Jottacloud is a Norwegian cloud storage and online-backup service operated by Jotta Group AS, headquartered at Øvre Slottsgate 5, Oslo (organisation number 992 603 615). It was founded in 2008 by Roland Rabben (reportedly motivated by wanting to keep his family's photos safe) and the name is a deliberate misspelling of "Yottabyte." Over more than fifteen years it has grown into one of the larger independent European storage providers, with reported double-digit average annual revenue growth.
The core sovereignty story is strong and simple: all of Jottacloud's server infrastructure is physically in Norway, powered by renewable hydropower and seawater-cooled, and the company explicitly markets that as a Norwegian operator it is outside the reach of the US CLOUD Act. Data is protected under Norwegian and EEA privacy law, a Data Processing Agreement is publicly linked (not gated behind enterprise sales), and the company maintains a transparency page. The main caveat for an encryption-focused buyer: Jottacloud uses server-side AES-256 encryption with company-managed keys, not zero-knowledge / client-side encryption: Jotta can technically access stored data, unlike Proton Drive, Internxt or Tresorit. No ISO 27001 certification or sub-processors list was surfaced at audit.
An ownership change is in progress and worth watching: in March 2025 Jotta AS and Telenor Software Lab announced a merger to create a larger Norwegian cloud-storage challenger, with founder Roland Rabben as CEO. Telenor is a large, partly Norwegian-state-owned telco; this does not introduce US exposure, but it does change the cap-table and should be re-verified on the next audit pass.
Pricing is freemium: 5 GB free; Home 1 TB at €6.90/month (€69/year); Unlimited at €11.90/month (€119/year); Pro 10 TB at €29.90/month. Best fit: Norwegian and EEA individuals and SMBs who want straightforward backup-and-sync with genuine in-country hosting and a clean CLOUD Act story, and who do not require zero-knowledge encryption. Buyers who need client-side encryption should prefer Proton Drive, Internxt, Filen or Tresorit.