OpenAI launches its first data center in Europe
OpenAI has announced the launch of an artificial intelligence data center under the Stargate brand in Norway, marking the company's first foray into the European market with such a project.
OpenAI has announced the launch of an artificial intelligence data center under the Stargate brand in Norway, marking the company's first foray into the European market with such a project.
About Stargate
Stargate was originally launched this year in the US as an infrastructure project between OpenAI, Oracle, Japan’s SoftBank and the UAE’s MGX. The project plans to invest $500 billion over the next 4 years in building artificial intelligence infrastructure.
OpenAI is looking to expand this initiative globally. In June, the company and its partners announced plans to build a Stargate campus in the UAE.
The design and construction of the facility will be carried out by the British company Nscale together with the Norwegian company Aker, which specializes in energy infrastructure.
Nscale and Aker have each committed about $1 billion to the initial phase of the 20 MW project. The facility will be located in Kvandal, northern Norway. The companies said the region is characterized by “abundant hydro resources, low local electricity consumption and limited network capacity.”
OpenAI will be the so-called "buyer" in the project, meaning it will actually purchase capacity from the data center.
"One of the goals of this project is to partner with OpenAI and leverage European independent computing power to launch new services and features for Europe," Josh Payne, CEO of Nscale, said in an interview with CNBC.
The facility is planned to provide 100,000 NVIDIA GPUs by the end of 2026, "with further significant expansion in the future," according to an OpenAI press release.
The data center will operate exclusively on renewable energy sources, with 230 megawatts of capacity, which will make it one of the largest in Europe.
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