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Stargate Norway targets renewable-powered 100,000-GPU AI factory

Nscale + Aker + OpenAI

Primary sourcePress release only2025-07-31
Deal structureSovereign AI gigafactory / renewable-powered AI data center
GeographyNarvik, Norway
Infrastructure layersData centers + cloud capacity + power
Disclosed scale100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by end-2026; 230 MW planned capacity, with ambition to add 290 MW

Why it matters

The strategic read

Extends the Stargate model beyond the U.S. into sovereign European infrastructure, pairing OpenAI demand with renewable hydropower geography and European regulatory positioning.

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What was disclosed

  1. 01

    Nscale, Aker and OpenAI announced Stargate Norway in Narvik.

  2. 02

    The facility targets 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026.

  3. 03

    The site is planned for 230 MW of capacity, with ambition to expand by another 290 MW.

  4. 04

    Nscale says the project is powered entirely by renewable energy and aligned with European sovereign-AI workloads.

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What is known—and what is not

Project announced publicly; final customer contracts, full capex, grid agreements and deployment milestones are not all public.