OpenAI unveils Stargate Norway — its first data center in Europe

Norway has cheap and abundant hydropower, tempting Stargate to build there.
For its first European data center, OpenAI chose Norway for its climate and cheap hydropower. (Picture: Adobe)
The facility in Narvik, Northern Norway was selected for its cool climate and abundant clean energy, and will host 100,000 Nvidia chips with a total power consumption of 230 MW.

It will run mostly ChatGPT loads, but «surplus capacity» will be made available to local and North European developers, and government programs, which is in high demand.

ChatGPT use in Norway has quadrupled in the past year, OpenAI says in its statement on the project, and there are thousands of developers on the platform.

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