No inference about undisclosed customers or contracts is possible from silence.

BDS status

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We did not find OVH Groupe SA among the named targets in the two official BNC campaign lists. This is a limited list check, not BDS approval.

Reasoning & sources

OVH Groupe SA is not a named target in the checked lists, but BDS uses selective campaigns, so absence cannot establish a clean record. Your selected model, cloud and billing route can introduce other companies into the purchase.

This review covers the named targets in the BNC consumer/pressure guide and No Tech campaign, not every BDS campaign, local group, investment or supplier. Lists and ownership can change. A company’s absence from these lists is not an endorsement or proof that it has no relevant relationships.

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