diff --git a/server/cmd/museum/main.go b/server/cmd/museum/main.go
index 84c34189d..8ccb43cc0 100644
--- a/server/cmd/museum/main.go
+++ b/server/cmd/museum/main.go
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ func main() {
 	pushHandler := &api.PushHandler{PushController: pushController}
 	privateAPI.POST("/push/token", pushHandler.AddToken)
 
-	embeddingController := &embeddingCtrl.Controller{Repo: embeddingRepo, AccessCtrl: accessCtrl, ObjectCleanupController: objectCleanupController, S3Config: s3Config, FileRepo: fileRepo, CollectionRepo: collectionRepo, QueueRepo: queueRepo, TaskLockingRepo: taskLockingRepo, HostName: hostName}
+	embeddingController := embeddingCtrl.New(embeddingRepo, accessCtrl, objectCleanupController, s3Config, queueRepo, taskLockingRepo, fileRepo, collectionRepo, hostName)
 	embeddingHandler := &api.EmbeddingHandler{Controller: embeddingController}
 
 	privateAPI.PUT("/embeddings", embeddingHandler.InsertOrUpdate)
diff --git a/server/configurations/local.yaml b/server/configurations/local.yaml
index 196c56f1f..a3cb71c9d 100644
--- a/server/configurations/local.yaml
+++ b/server/configurations/local.yaml
@@ -125,6 +125,16 @@ s3:
         endpoint:
         region:
         bucket:
+    wasabi-eu-central-2-embeddings:
+        key:
+        secret:
+        endpoint:
+        region:
+        bucket:
+    # Embeddings bucket is used for storing embeddings and other derived data from a file.
+    # By default, it is the same as the hot storage bucket.
+    # embeddings-bucket: wasabi-eu-central-2-embeddings
+
     # If true, enable some workarounds to allow us to use a local minio instance
     # for object storage.
     #
diff --git a/server/pkg/controller/embedding/controller.go b/server/pkg/controller/embedding/controller.go
index e8d6c347a..0212fb0de 100644
--- a/server/pkg/controller/embedding/controller.go
+++ b/server/pkg/controller/embedding/controller.go
@@ -46,6 +46,24 @@ type Controller struct {
 	CollectionRepo          *repo.CollectionRepository
 	HostName                string
 	cleanupCronRunning      bool
+	embeddingS3Client       *s3.S3
+	embeddingBucket         *string
+}
+
+func New(repo *embedding.Repository, accessCtrl access.Controller, objectCleanupController *controller.ObjectCleanupController, s3Config *s3config.S3Config, queueRepo *repo.QueueRepository, taskLockingRepo *repo.TaskLockRepository, fileRepo *repo.FileRepository, collectionRepo *repo.CollectionRepository, hostName string) *Controller {
+	return &Controller{
+		Repo:                    repo,
+		AccessCtrl:              accessCtrl,
+		ObjectCleanupController: objectCleanupController,
+		S3Config:                s3Config,
+		QueueRepo:               queueRepo,
+		TaskLockingRepo:         taskLockingRepo,
+		FileRepo:                fileRepo,
+		CollectionRepo:          collectionRepo,
+		HostName:                hostName,
+		embeddingS3Client:       s3Config.GetEmbeddingsS3Client(),
+		embeddingBucket:         s3Config.GetEmbeddingsBucket(),
+	}
 }
 
 func (c *Controller) InsertOrUpdate(ctx *gin.Context, req ente.InsertOrUpdateEmbeddingRequest) (*ente.Embedding, error) {
@@ -245,7 +263,7 @@ func (c *Controller) deleteEmbedding(qItem repo.QueueItem) {
 	}
 	prefix := c.getEmbeddingObjectPrefix(ownerID, fileID)
 
-	err = c.ObjectCleanupController.DeleteAllObjectsWithPrefix(prefix, c.S3Config.GetHotDataCenter())
+	err = c.ObjectCleanupController.DeleteAllObjectsWithPrefix(prefix, c.S3Config.GetEmbeddingsDataCenter())
 	if err != nil {
 		ctxLogger.WithError(err).Error("Failed to delete all objects")
 		return
@@ -277,9 +295,9 @@ func (c *Controller) getEmbeddingObjectPrefix(userID int64, fileID int64) string
 // uploadObject uploads the embedding object to the object store and returns the object size
 func (c *Controller) uploadObject(obj ente.EmbeddingObject, key string) (int, error) {
 	embeddingObj, _ := json.Marshal(obj)
-	uploader := s3manager.NewUploaderWithClient(c.S3Config.GetHotS3Client())
+	uploader := s3manager.NewUploaderWithClient(c.embeddingS3Client)
 	up := s3manager.UploadInput{
-		Bucket: c.S3Config.GetHotBucket(),
+		Bucket: c.embeddingBucket,
 		Key:    &key,
 		Body:   bytes.NewReader(embeddingObj),
 	}
@@ -301,7 +319,7 @@ func (c *Controller) getEmbeddingObjectsParallel(objectKeys []string) ([]ente.Em
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
 	var errs []error
 	embeddingObjects := make([]ente.EmbeddingObject, len(objectKeys))
-	downloader := s3manager.NewDownloaderWithClient(c.S3Config.GetHotS3Client())
+	downloader := s3manager.NewDownloaderWithClient(c.embeddingS3Client)
 
 	for i, objectKey := range objectKeys {
 		wg.Add(1)
@@ -338,7 +356,7 @@ type embeddingObjectResult struct {
 func (c *Controller) getEmbeddingObjectsParallelV2(userID int64, dbEmbeddingRows []ente.Embedding) ([]embeddingObjectResult, error) {
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
 	embeddingObjects := make([]embeddingObjectResult, len(dbEmbeddingRows))
-	downloader := s3manager.NewDownloaderWithClient(c.S3Config.GetHotS3Client())
+	downloader := s3manager.NewDownloaderWithClient(c.embeddingS3Client)
 
 	for i, dbEmbeddingRow := range dbEmbeddingRows {
 		wg.Add(1)
@@ -416,7 +434,7 @@ func (c *Controller) downloadObject(ctx context.Context, objectKey string, downl
 	var obj ente.EmbeddingObject
 	buff := &aws.WriteAtBuffer{}
 	_, err := downloader.DownloadWithContext(ctx, buff, &s3.GetObjectInput{
-		Bucket: c.S3Config.GetHotBucket(),
+		Bucket: c.embeddingBucket,
 		Key:    &objectKey,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/server/pkg/utils/s3config/s3config.go b/server/pkg/utils/s3config/s3config.go
index 9b273bd61..02a7fbd26 100644
--- a/server/pkg/utils/s3config/s3config.go
+++ b/server/pkg/utils/s3config/s3config.go
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ type S3Config struct {
 	hotDC string
 	// Secondary (hot) data center
 	secondaryHotDC string
+	// Bucket for storing ml embeddings & preview files
+	embeddingsDC string
 	// A map from data centers to S3 configurations
 	s3Configs map[string]*aws.Config
 	// A map from data centers to pre-created S3 clients
@@ -71,6 +73,7 @@ var (
 	dcWasabiEuropeCentralDeprecated   string = "wasabi-eu-central-2"
 	dcWasabiEuropeCentral_v3          string = "wasabi-eu-central-2-v3"
 	dcSCWEuropeFrance_v3              string = "scw-eu-fr-v3"
+	dcWasabiEuropeCentral             string = "wasabi-eu-central-2-embeddings"
 )
 
 // Number of days that the wasabi bucket is configured to retain objects.
@@ -86,9 +89,9 @@ func NewS3Config() *S3Config {
 }
 
 func (config *S3Config) initialize() {
-	dcs := [5]string{
+	dcs := [6]string{
 		dcB2EuropeCentral, dcSCWEuropeFranceLockedDeprecated, dcWasabiEuropeCentralDeprecated,
-		dcWasabiEuropeCentral_v3, dcSCWEuropeFrance_v3}
+		dcWasabiEuropeCentral_v3, dcSCWEuropeFrance_v3, dcWasabiEuropeCentral}
 
 	config.hotDC = dcB2EuropeCentral
 	config.secondaryHotDC = dcWasabiEuropeCentral_v3
@@ -99,6 +102,12 @@ func (config *S3Config) initialize() {
 		config.secondaryHotDC = hs2
 		log.Infof("Hot storage: %s (secondary: %s)", hs1, hs2)
 	}
+	config.embeddingsDC = config.hotDC
+	embeddingsDC := viper.GetString("s3.embeddings-bucket")
+	if embeddingsDC != "" && array.StringInList(embeddingsDC, dcs[:]) {
+		config.embeddingsDC = embeddingsDC
+		log.Infof("Embeddings bucket: %s", embeddingsDC)
+	}
 
 	config.buckets = make(map[string]string)
 	config.s3Configs = make(map[string]*aws.Config)
@@ -171,6 +180,18 @@ func (config *S3Config) GetHotS3Client() *s3.S3 {
 	return &s3Client
 }
 
+func (config *S3Config) GetEmbeddingsDataCenter() string {
+	return config.embeddingsDC
+}
+func (config *S3Config) GetEmbeddingsBucket() *string {
+	return config.GetBucket(config.embeddingsDC)
+}
+
+func (config *S3Config) GetEmbeddingsS3Client() *s3.S3 {
+	s3Client := config.GetS3Client(config.embeddingsDC)
+	return &s3Client
+}
+
 // Return the name of the hot Backblaze data center
 func (config *S3Config) GetHotBackblazeDC() string {
 	return dcB2EuropeCentral