Jun 16, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Data center and AI cloud firm Crusoe has announced a strategic partnership with Polar to establish its first data center in mainland Europe. Crusoe has signed a contract for a 12MW facility located in Norway, which will host Crusoe Cloud, the company’s GPU cloud services.
“Partnering with Polar brings Crusoe Cloud's cutting-edge AI infrastructure directly to abundant, clean hydroelectric power. This allows our European customers to run their AI workloads with unparalleled performance without sacrificing their commitments to environmental responsibility,” said Chris Dolan, chief data center officer, Crusoe.
“Polar is proud to partner with Crusoe, a company that deeply shares our values of collaboration and innovation,” said Andy Hayes, CEO of Polar. “Crusoe’s commitment to maximizing compute efficiency while minimizing environmental impact perfectly aligns with our mission to provide sustainable and scalable data center solutions. We are excited to support Crusoe’s rapid growth across the European region.”
On its website, Polar says it has two AI-ready data centers available for customer deployment. DRA01, located on a 60,000 sqm (645,835 sq ft) plot in southeast Norway. This is likely the site Crusoe is deploying its cloud.
