Østfold Energi Eyes Data Centers South of Oslo
March 17, 2026
Oslo
DC Sarpsborg AS, a joint venture between Østfold Energi (66%) and Sarpsborg Municipality (34%), is developing a speculative hyperscale data center campus of up to 300 MW on a 1,781-acre greenfield site at Hasle, approximately 5 km northeast of Sarpsborg city centre and 90 km south of Oslo.
The site has a direct connection to the Norwegian national transmission grid at the adjacent Hasle 420 kV substation, with water cooling planned via a dedicated pump station drawing from the Glomma river. DC Sarpsborg holds 15-year option agreements with 13 private landowners covering the core parcels, and the formal zoning process with mandatory environmental impact assessment was initiated in December 2025, with final zoning adoption by the Sarpsborg city council expected no earlier than October 2027.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 13.16 miles | StoreSpeed Fredrikstad DC1 | |
| 17.16 miles | Storespeed: Halden DC01 |
Storespeed operates DC01, a carrier-neutral colocation facility in Halden, Norway — 60 km from Oslo, with 5 ms latency to Oslo and approximately 25 ms to FLAP-D.
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| 17.83 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Google is currently exploring the development of a new data center at Gylderåsen in the Våler municipality of Østfold, Norway.
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DC Sarpsborg AS is a Norwegian limited company owned 66% by Østfold Energi and 34% by Sarpsborg Municipality, established in 2019 to develop the Hasle
area in Sarpsborg into a hyperscale data center site. The company holds long-term
option agreements with private landowners covering 1,740 acres and is currently
managing the reguleringsplan (zoning plan) process, with Sweco Norge AS as planning
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