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Nextcloud + Local AI: The End of the Cloud Drive Tax

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Axel V.

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2026-02-08

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Nextcloud + Local AI: The End of the Cloud Drive Tax

The Rental Economy is Broken

Every month, you pay a "Cloud Tax." You pay Google or Microsoft for the privilege of storing your files, and in return, they use those files to train their models and show you ads for things you just talked about.

It’s a bad deal. Actually, it’s an insane deal.

At Leapjuice, we’re ending it. By combining Nextcloud with Local AI, we’re giving you the convenience of the cloud with the privacy of a vault.

Local AI: The Privacy Layer

Nextcloud is already the gold standard for sovereign file sync. But it’s the AI layer that changes the game. Why send your sensitive documents to an API in a different zip code just to get a summary or an image recognition tag?

We run your AI workloads locally on the same metal that holds your data. No API keys. No data leaks. No third-party snooping.

The Infrastructure Punch

To make Local AI feel like the "Big Cloud," you need serious silicon. You can't run this on a legacy VM with shared CPU credits.

  1. Zen 5 Turin Architecture: AI needs compute. We use AMD Zen 5 Turin processors to handle on-device AI tasks in Nextcloud—like face recognition and document indexing—at speeds that rival centralized services.
  2. The 5,000 IOPS Floor: AI is disk-intensive. It’s reading and writing constantly. Our 5,000 IOPS storage standard ensures that your Nextcloud instance doesn't crawl when the AI starts crunching your data.
  3. Cloudflare Enterprise & GCP Backbone: Your "Local" cloud needs to be accessible everywhere. We use the GCP Backbone for the heavy lifting and Cloudflare Enterprise to ensure your file sync is faster than Dropbox, no matter where you are.

Stop Paying the Tax

The "Cloud Drive Tax" is a relic of an era where we didn't have the compute to host ourselves. That era is over.

With Nextcloud on Leapjuice, you get your soul back. Your data stays on your silicon. Your AI stays in your house. And you never have to pay a "per-user" fee to a trillion-dollar company ever again.

Sovereignty isn't expensive. It's an investment.

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