Sam Altman’s Openai will expand to Europe with the construction of a new data center in Norway. The Stargate project will require an AI intelligence infrastructure with 230MW of renewable energy.
Sam Altman’s Openai will expand in Europe by providing a data center in Norway for the Stargate project. Openai will launch a 230MW facility based on renewable energy to expand in addition to 290MW. The data center will be located in the town of Kvandal in Narvik, Norvic, Norwegian.
Nvidia Europe announced that a highly limited position for AI tasks is in partnership and approaching. The data center will also cooperate with local academic institutions for research.
Norway offers cheap hydroelectric power and positive climate
The location was selected for a relative seclusion and low electric network connection that can provide low -cost renewable hydroelectric energy.
Nscale, Aker Asa and Openai, North Norway, Narvik’te a Nvidia GPU AI Gigafactory Stargate Norway is releasing.
Strengthened with 100 % renewable energy, the facility will provide safe and scalable infrastructure for sovereign workloads and support up to 100,000 pic.twitter.com/av02ouuzcly
– Nvidia Europe (@nvidiaeu) 31 July 2025
While the EU AI is delayed on the consumer side, the region is part of the infrastructure growth urge.
DATA CENTER NSCALE GLOBAL HOLDINGS LTD. and Norwegian partner Aker Asa. The project will have a joint attempt between Nscale and Aker.
‘To announce Stargate Norway and present one of the first European AI Gigafactory to the market is a strategic milestone for the region and increases its role in the global AI view,‘Nscale CEO Josh Payne said.
‘The dominant, scalable and sustainable infrastructure is now necessary to remain competitive. In Europe, we are proud to be a partner of the team’s comprehensive experience and impressive record in order to provide an increase in economic and productivity.He said.
The data center expansion under the Stargate brand is part of its efforts to invest $ 500 billion in US data centers. Openai touched Softbank Group and Oracle Corp. for data centers in the US region.
Afterwards, Openai expanded the program to the Middle East and helped to establish a large data centers in the United Arab Emirates. The initiative will first choose Europe and offer 100K NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026.
The new data center announcement arrived just a few days after Openai’s help from Oracle. agreement For 2m AI compatible chips.
Openai selects Norway as its target of growing data center
Norway is expected to shoot 2.15B $ The current year in new data center investments. The place was selected for its climate and recently increased multiple data center types.
The country’s government focused on high working time data centers and AI infrastructure, while additional supervision on the creation of new data centers that want to limit the access of some crypto currency miners.
Country in June announced A pressure approaching energy intensive crypto mining. Norway’s data center approach also mimic the tendency to expand its infrastructure capacity.
Data centers in Europe show regional features from energy access to positive connection centers. EU tried to grow AI infrastructureTouching with places suitable for the growth of US -based companies. Although Norway is outside the euro zone and relying on its own regulations, it benefits from the general tendency.
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