Narvik

Capacity: announced vs energized

Key facts

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Kvandal 230 MW / 100k GPU plan (primary Nscale)

Nscale's Jul 31 2025 Stargate Norway announcement with Aker and OpenAI places the facility in Kvandal just outside Narvik, Northern Norway, plans 230 MW of capacity with ambitions to expand by an additional 290 MW, and targets delivery of 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026 on entirely renewable power. Frame MW and GPU counts as developer-stated plans, not energized capacity (Nscale, Jul 31 2025)

Nscale-Aker JV / initial 20 MW funding (primary Nscale)

The same Nscale release says the site will be owned by a 50/50 joint venture between Nscale and Aker (subject to closing conditions), with both parties committing approximately USD 1 billion to the initial 20 MW phase including upwards of USD 250 million in equity on a 100% basis. It also describes closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling and making excess heat available to regional low-carbon enterprises. Treat JV, funding, and cooling claims as announcement terms (Nscale, Jul 31 2025)

Microsoft offtake / OpenAI exit (reported DCD)

Data Center Dynamics reported (Apr 15 2026) that Microsoft and Nscale expanded their partnership with a further 30,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs for the 230 MW Kvandal campus outside Narvik, with that additional compute to be delivered in 2027, after OpenAI dropped out of the Stargate Norway offtake following a failure to conclude an agreement (citing Bloomberg). DCD also notes Microsoft already had a related agreement for $6.2 billion of capacity signed in Sep 2025. Frame as press-reported offtake shift, not a completed energization (DCD, Apr 15 2026)

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The deal

developer

Nscale

Power

Power source

grid

Interconnection

Why here

Narvik is in Nordland, Narvik. It draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

Sources

• Narvik — nscale facility ↗
• Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway ↗
• Microsoft contracts 30,000 GPUs from Nscale at Norway data center as OpenAI drops out of latest Stargate ↗

3c4b7752-47dc-4cc1-83bd-639b112bbdbc · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

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