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Microsoft: Sandnes

Year Planned: 2028

Lot Size: 16 acres

Microsoft plans to develop a data center at Kvål in Sandnes, Norway, on land already zoned for industrial and data center use. The company acquired the site in June 2026 after Sandnes municipality approved the underlying development plan in October 2024. The facility will expand Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure in Norway as a supplement to the company’s existing Norway East region.

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Distance	Site	About
2.78 miles	Green Mountain: Kalberg	Green Mountain intends to develop a substantial data center campus in Kalberg, Norway, situated about 20 kilometers from Stavanger.
5.73 miles	ASP DC: Stavanger K11
12.70 miles	Green Horizon: Varhaug, Stavanger	Norwegian developer Green Horizon has secured planning approval for Norway 1, its debut €300 million data center facility located along Næringsvegen in Varhaug, near Stavanger.
17.87 miles	Green Mountain SVG1-Rennesøy	Previously known as DC1-Stavanger data centre is located in Rennesøy in Norway. The site is a former NATO ammunition storage facility

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Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.

Azure Regions

An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.

Geographies

An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.

Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.

Availability Zones

Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.

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