Data center campus
Stargate Norway (Kvandal / Narvik)
Stargate Norway is an AI data center campus developed by Nscale in Nordland, Narvik. 0.23 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.
Under construction · Nscale · greenfield · other · Narvik, Nordland, Norway
Capacity: announced vs energized
Announced-to-energized gap: 0.23 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.
Promised online: 2026. 3 months away. Claimed by Nscale, Aker and OpenAI (source).
| Source | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Announced | 0.23 GW | 2025-07-31 | reported | press release |
| Announced | 0.29 GW | 2025-07-31 | claimed | press release |
| Energized | 0 GW | 2025-07-31 | reported | press release |
| Under construction | 0.02 GW | 2025-07-31 | reported | press release |
Key facts
Lifecycle
Announced
Energized
Developer
Location
Grid
Land
Announced-to-energized gap
Reported facts
Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.
- Location
- Kvandal outside Narvik, Norway
- First-phase target
- 230 MW + 100,000 Nvidia GPUs by end of 2026
- Expansion ambition
- Additional 290 MW (total ~520 MW)
- Financially committed
- Only the initial 20 MW tranche ($1B, split equally between partners)
- Cooling
- Closed-loop direct-to-chip; excess heat available for regional district heating
- Power source
- Regional surplus hydropower
- First international Stargate node in Europe
- Yes
On the data center map
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Approximate pin. We hold a city-level coordinate for this campus, not a verified site coordinate, so the marker shows the city rather than the parcel. The satellite strip and building outlines stay off until the site coordinate is sourced.
- Cooling
- Closed-loop, direct-to-chip liquid cooling
- GPUs
- 100K 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs targeted by end of 2026
Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.
In clusterNordland(3)
The deal
- financier
- Aker ASA · 50% co-owner; industrial partner
- offtaker
- OpenAI · Initial offtaker with option to scale under OpenAI for Countries
- chip supplier
- NVIDIA · GPU supplier (100,000 GPUs targeted)
- developer
- Nscale · Designs and builds the facility; 50% co-owner via wholly owned subsidiary
- developer
- Stargate Infrastructure
Power
- Power source
- grid
- Grid operator
- other
- Interconnection
- Water
- Closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling; excess heat available for regional low-carbon enterprises / district heating
Regional surplus hydropower supply, grid interconnect, Announced. Facility to run entirely on renewable hydropower; specific dedicated project capacity not disclosed
Silicon on site
Every AI chip publicly attributed to Stargate Norway (Kvandal / Narvik) on the DEPLOY registry. Quantity hints are unstructured because underlying disclosures vary by an order of magnitude. Source links per row.
- as of 2025-07-01
100,000 NVIDIA GPUs targeted by end of 2026 (initial phase; specific SKU may be H100/H200/Blackwell mix)
inferredOpenAI announcement cited 100k Nvidia GPUs without SKU. Attributed conservatively to H100 as the volume-shipping Hopper baseline; upgrade as G42/Aker discloses.
Why here
Stargate Norway sits on greenfield in Nordland, Narvik. It connects to the other grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Financial structure
- Committed to initial 20MW phase (both partners)
- $1B. Initial 20MW phase only press release
- Equity in initial phase (100% basis, split equally)
- $250M. Upwards of USD 250M; each partner contributes equally press release
Regulatory paper trail
The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.
Investment, workforce and specs
- Cooling
- Closed-loop, direct-to-chip liquid cooling source
Timeline
- Aug 2026party linkeddeveloper: linked externalName "Nscale" to company nscale
- Sep 2026Current: Under construction
Sources
- Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway
- Introducing Stargate Norway
- OpenAI partners with Nscale and Aker for Stargate Norway data center with 100k GPUs
30c92b75-7001-4e3c-b579-91a4de785cd9 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.
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Cite this page
DEPLOY. (2026). Stargate Norway (Kvandal / Narvik): AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/stargate-norway-narvik
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