04BBuildout · frontier site· cluster ledger reviewed 2026-10-14
Nscale Narvik (announced as Stargate Norway) AI datacenter
Nscale (Microsoft offtake) · Narvik, Nordland, Norway. The ledger records it as under construction, with 230 MW planned. Every figure below traces to a dated public source.
Ledger figures
- Operator
- Nscale (Microsoft offtake)
- Location
- Narvik, Nordland, Norway
- Status
- Building
- Current power
- No public figure
- Planned power
- 230 MW
- Accelerators
- ≈52K NVIDIA GB300 (Microsoft, multi-year) + 30K+ Rubin from 2027
- Announced
- 2025-07-31
- First power
- No public date
Hydropower-fed campus, now run solely by Nscale (the Aker joint venture was folded in, Mar 2026) with Microsoft as offtaker; OpenAI reportedly left lease talks (Apr 2026). Ambition to add a further 290 MW beyond the initial 230 MW.
Power figures are IT load where trackers publish it and campus power where only the operator’s headline exists; each source below names its basis. A figure marked est rests on at least one source other than the operator’s own announcement.
Sources behind each figure
- Planned power 230 MW initial capacity (ambition for +290 MW) — Nscale,
- Accelerators Aker-Nscale joint venture to deliver ~52,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs to Microsoft from Narvik (multi-year agreement) — Nscale,
- Accelerators More than 30,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs added at the 230 MW Narvik campus for Microsoft, in 2027 — Nscale,
- Status · est Under construction; no buildings operational at the Jul 2026 imagery; 92 MW projected by end-2026 (tracker estimate) — Epoch AI data-center directory,
- Announced Nscale/Aker/OpenAI announce Stargate Norway Jul 31, 2025 — Nscale,
Background reading: Nscale on AI Wiki. AI Wiki is run by the same team as AI Compute Tracker.