Ardent: Kristiansand

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Ardent: Kristiansand

PUE: 1.2

This site is leased from Bulk Infrastructure AS in the Bulk Kristiansand N01 Campus building

Operational Power

In Kristiansand, Ardent operates a high density, resilient site powered by renewable energy. This specific location is situated at the N01 Campus, which is managed by Bulk Infrastructure.

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Northern Data AG Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Ardent: Kristiansand

Distance	Site	About
0.03 miles	Bulk Kristiansand N01 Campus	The campus is located at the southmost part of Norway in close proximity and with dark fiber routes to continental Europe, the UK and the US.
0.05 miles	BULK: N01 DCM102	Bulk Data Centers DCM102 facility is located at the N01 Data Center Campus in Kristiansand, southern Norway.

Operating Company

Northern Data develops and operates global infrastructure solutions in the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC). With its customer-specific solutions, the company provides the infrastructure for various HPC applications in areas such as bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data analytics, IoT or rendering. The internationally active company is today a leading provider of HPC solutions worldwide. Northern Data offers its HPC solutions both in large, stationary data centers and in mobile high-tech data centers that can be set up at any location worldwide. The company combines self-developed software and hardware with intelligent concepts for a sustainable energy supply. The Northern Data group currently employs about 150 members of staff.

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Norway Grid Operator Statnett Halts New Data Center Capacity Reservations

November 09, 2026 Norway

Statnett, the state-owned grid operator in Norway, has temporarily stopped reserving new transmission capacity for data centers. The halt, announced on 9 November, is expected to be lifted no later than 1 August 2027. It suspends new reservation requests and the processing of new applications for...

Crusoe Takes 40MW Second Phase At Polar's Hydro-Powered Norway Campus

October 22, 2026 Crusoe

Crusoe will take a second, larger building at Polar Data Centers' Tørdal campus in Norway. Polar announced the expansion on Oct. 21 (announcement). The new building, DRA02, will add 40MW of liquid-cooled critical IT capacity on hydroelectric power and is due online in late 2027. Crusoe plans...

Exascale Labs Partners With EnergyBank On Floating Wind Data Center Pilot In Norway

August 31, 2026 Norway

AI data center developer Exascale Labs has partnered with energy storage firm EnergyBank to explore AI data centers powered by floating offshore wind and long-duration battery storage. Under a non-binding MoU, the companies will develop an initial pilot with Zephyros-One, a 2.3MW floating wind...

Magnora to Launch 1MW Data Center in Oslo, Norway

August 11, 2026 Norway

European data center firm Magnora plans to develop a new facility in Oslo, Norway. Euronext Oslo-listed Magnora Data Center has formed a 50:50 joint venture with Blix Group AS and acquired a commercial property near Oslo for conversion into an AI data center. The site, formerly used by the...

T1 Energy Gets 50MW Grid Connection for Norway Data Center Site

March 20, 2026 Norway

Battery and solar panel maker T1 Energy has obtained 50MW of capacity for a Norwegian site originally intended for battery cell production, now planned as a data center. The company announced this week that Norway’s national grid operator, Statnett, has allocated 50MW of power to T1 Energy’s...