April 13, 2026 Green Mountain AS
A new Nordic data center firm has been launched by two former CEOs of Norwegian operator Green Mountain. The company, Heim Datacenter, plans to develop data centers in Finland and Sweden.The company was set up by Tor Kristian Gyland, who was CEO of Green Mountain from 2017 until 2023, and Svein...
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February 29, 2024 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain is to host Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure in two of its Norweigan data centers. Green Mountain has three data centers in Norway and the specific facilities for this project are yet to be revealed....
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December 08, 2023 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain this week announced that it has begun construction work for a new 14MW facility at the company’s LON1-East campus in Romford, London. This expansion is set in two phases, each phase totaling 7MW and across three data halls, inside the existing building. It will also offer more than...
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December 01, 2023 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain has completed the data center building at the OSL2-Hamar campus in Norway, which it claims is Europe’s largest data center run on renewable energy and has officially handed it over to TikTok. The social media company is now in charge of delivering, installing, and testing servers...
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November 20, 2023 Green Mountain AS
Norway’s Green Mountain announced this week that it was granted approval to develop a new building at its data center campus outside Oslo, Norway. This planned facility will be a three-story, 9,600 square-meter building at its Enebakk campus, and construction is expected to start soon and be...
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October 12, 2023 Green Mountain AS
Norway's Green Mountain has announced plans to build a massive data center campus in Norway following a ‘large international client’ request to establish itself near the new Fagrafjell transformer station. This new facility will be built on a site at Kalberg, about 20klometers from Stavanger in...
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April 26, 2023 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain is adding 10 MW to its data center campus outside Oslo, Norway, it has been announced. The OSL1-Enebakk site (previously DC3-Oslo) will have a new two-story, 5,800 sqm (62,430 sq ft) building added and the company has already begun construction on the expansion project. Green...
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April 24, 2023 Green Mountain AS
In the last year or so, there's been a lot of talk about data centers sharing their heat and promoting the circular economy. The practice is widespread in Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania and Estonia and Germany was even exploring making it compulsory for operators to reuse waste heat with a new...
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April 04, 2023 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain and KMW have formed a 50:50 joint venture to develop a new campus outside of Frankfurt, Germany. The campus has received approval from local authorities, and it is expected that construction will begin on the 25,000 sqm (269,100 sq ft) site, FRA1-Main, in the third quarter of 2023....
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March 09, 2023 Green Mountain AS
TikTok, a social media site controlled by the Chinese government, will utilize a data center in Norway with a capacity of up to 150MW. Green Mountain will construct and manage the OSL2-Hamar plant, consisting of five 30MW-capacity buildings. According to the company, this will make it Norway's...
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November 10, 2022 Green Mountain AS
Volkswagen AG, the first automaker to commit to the Paris climate agreement, has announced its new climate-neutral plans, which detail that its data center activities will be carbon-neutral by 2027. This is three years earlier than expected in the European Green Deal, which committed European...
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September 16, 2022 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain has announced that it is expanding its RJU1-Rjukan facility in Norway by constructing a new two-story 20MW building. With an investment of €100 million ($99.9m), the first phase will reportedly be operational and ready for service in March of next year. The company has outlined...
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June 29, 2022 Green Mountain AS
Azrieli Group, the parent of Green Mountain has acquired Infinity SDC Ltd. The move sees the company take over SDC’s data center in Romford, East London. Green Mountain will be tasked with operating the data center. This will be Green Mountain’s first facility outside of Norway. Green Mountain...
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June 23, 2022 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain has come forward with its first sustainability report, which focused on seven ESG areas: energy, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, water, biodiversity, social responsibility, and governance. Some of the highlights noted in the report included that all of its data centers now operate...
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August 06, 2021 Green Mountain AS
According to the principles of Moore’s law, technology will double in its capacity every two years. Although on the technological advancement front this is great news, with increased computer power comes challenges. The main challenge being increased excess heat and the need to cool it. A number...
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July 21, 2021 Green Mountain AS
Azrieli Group, an Israeli real estate firm, has acquired 100% of Green Mountain, a Norwegian data center Company. The acquisition cost Azrieli NIS 2.8 billion ($849.2m). Azrieli noted that the acquisition would be self-financed, and it will be through debt raising and through an unsecured loan...
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June 28, 2021 Green Mountain AS
Green Mountain, the Norwegian colocation company, has entered into an agreement with Hima Seafood to reuse waste warm water from the company’s local data center to grow trout at the farm in Rjukan, Norway. The Recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility, located 800 meters from the...
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April 23, 2021 Green Mountain Gismarvik
Green Mountain has announced that it has secured 50,000 sqm (538,000 sq ft) of land in Norway in an option agreement with Haugaland Business Park. Located in Gismarvik in Tysvær municipality, the land will enable Green Mountain to begin constructing a fourth data center site as early as 2022. The...
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