VivoPower: Mo i Rana
Cowa and Lian Group operate a cryptocurrency mining site at a former ironworks plant in Mo i Rana, northern Norway. Bitfury built the facility in 2018 and mined there until 2022.
VivoPower International PLC (Nasdaq: VVPR) is a sustainable energy and digital infrastructure company operating across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Australia.
The Company develops and operates renewable-powered infrastructure enabling Power-to-X applications, with a strategic focus on sovereign digital and AI infrastructure, electric mobility, and energy-intensive compute.
Cowa and Lian Group operate a cryptocurrency mining site at a former ironworks plant in Mo i Rana, northern Norway. Bitfury built the facility in 2018 and mined there until 2022.
VivoPower International signed an agreement to acquire, develop, and operate a data center facility in the United Arab Emirates in January 2026 from an undisclosed seller.
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...
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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...
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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...
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March 14, 2026 Norway
Investment firm 3i Infrastructure has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Norway’s Lefdal Mine Datacenter (LMD). Announced this week, 3i plans to invest €300 million ($347.3 million) in the deal, which is expected to close in summer 2026.The data center company is being acquired from a fund...
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March 07, 2026 Norway
Plans for a proposed ammonia plant in Norway have been scrapped, with the developer now exploring the site for potential data center use. The shift comes after delays caused the project to lose its grid capacity allocation with the local grid operator Iverson eFuels has decided to terminate plans...
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March 02, 2026 United Arab Emirates (UAE)
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) Availability Zone in the UAE is experiencing an outage after being “impacted by objects that struck the data center.” While AWS has not disclosed further details, the incident comes amid ongoing missile and drone attacks on the UAE attributed to Iran.The objects...
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