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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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | Green Mountain: Kalberg |
Green Mountain intends to develop a substantial data center campus in Kalberg, Norway, situated about 20 kilometers from Stavanger.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | ASP DC: Stavanger K11 | |
| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | 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.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | 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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Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
Campus exterior and data hall photography for this operator.
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.
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.
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 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.
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...
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October 29, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft will buy the entire output of two new solar projects in Japan developed by Blueleaf Energy under long-term power purchase agreements. Macquarie Asset Management, which owns Blueleaf, said in a press release on Oct. 28 that its Energy Markets and Customer Solutions team coordinated both...
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October 29, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is extending the useful life of its data centers and office buildings to 25 years from 15, effective this fiscal year. The company reported fiscal first-quarter Microsoft Cloud revenue up 30% on Oct. 28, with Azure revenue up 48%, according to Microsoft's earnings release....
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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...
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October 22, 2026 Microsoft Azure
Microsoft filed for state review on October 20 of a three-building data center campus in Rome, Georgia, with 422MW of planned capacity. The Development of Regional Impact application covers 349 acres at 0 Huffaker Road and 1,659,000 square feet of floor space. Microsoft owns the land, bought in...
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