Microsoft has agreed a $6.2 billion deal to build sustainable infrastructure in Norway. This agreement aims to allow the company to better serve Europe with scalable AI and cloud services.
According to a blog by Microsoft, it is partnering with data centre company Nscale Global Holdings and Norwegian industrial investment company Aker ASA to build the AI infrastructure in Narvik, which is a town above the Arctic Circle.
It noted Narvik has abundant hydropower, low electricity demand, cool climate, and existing industrial infrastructure, “which together enable affordable and sustainable large-scale data centre operations”.
The companies signed a five-year agreement to roll out advanced AI infrastructure powered entirely by renewable energy, with service delivery starting in 2026.
Josh Payne, founder and CEO of Nscale stated the site will deliver one of the largest GPU deployments in the world and “confirms Narvik’s role as a strategic hub for AI in Europe”.
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced a partnership with Nscale and Nvidia to build a supercomputer in London using more than 23,000 GPUs.
Last week, Microsoft struck a deal with Nebius Group worth around $20 billion to provide dedicated GPU infrastructure capacity to the tech giant from a new data centre in Vineland, New Jersey.
Source: Mobile World Live
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