Calling all Alt Clouds, NeoClouds, and builders. Next week we're back with our fall #AltCloud Meetup series in Boston & NYC. Register to attend in the city of your choice (or better yet, join us at both 😉 ): NYC: https://lnkd.in/gipzZ4cZ Boston: https://lnkd.in/gER_9J9T
Datum
Technology, Information and Internet
New York, NY 957 followers
Datum is an open network cloud built for the AI era.
About us
Datum is building the world’s first open network cloud — a neutral place where Alt Clouds, tech incumbents, and digital leaders can programmatically interact with their unique ecosystem. Our mission is to help 1k new clouds thrive in the AI era by unlocking "internet superpowers" for every builder. Our vision is to be the most trusted way for digital ecosystems to interact, with millions of intelligent connections to prove it. Datum has a strong belief in transparency and building trust with builders. Core components are released under the AGPLv3 license, giving users full visibility and audit capability, the ability to adapt and self-host if needed, and long-term confidence without vendor lock-in.
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https://www.datum.net
External link for Datum
- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2024
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120 Broadway
26th Floor
New York, NY 10271, US
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We’re excited to welcome Datum as a Neocloud/Alt Cloud Community Partner and Networking Sponsor of infra/STRUCTURE Summit 2026 Datum is building an open network cloud for AI, providing modern edge networking, connectivity and dedicated CPU/GPU infrastructure for Alt Clouds, AI companies and technology-forward enterprises. Its platform is designed to help the next generation of cloud providers connect workloads, customers and infrastructure across an increasingly distributed ecosystem. Datum will be co-sponsoring our Welcome Networking Reception, bringing the industry together for an evening of conversation and connections as we kick off infra/STRUCTURE Summit. 📍 El Segundo Sol, Wynn Las Vegas 🗓️ October 6 | 7:00 PM 👉 Register now: https://lnkd.in/ggGG6Vwe #Datum #infraSTRUCTURE #AltCloud #Neocloud #AIInfrastructure #DataCenter #DataCentre #DigitalInfrastructure #Networking
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Many great companies got their start in this small, top-floor office right in the heart of New York's FiDi. From Voxel and Packet to Grafana Labs and now Datum, it's been a great place to kickstart big ideas. Now that Datum has more people than fit here comfortably, we're using it for team offsites, video shoots, and demo recordings. Thanks to Piper Skillman for the design help, as usual! If you're looking for the same thing, we're live on Peerspace for daily rentals. Link for more details in comments.
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Headed to infra/STRUCTURE in Las Vegas next week? Nice! If you want to chat about fueling the next 1k clouds (or other fun topics like AX/DX/UX, agent security, and connected CPU or GPU capacity), then you should flag down Jacob Smith Zachary Smith, Nicholas Schmidt ... ... or even Alex Benik (infamous chronicler of urban telco infrastructure).
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Our fall schedule is packed with product drops, meetups, new content, and conferences. Prefer to get Datum updates delivered to your inbox? We send one email each month, straight from Zachary Smith to your inbox. No marketing fluff, we promise. Interested? Subscribe on our website! https://lnkd.in/gV-ciNpx
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Touchdown Riga! Our tireless, world-traveling CEO Zachary Smith is en route to BalticNOG where he'll present on ecosystems, sovereignty, the 'splinternet' and re-imaging the internet for the AI era. Not making it to #BalticNOG? Check out Zac's blog post instead about why a "private by default" mindset might be part of the answer. Link in comments.
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It's awesome to see ClickHouse and Temporal Technologies lean in as "front of shirt" sponsors for Premier League giants Fulham and Crystal Palace. Love it! Clearly our support of Akademisk Boldklub A/S was the inspiration ( 🤣 ). But don't worry, as Zachary Smith always reminds us, you can have a favorite Premier League team *as well as* a favorite 1st division Danish club in Copenhagen. Why not make it AB?! Pro tip for those considering a sports team sponsorship: if you support a 1st division Danish team you get to hustle extra, extra hard. For instance, you can fix the WiFi at the stadium (shout to to Myriad360 for that one), build a new website for the team to supercharge their promotion (appreciate you Felix Widjaja), and rig up a custom Media over QUIC (MoQ) streaming setup for all of your international fans (thanks Brett Mertens). For that last one, sign up to watch at https://ab.dk/en/. No Peacock, Sky, YouTubeTV, Fubo, etc. other subscriptions required. 🚀 🤑 ⚽
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We are back with our OpenFGA in Action series, this time sharing how Datum is using OpenFGA for Datum Cloud and MiloOS. Watch Jose Szychowski, Staff Engineer at Datum, explaining how Datum’s open-source Milo OS uses Kubernetes CRDs and OpenFGA to deliver scalable, fine-grained authorization for cloud providers. By modeling organizations, projects, resources, roles, and groups as a graph, it enables inherited permissions without burdening API services with authorization logic. The result is fast, resilient policy enforcement—powered by reconciliation, caching, and a portable source of truth that can support different authorization backends. https://lnkd.in/dPKQex2J
How Datum uses OpenFGA with Milo OS - José Szychowski
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Hot take: Everyone (people, companies, and yes even AI agents) will need its own private network. This is the future we’re building for at Datum. Zachary Smith sat down with Liam Lawson on The AI Why to discuss what this might look like in the not so distant future. Watch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/e9KP-qnp
I spent an hour with Zachary Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Datum, previously founder of Packet ($335M acquisition) and Voxel ($35M acquisition). We talked about why every person, company, and eventually every AI agent will need its own private network, and why the future internet may look more like Visa than Google. Here are 5 ideas that stuck with me → What would a private network look like for your own AI agents? Watch the full episode with Zachary Smith on The AI Why: https://lnkd.in/e9KP-qnp
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We launched a podcast 🎉 base-layer is a show about the infrastructure decisions that define how software actually works, the ones most engineers inherit without knowing why they were made. Episode 1 is live with Zachary Smith, Co-Founder & CEO of Datum, on why the internet needs an upgrade and what AI invalidates about the assumptions we build on. Check out the August newsletter to learn more about the podcast, SpiceClaw, our new Playground AI Assistant, SpiceDB v1.56.0, and much more.