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Google: Skien, Norway

Year Planned: 2026

Google has broken ground on its first data center campus in Norway. The tech giant is investing $646.4 million in the construction of a new data center in Skien, Norway. The company acquired some 200 hectares of land in the Gromstul area of Skien, around 85 miles southwest of Oslo, around 2019. This is the company's first data center in Norway.

The project is set to go live in 2026.

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Distance	Site	About
5.29 miles	Aker Nscale: Skien	Aker Nscale, a joint venture between Aker and Nscale, has partnered with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a data center in Skien, Norway.
11.59 miles	Polar DC: Heroya	Polar DC is converting an existing building at Herøya Industrial Park into a 40MW AI-ready data center.
13.88 miles	BW Group: Telemark, Norway	BW Group's digital infrastructure division, BW Velora, has signed an agreement to develop a large-scale data center at the 1,800-acre Frier Vest industrial park in Norway.

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Rendering of Google's Skien, Norway Data Center

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In 2017, Google announced a commitment to power the company and its data centers entirely on renewable energy. In 2018, Google reached the 100% of their goal.

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