Jottacloud

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.