London, UK — March 6th 2025 — Polar today announced the construction of a new multi-phase data center in Tørdal, Norway. It will be purpose-built for AI workloads and powered entirely by renewable hydroelectric energy. Norway has Europe's lowest cost on electricity combined with minimal taxation, giving a very favorable total cost. We deliver uptime and SLA compliance with up to Tier III. OpenAI has unveiled Stargate Norway, a new data center to help power massive AI demand. Facility to scale up to 290MW, powering over 100,000 Nvidia GPUs by 2026. Norwegian researchers and startups to gain early access; EU rules still apply indirectly. Joint venture with Nscale and Aker to support. The Norway data center market is expanding with 7 upcoming data centers in the pipeline and strong investor interest from global technology and infrastructure companies.
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