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Nscale announced site ↓ Stargate Norway, Kvandal (Narvik), Norway Nscale, Aker and OpenAI announced on 31 July 2025 Stargate Norway, an AI infrastructure project at Kvandal outside Narvik, to be designed and built by Nscale and owned by a planned 50/50 Nscale–Aker joint venture. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-07-31 · announcement Stage announced Amount approximate · $1,000,000,000 Scope and limits An announced project; the joint venture was still to be formed and subject to closing conditions. OpenAI is described as a prospective "initial offtaker", not a contracted customer. The release states that both parties committed about USD 1 billion to the initial 20MW phase; that amount is joint and not attributed to either party alone.
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Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway ↗ Nscale · 2025-07-31
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Source excerpt “The facility will be located in Kvandal, just outside Narvik” Location in source paragraph 3
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Source details and check notes Authors Nscale Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 28c39e2b4b5c53558183257759186845c04ebbacd3f3a56d2124fbf291e00497). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "Oslo, Norway – 31 July 2025". OpenAI's post (openai.com) refuses direct retrieval. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 28c39e2b4b5c53558183257759186845c04ebbacd3f3a56d2124fbf291e00497, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Nscale, “Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway”, 2025-07-31. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (10 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 16) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway ↗ Nscale · 2025-07-31
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Source excerpt “It will be owned by a 50/50 joint venture between Nscale and Aker” Location in source paragraph 6
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Source details and check notes Authors Nscale Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 28c39e2b4b5c53558183257759186845c04ebbacd3f3a56d2124fbf291e00497). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "Oslo, Norway – 31 July 2025". OpenAI's post (openai.com) refuses direct retrieval. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 28c39e2b4b5c53558183257759186845c04ebbacd3f3a56d2124fbf291e00497, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Nscale, “Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway”, 2025-07-31. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (13 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 16) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway ↗ Nscale · 2025-07-31
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Source excerpt “OpenAI welcomes the opportunity to be an initial offtaker with the option to scale over time” Location in source paragraph 7
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Source details and check notes Authors Nscale Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 28c39e2b4b5c53558183257759186845c04ebbacd3f3a56d2124fbf291e00497). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "Oslo, Norway – 31 July 2025". OpenAI's post (openai.com) refuses direct retrieval. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 28c39e2b4b5c53558183257759186845c04ebbacd3f3a56d2124fbf291e00497, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Nscale, “Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway”, 2025-07-31. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (16 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 16) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway ↗ Nscale · 2025-07-31
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Paraphrase the site will be designed and built by Nscale; the joint venture is to be formed subject to agreed-upon closing conditions; both parties have committed approximately USD 1 billion to the initial phase.
Location in source paragraph 6
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30
Source details and check notes Authors Nscale Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 28c39e2b4b5c53558183257759186845c04ebbacd3f3a56d2124fbf291e00497). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "Oslo, Norway – 31 July 2025". OpenAI's post (openai.com) refuses direct retrieval. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 28c39e2b4b5c53558183257759186845c04ebbacd3f3a56d2124fbf291e00497, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Nscale, “Nscale, Aker and OpenAI to establish Stargate Norway: a 100,000 NVIDIA GPU AI Gigafactory powered by renewable energy in Northern Norway”, 2025-07-31. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 16) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A party announced a data-centre site, campus or other infrastructure, dated by the announcement. An announcement is not construction, operation, ownership or a contract.
Date. Date of the announcement, as the source gives it.
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