AI cloud firm Nscale is to expand its data center site in Glomfjord, Norway.
The company has partnered with prefab data center provider InfraPartners to add 30MW of capacity next to Nscale’s existing 30MW facility in the Glomfjord Industrial Park.
The new liquid-cooled facility, set to go live in Q2 2025, will host ‘the latest generation’ of GPUs according to Nscale.
InfraPartners will develop the facility using prefabricated modules manufactured off-site.
“InfraPartners has developed the first fully modular data center for AI workloads. We are changing the way data centers are built. Our approach secures supply chains, drives standardization, accelerates site deployment, and offers design flexibility to accommodate future GPU technology roadmaps," said Harqs Singh, InfraPartners CTO. "We are thrilled to partner with Nscale to deploy a sustainable data center in Glomfjord. By partnering with us, Nscale will benefit from a globally standardized design, flexibility to deploy different types of GPUs, and faster time to revenue.”
"Glomfjord offers an ideal location for an AI data center,” added Alex Sharp, Nscale COO. “With an existing 30MW site and access to an abundance of hydroelectric power, this expansion to 60MW allows us to provide sustainable AI compute with European data sovereignty at a more affordable cost compared with competitors. This facility represents a landmark step in creating scalable, sustainable AI infrastructure. As the first and largest European hyperscaler, Nscale is ready to deliver AI compute at scale.”
Nscale officially launched in May 2024 after being spun out from cryptomining firm Arkon Energy. The company offers a GPU cloud based on AMD hardware, specifically AMD's Instinct M1300X accelerators as well as AMD MI250 GPUs and Nvidia’s GB200, H100, and H200 GPUs.
The company operates the Glomfjord site that was previously owned by Arkon, and claims to have a pipeline totaling more than 1.3GW, with more than 500MW of greenfield data centers planned across the US.
It is planning a new 50MW site in the UK due live later this year.
Nscale last year acquired Kontena, a high-density modular data center and AI data center solutions provider that previously deployed two of its mining containers at the Glomfjord site.
The company previously raised $155 million in a Series A funding round led by Sandton Capital Partners with participation from Kestrel, Bluesky Asset Management, and Florence Capital.
Singapore's Singtel has partnered with Nscale; the former will use the latter's hardware in Europe, while Nscale will gain access to the telco's GPUs in Asia.
InfraPartners has previously partnered with advisory firm Caddis Cloud Solutions with the aim of bringing more data center capacity online in the US.
