en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, Icelandic data center operator atNorth announced its entry into the Norwegian market, having acquired a 36-hectare plot of land in the Haugaland Business Park in Norway for the construction of the NOR01 large-scale data center campus. The initial phase of the project is planned with a capacity of 120 MW, which can be expanded to 350 MW in the future, providing space for high-density computing, cloud services, and artificial intelligence infrastructure demands.
NOR01 is atNorth's first data center site in Norway, expanding the company's operational footprint to cover all Nordic countries. The site is located in the Haugaland Business Park in western Norway, surrounded by conditions suitable for deploying high-power density cabinets, liquid cooling systems, and large-scale computing infrastructure, including access to renewable energy, industrial land, a cool climate, and communication connectivity. According to the plan, the campus will be developed in phases, with an initial delivery of 120 MW capacity, ultimately scalable to 350 MW; power availability is expected by 2028. Supporting power infrastructure will include a substation built by Norwegian transmission system operator Statnett and another substation built by regional grid company Fagne. atNorth also plans to explore waste heat reuse with local stakeholders in the business park, channeling heat generated from data center operations into surrounding areas to improve energy efficiency.
The site page shows that the NOR01 campus is designed with a total capacity of 350 MW, targeting an energy efficiency indicator of no more than 1.2 PUE, and will support high-density deployments ready for direct liquid cooling.
Large data centers are spreading from traditional network hubs to regions with more stable power resources, climate conditions more suitable for cooling, and ample land availability. Norway has a high proportion of hydropower and wind power resources, a cool climate that helps reduce cooling energy consumption, and ongoing enhancements to submarine cables and regional backbone networks that strengthen its connection to major European data markets. For AI training, inference, high-performance computing, and cloud platforms, power capacity has become a core variable determining whether new data centers can be established. atNorth's choice to expand in Norway is essentially a continuation of its strategy to fill gaps in the low-carbon infrastructure network serving European computing needs, building on existing nodes in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.
The subsequent progress of the project will depend on power grid access, phased campus development, liquid cooling delivery capabilities, and customer contract signings. As European enterprises' demand for AI computing power, data residency, low-carbon cloud services, and high-density colocation grows, if NOR01 can achieve scale capacity as planned, it will further strengthen the Nordic region's position in Europe's digital infrastructure and provide new regional hosting options for cloud service providers, enterprise customers, and high-performance computing applications.
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