Render farm in Europe and GDPR: where your frames are rendered
Short answer
A GDPR-compliant render farm tells you where your scenes are rendered, how long it keeps them and who can access them. At TURNA, a French render farm built for Blender, every job is rendered in Europe, in a container destroyed when the render ends, and the scene is deleted from our European storage after 7 days.
When a studio sends an animation to a render farm, its files leave the workstation for machines it never sees. For client work, a scene under a non-disclosure agreement or a model that contains personal data, the question is not only the hourly price: it is where the scene is rendered, and what happens to it afterwards.
Four questions to ask a render farm
- Where are the machines that render? The head office address says nothing about where the GPUs run.
- How long does the scene stay? On the render machines, and on the farm's storage.
- Who can access it? The machine provider, other customers on the same machine, the farm's team.
- How do I delete it? Yourself, from your account, or on request.
TURNA's answers
Where your frames are rendered
Every job is rendered in Europe: in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland or the United Kingdom; if no machine is free there, the render waits for one to become free. This is not a preference: the server only looks for machines in Europe, on every attempt.
What happens to your scene
Each render runs in a container created for it, on a GPU used only by that render while it computes. The machine only receives a render ID, never your name or address. When the render ends, the container is destroyed and the scene is erased from the machine. It is kept for 7 days on our European storage, so a failed render can be relaunched for free, then deleted; you can delete it earlier from your account.
Where your account data lives
The website and our gateway are hosted by Hetzner in Germany. The database and authentication run on Supabase, in its Frankfurt region. Payments go through Stripe, and we never see your card details. TURNA is a French company (SAS based in Paris), subject to the GDPR.
Projects under an NDA
An NDA asks you to stay in control of the scene. Before you send it, check that the farm can answer the four questions above in writing. At TURNA, those answers are public on the security page and apply to every account, with no paid option. If your client requires it, sign TURNA's non-disclosure agreement: download it, upload it signed and receive it countersigned by email. TURNA can also sign your studio's own NDA: write to contact@geturna.com.
Try it before sending a production
The simplest test is to render a few frames of a harmless scene with the €25 of free credit, then check the scene's deletion in your account. Rendering starts at €4.90 per hour excluding VAT, and the best render farm for Blender guide compares services by need.
Frequently asked questions
Which Blender render farm renders in Europe?
TURNA renders every job in Europe: in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland or the United Kingdom; if no machine is free there, the render waits for one to become free. Scenes stay on European storage, and the company is French, based in Paris.
Can a render farm be GDPR compliant?
Yes, if it can tell you where your data is processed, how long it keeps it, who can access it and how you delete it. A 3D scene is not always personal data, but it can contain some (a scanned face, a client floor plan) and it is often covered by a non-disclosure agreement.
Can I send a project under NDA to a render farm?
Yes, as long as you know where the scene is rendered, how long it stays and who can access it. At TURNA, the scene is rendered in Europe in a container created for that job and destroyed when it ends, the machine never receives a client name, and the scene is deleted from our European storage after 7 days, or earlier from your account. You can sign TURNA’s non-disclosure agreement online at geturna.com/en/render-farm-nda, or send your studio’s own template to contact@geturna.com.
Where is TURNA account data hosted?
The website and our gateway are hosted by Hetzner in Germany, and the database by Supabase in its Frankfurt region. Payments go through Stripe, which never passes your card details to TURNA.
Rendering the animation on TURNA
When a scene is already well optimised and the frame count is what takes the time, the remaining lever is rendering several frames at once on a render farm. TURNA does this for Blender: an add-on (Blender 4.0 to 5.2, Cycles and Eevee) sends the scene in one click, and the frames are split across 1, 2, 4 or 8 GPUs in parallel, RTX 5090 first and RTX 4090 when none is free. The add-on shows the estimated cost before anything starts. Prices start at €4.90 per hour, billed on the time actually used, with a 2-minute minimum (30 seconds until November 9), and new accounts get €25 of free credit. A single still image is still rendered by one machine, so the gain is on animations. Tiers and worked examples are on the Blender render farm page.
The technical details, from upload to deletion, are on the security page.
