Palantir in Europe: 40 documented customer relationships across 14 countries

Palantir Technologies has documented 40 customer relationships across 14 European countries, according to a public-source review by infrastructure-observation platform CipherCue. The review, which relies on contract records, parliamentary records, official announcements and independent reporting, covers public-sector deployments in 12 countries plus Europol, including the UK Ministry of Defence, NHS England and the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, with status labels distinguishing confirmed active deployments from pilots, partnerships and blocked procurements.

CipherCue / is a European infrastructure-observation platform. Most of what we publish is derived from our own continuous scanning. This article is different: it is a public-source review of one vendor's European footprint, assembled from contract records, parliamentary records, official announcements and independent reporting, with a small number of technical corroborations. Palantir Technologies is a United States company founded in 2003 with early funding from the CIA's venture arm In-Q-Tel. Its principal products are Gotham used by intelligence, defence and police agencies , Foundry used across commercial industries and increasingly in government , Apollo deployment and operational tooling and AIP Palantir's platform for integrating AI models with governed enterprise data, operational workflows, applications and automations . The article names the European organisations we could document, labels the evidence class behind each, and notes where a public decision has been taken to reduce, replace or block Palantir use. Two limitations shape everything below. First, Palantir does not publish a customer list. Tenants sit behind private hostnames, some but not all of which live under palantirfoundry.com, and free certificate-transparency interfaces time out on that domain during enumeration. The article therefore relies mainly on desk research rather than probes, and a reader can reasonably describe that as a lit review with a small technical corroboration layer. Second, aggregator sites bloomberry.com, appsruntheworld.com and Palantir's own Impact case studies list further European entities not documented here; someone including those sources uncritically would produce a larger list. We chose the narrower cut because each entry below has a clickable source and a labelled evidence class. Public sector: defence, intelligence, police, health, central government Public-sector entries below span twelve countries plus Europol: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Poland, Ukraine, Belgium, Lithuania and Norway. Not all entries are current active deployments. Each row carries a status label to distinguish confirmed deployments from pilots, partnerships, letters of intent and blocked or historical procurements. | Organisation | Country | Product | Status | Public since | Source | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Ministry of Defence | United Kingdom GB | Foundry | Confirmed active deployment | 2020; enterprise agreement Dec 2022; reported ~£240m EA Dec 2025 | | Official customer statement NHS England https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/nhs-federated-data-platform/security-privacy/contract-explainer/ Independent reporting Computing , Jun 2026 https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/government/palantir-awarded-new-9m-contract-as-mps-sound-the-alarm Independent reporting City AM , 2025 https://www.cityam.com/fca-hands-palantir-sensitive-data-in-ai-crime-push/ Independent reporting The Nerve , Feb 2026 https://thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-government-contracts-size-nuclear-deterrent-atomic-peter-thiel-louis-mosley Independent research Privacy International , 2021 https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/All%20roads%20lead%20to%20Palantir%20with%20Palantir%20response%20v3.pdf Palantir announcement https://blog.palantir.com/accelerating-patient-care-with-the-nhs-f784f44b5818 Independent reporting The Register , Jun 2026 https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/06/04/palantir-wins-9m-contract-to-run-uk-firearms-licensing-cia-backed-biz-to-hold-gun-bomb-and-poison-records/5251132 Independent reporting Euronews , Jun 2026 https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/06/16/dgsi-drops-palantir-for-french-firm-says-sebastien-lecornu Academic research Information, Communication and Society , 2024 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2410255 Academic research Information, Communication and Society , 2024 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2410255 Independent reporting The Local , 2025 https://www.thelocal.de/20250805/what-is-palantirs-gotham-software-and-why-do-german-police-want-it Independent reporting Heise , 2025 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Federal-Council-calls-for-rapid-deployment-for-the-police-10325677.html Independent reporting Security Insider https://www.security-insider.de/palantir-analyse-software-vera-datenschutz-polizei-einsatz-bayern-a-c3deb5d878519bb833591a71fa5226eb/ Independent reporting Cybernews , Jun 2026 https://cybernews.com/tech/dutch-defense-palantir/ Independent reporting NL Times , 2025 https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/22/dutch-police-also-use-controversial-ai-intelligence-software-american-palantir Independent reporting The Objective , Jul 2026 https://theobjective.com/espana/2026-07-13/informe-inteligencia-militar-vulnerabilidad-espana-palantir/ Palantir announcement via BusinessWire , Dec 2020 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201207005526/en/Greek-Government-and-Palantir-Reaffirm-Digital-Transformation-Partnership Independent reporting Bloomberg , Oct 2025 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-27/poland-signs-palantir-anduril-deals-amid-record-army-spending Palantir announcement, 2023 https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2023/Palantir-and-Ministry-of-Digital-Transformation-of-Ukraine-strike-reconstruction-partnership Independent reporting TIME , 2024 https://time.com/6691662/ai-ukraine-war-palantir/ Independent reporting Defense News , Jan 2026 https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/01/21/ukraine-feeds-sensitive-military-data-to-palantir-ai-for-training/ Official customer announcement NCIA , Mar 2025 https://www.ncia.nato.int/newsroom/news/nato-acquires-aienabled-warfighting-system Official customer statement Lithuanian MoD https://kam.lt/en/u-s-palantir-technologies-looks-to-establishing-regional-big-data-competence-technical-hub-in-vilnius/ ; Independent reporting LRT https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1970306/us-palantir-technologies-to-set-up-regional-hub-in-vilnius Independent research Statewatch / digit.site36.net https://digit.site36.net/2020/06/11/europol-uses-palantir/ Academic research Information, Communication and Society , 2024 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2325533 Private sector: manufacturers, banks, insurers, pharma, media Every private-sector row below is a Foundry deployment or a Foundry-family relationship. AIP appears twice as an add-on to existing Foundry customers Stellantis renewal in 2026, BP in 2024 but not as a standalone European sale in this dataset. Gotham does not appear in the private-sector table. | Organisation | Country | Product | Status | Public since | Source | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Airbus Skywise | Netherlands / EU NL/EU | Foundry | Confirmed active deployment | 2015; renewed Feb 2026 | | Palantir announcement via BusinessWire , Mar 2026 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260330921521/en/Palantir-Technologies-Announces-the-Renewal-and-Expansion-of-Its-Partnership-With-Stellantis-for-an-Additional-Five-Years Palantir announcement via BusinessWire , Feb 2022 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220210005312/en/Palantir-Technologies-Extends-Partnership-with-Ferrari-to-Bring-Data-Driven-Performance-Decisions-to-Race-Operations Official customer press release Merck KGaA , 2018 https://www.emdgroup.com/en/news/syntropy-19-11-2018.html Independent reporting Rigzone , Sep 2024 https://www.rigzone.com/news/bp taps palantir for new ai capabilities-10-sep-2024-178058-article/ Palantir announcement case study https://www.palantir.com/impact/rwe-pharma-sanofi/ Independent reporting SWI swissinfo , 2026 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/war-peace/why-palantir-is-becoming-a-risky-bet-for-switzerland/90666335 Palantir announcement case study https://www.palantir.com/impact/swiss-re/ Palantir announcement via BusinessWire , Apr 2021 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210420005521/en/Palantir-and-Ringier-Extend-Digital-Transformation-Partnership Palantir announcement, Dec 2023 https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2023/Palantir-Renews-Digital-Transformation-Partnership-with-UniCredit-for-Another-Five-Years/ Palantir announcement via BusinessWire , Mar 2025 https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250304819606/en/Palantir-Partners-with-Societe-Generale Palantir announcement case study https://www.palantir.com/impact/sonnedix/ ; DNS observation 20 Jul 2026 abinbev.palantirfoundry.com resolved to an Azure address on the observation date. A resolving hostname is not proof of a current commercial contract or active use. Palantir announcement case study https://www.palantir.com/impact/axel-springer/ Reported relationships not independently confirmed The following entry did not meet the evidence standard applied to the tables above and is listed separately. | Organisation | Country | Reported claim | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Belgian federal government De Wever administration | Belgium BE | Belgian media and political commentary have alleged contacts or a confidential arrangement between the federal government and Palantir. No public procurement notice, official contract announcement or direct government confirmation was identified during this review. | | Tenant subdomains and infrastructure observations Some Foundry environments use customer-specific hostnames beneath palantirfoundry.com. Palantir also supports custom or customer-managed domains, so absence of a resolving palantirfoundry.com hostname for a company is weak negative evidence. Two customer-named palantirfoundry.com hostnames resolved during testing on 20 July 2026: sonnedix.palantirfoundry.com returned an A record pointing to AWS eu-west-3, alongside Palantir's published Sonnedix case study. abinbev.palantirfoundry.com returned an A record pointing to a Microsoft Azure address. Palantir has not publicly confirmed AB InBev as a customer, and DNS resolution does not by itself establish a current commercial contract, active use, product scope or start date. AB InBev is therefore labelled "Infrastructure observation" above rather than as a confirmed customer. A third Palantir-related hostname was identified in Merck KGaA's certificate-transparency history under the merckgroup.com apex: foundry-api-extender.p.uptimize.merckgroup.com . This corroborates Merck KGaA's own 2018 disclosure of the Syntropy joint venture. The other candidates tried during research Airbus, Stellantis, Ferrari, BP, Sanofi, Novartis, Swiss Re, Ringier, UniCredit, Société Générale, UK MoD, NHS England, FCA, DGSI, Rheinmetall, Helsing, several Länder police forces returned NXDOMAIN under obvious tenant-name variants. That does not mean those customers have no tenant; tenant slugs are not required to match the company name, and Palantir supports custom domains. Full enumeration of the palantirfoundry.com namespace would require sustained certificate-transparency ingestion which is out of scope for this article. Existing deployments, blocked procurements and replacement initiatives Five European decisions between April and July 2026, together with one earlier historical cancellation, are relevant to Palantir's near-term footprint in Europe. They are materially different from each other and should not be lumped together as a single withdrawal trend. Existing deployments being replaced or reduced | Organisation | Country | Status | Source | |---|---|---|---| | DGSI | France FR | Replacement by ChapsVision announced June 2026, six months after the December 2025 renewal. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu attributed the decision to sovereign-dependency concerns. | | Independent reporting Cybernews https://cybernews.com/tech/dutch-defense-palantir/ Prospective procurements blocked or awarded elsewhere | Organisation | Country | Status | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Bundeswehr | Germany DE | Prospective procurement not awarded to Palantir. Vice Admiral Thomas Daum publicly stated in April 2026 that Palantir was "not an option"; Bundeswehr shortlisting included Almato + Orcrist Germany and ChapsVision France . | | Independent reporting The Register https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/05/28/london-cops-post-300m-tech-shopping-list-after-palantir-contract-blocked/5247685 Government guidance affecting future renewals or contracts | Organisation | Country | Status | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Spanish state-controlled entities | Spain ES | Reporting in July 2026 said the Spanish government had instructed certain state-controlled companies including Telefónica, Indra and Navantia in the coverage not to enter new Palantir contracts or renew existing ones. Some defence-related arrangements remained under discussion or continued until their existing expiry dates; CIFAS's existing contract runs until reported November 2026 expiry. The reporting does not establish a universal published legal prohibition. | | Historical cancellations | Organisation | Country | Status | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Norwegian Police Politidirektoratet | Norway NO | Gotham project cancelled February 2020 after reported spending of roughly NOK 100m / €9m. The project reportedly never went live. Predates the 2026 cluster above. | | Delivery and value concerns separate from sovereignty Some Palantir contracts are drawing criticism that has nothing to do with US ownership. The £330m NHS Federated Data Platform contract is drawing independent delivery-and-value criticism: reporting by Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a-waste-of-time-inside-palantir-nhs-peter-mandelson quotes internal NHS analysts describing the platform in critical terms, and select-committee submissions have called for review on delivery-value grounds. The Metropolitan Police case likewise reads as a procurement dispute with an active High Court claim by Palantir rather than a pure sovereignty rejection. Both examples broaden the picture: European Palantir contracts can come apart for procurement or execution reasons, not only for sovereignty. not awarded procurement blocked replace / reduce reported guidance Ireland: no publicly documented deployment, plus an ISIF shareholding We found no publicly documented Irish deployment meeting this article's evidence threshold. The absence of public evidence does not prove that no undisclosed deployment exists; it means none surfaced during research using the sources listed in the methodology. The obvious candidates An Garda Síochána, Defence Forces, HSE, Revenue Commissioners, Ryanair, AIB, Bank of Ireland, CRH, Kerry Group, Kingspan, Smurfit Kappa, Flutter, DAA returned no procurement notice, official announcement or credible named-source report. Two Irish-adjacent items are worth mentioning even though neither is a customer relationship. The Irish Strategic Investment Fund, the state's sovereign wealth arm managed by the NTMA, holds a passive equity stake in Palantir Technologies. Sinn Féin justice spokesperson Matt Carthy TD raised the shareholding in the Dáil in December 2025; the Tánaiste defended it. Sinn Féin's public statement https://sinnfein.ie/news/simon-harris-defends-irish-state-investment-in-palantir-despite-role-in-genocide-matt-carthy-td/ put the value at roughly €1m at that point. Later coverage by The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/12/11/palantir-no-stranger-to-controversy-at-home-or-abroad/ Dec 2024 and The Canary https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/07/12/palantir-irish-government/ Jul 2026 reported larger figures at different points in time. The canonical source for holdings and valuation is the NTMA / ISIF annual report; the figures used above are the values reported by the sources cited and should be reconciled against the ISIF annual report before republication. An ISIF equity holding is not a purchase or deployment of Palantir software. Separately, the Police Service of Northern Ireland maintains a public Freedom of Information disclosure log https://www.psni.police.uk/foi-disclosure-log/palantir for Palantir-related queries and returns "Neither Confirm Nor Deny" to every request. That is the standard National Police Chiefs' Council response used across UK forces. It is not a confirmation of use and it is not a denial. Amnesty International UK is separately campaigning to keep Palantir out of Northern Ireland's health service https://www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/northern-ireland-minister-must-keep-palantir-out-of-northern-irelands-health-service/ , which is administered separately from NHS England under the Stormont Executive; the Federated Data Platform contract does not extend to Northern Ireland. Geographic concentration Grouping the entries above by the country of the awarding public body or the country of the private customer's headquarters: | Country | Public-sector entries | Private-sector entries | Total | |---|---|---|---| | United Kingdom GB | 8 | 1 BP | 9 | | Germany DE | 3 Hessen, NRW, Bavaria | 2 Merck KGaA, Axel Springer | 5 | | Netherlands NL | 2 MoD, Politie | 2 Airbus SE, Stellantis N.V. | 4 | | Ukraine UA | 3 | 0 | 3 | | Switzerland CH | 0 | 3 Novartis, Swiss Re, Ringier | 3 | | France FR | 1 DGSI | 2 Sanofi, Société Générale | 3 | | Italy IT | 0 | 2 Ferrari, UniCredit | 2 | | Denmark DK | 2 POL-INTEL, PET-INTEL | 0 | 2 | | Belgium BE | 1 NATO SHAPE | 1 AB InBev, infrastructure observation | 2 | | Spain ES | 1 CIFAS | 1 Sonnedix operating | 2 | | Lithuania LT | 1 MoD hub, partnership | 0 | 1 | | Greece GR | 1 | 0 | 1 | | Poland PL | 1 LOI | 0 | 1 | | Norway NO | 1 | 0 | 1 | | European Union EU | 1 Europol | 0 | 1 | The UK sits at nine, eight of which are in the public sector; the next country Germany is at five, and everything after that at four or below. The UK Ministry of Defence entered a Palantir enterprise agreement reported at approximately £240m; alongside the agreement, Palantir committed to invest up to £1.5bn in its UK presence and ecosystem. The £1.5bn is a Palantir investment commitment, not UK government contract revenue, and should not be counted as UK public-sector spend on Palantir. Germany's five entries include three Länder-level police forces Hessen, NRW, Bavaria and two private companies Merck KGaA, Axel Springer ; the Bundeswehr federal defence procurement was not awarded to Palantir. Switzerland reaches three entirely through the private sector Novartis, Swiss Re, Ringier . Sonnedix illustrates the difficulty of assigning a single country to a multinational deployment: the parent is headquartered in London, the operating base is in Madrid, and the resolving tenant hostname sonnedix.palantirfoundry.com , 20 July 2026 points at AWS eu-west-3 in Paris. Country in a European corporate table is a choice of measurement, not a fact. Method note Inclusion criterion. An entry appears in the tables above when it is supported by at least one of: - a procurement or parliamentary record; - an official announcement by Palantir or the customer organisation; - credible named-source reporting in a reputable outlet; - a direct technical infrastructure observation DNS or certificate transparency . Each row carries a status label so evidence class is visible per entry. Labels used: Confirmed active deployment; Confirmed deployment, current status unclear; Pilot; Strategic partnership / proposed regional hub; Letter of intent; Infrastructure observation; Existing deployment being replaced or reduced. Reported relationships that did not meet the evidence threshold are listed in a separate table rather than counted in the main total. Technical observations are supporting evidence, not proof of a current commercial contract. A resolving palantirfoundry.com hostname does not by itself establish current use, product scope, or contract start date. NXDOMAIN for a company-name guess is weak negative evidence and does not establish absence of a deployment: Palantir supports custom customer-managed domains and tenant slugs do not necessarily match the company name. Publicly linked does not always mean currently active customer. Contract status may be unknown; pilots may not convert; letters of intent may lapse without a signed contract. The dataset is a dated public-source snapshot at 20 July 2026. Excluded from the tables: aggregator sites bloomberry.com, appsruntheworld.com, TheirStack, WebSets which list customers without primary sourcing; Wikipedia and analyst blogs when they were the sole source. Both were used as lead generators for follow-up research but never as sole citation. Where a City AM, The Register, Cybernews, NL Times, TIME, Bloomberg or similar outlet is cited, the label "Independent reporting" is used because the outlet is not a primary participant in the relationship. If a European organisation's publicly documented Palantir relationship has been missed, we will consider adding it: contact research@ciphercue.com mailto:research@ciphercue.com with the source link. Summary The public record shows that Palantir has established a broad but uneven European footprint across defence, policing, health, manufacturing, finance, pharmaceuticals and media. The strength of the underlying evidence varies: some relationships are confirmed active deployments, while others are pilots, partnerships, letters of intent or technical observations. Recent European decisions also do not form a single withdrawal trend. They include the replacement of existing systems France, DGSI , efforts to reduce future dependency Netherlands MoD , prospective procurements not awarded or blocked Bundeswehr, Metropolitan Police , reported government guidance affecting some state-controlled entities Spain , and delivery-value criticism of existing contracts NHS Federated Data Platform . This article should be read as a dated map of publicly documented relationships, not as a definitive list of every current Palantir customer in Europe. Snapshot as at 20 July 2026.