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A 230 -MW -KI campus that is driven by Norwegian Hydro was announced -but the competition for electricity and rising prices already cause political unrest.
July 31, 2025 global affairs
Introduction of Stargate Norway
We start Stargate Norway – Openai's first AI calculation initiative in Europe as part of our Openai for countries. Stargate is the overarching infrastructure platform from Openai and an important part of our long -term vision, the advantages of AI to offer for everyone.
AI is a fundamental technology that increases productivity, promoting economic growth and operating new industries. A large -scale calculation in Europe will help this transformation benefit people and communities, including developers, researchers, scientists and startups throughout Norway and Europe.
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Stargate Norway should deliver 230 MW capacity, whereby ambitions can be expanded by a further 290 MW. The facility will strive to the delivery of 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026 to expand considerably in the coming years. Openai welcomes the opportunity to be a first off -taker who is scaled in the program for the state as part of the Openai for countries.
This is one of the most ambitious AI infrastructure investments in Europe. Narviks plenty of hydropower, inexpensive energy, cool climate and sophisticated industrial nose make it an ideal place to offer a large-scale, sustainable AI capacity.
The facility is operated exclusively on renewable electricity It is expected that liquid cooling with closed loop contains direct cooling of the liquid to ensure maximum cooling efficiency. In addition, excess heat from the GPU systems are made available to support low-carbon companies in the region.
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Read more: https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-norway/
In principle, sounds like a great idea – if you have plenty of hydro energy and tick all green boxes, why not use?
The problem is that there is not enough Norwegian hydropower.
From February this year;
The threat of the British blackout increases to the collapse of the Norwegian government
Hannah Boland
Sat, February 1, 2025 at 12:07 p.m. GMT+10
Great Britain risks that it escalates more susceptible to power outages as political ranks in Norway.
The Norwegian government collapsed this week after a series of EU Green Energy Act. A junior coalition partner in the government announced in protest against plans for the implementation of the guidelines in the middle of a broader increase in Energy Nationalism in the country.
Experts said that the collapse had raised questions about the trust of Britain in Norwegian energy imports in order to comply with the light. Last weekend Norway 4PC made up British power and came over cables that run under the North Sea.
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Great Britain is expected to rely on electricity imports as part of Ed Milibands Net Null -Push, since the work wants to decorate the network by switching renewable energies to temporarily converting renewable energies, whereby the wind power forms a decisive pillar of its plans.
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Electricity exports have become a flashpoint in Norway, where the public has been faced with high energy prices in recent years. Critics have claimed that the Interconnector cables of the Unterssee are the prices higher.
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Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/blackout-britain-threat-rises-collapse-140740392.html
If the Norwegians assume so much that they send a few gigawatts of electricity to Great Britain, how will they have the feeling of sipping all their hydropower in relation to foreigners in possession of AI systems?
If the Norwegian hydropower is too short, as was the case in 2022 when a serious drought supply was threatened, who will be the first to be the power failure? Is Norwegian industry sacrificed to keep the Openai campus going?
Hydropower is a great starter energy system. As Willis once pointed out, Hydro is really the cheapest form of power and can help to start industrial development in poor countries. As soon as all simple hydro sites have been exploited, it is difficult to expand the hydrocapacity. And if the competition for electricity heats up, as in Norway, someone will go away disappointed.
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