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# OpenAI, Nscale and Aker launch Stargate Norway data centre venture
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-07-31-openai-nscale-aker-stargate-norway/
- Published: 2025-07-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-19T16:02:14.000Z
- Description: Nscale (UK) and Aker (Norway) formed a 50-50 joint venture, Stargate Norway, to build a Narvik data centre with OpenAI as anchor customer, targeting 100,000 Nvidia GPUs on 230 MW of hydropower by end-2026, OpenAI's first European site.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #reported, #editor-read

Reported Editor-read [Nscale press release, 31 July 2025](https://www.nscale.com/press-releases/stargate-norway-nscale-aker-openai?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that OpenAI itself owns or controls the Norwegian site, which Nscale and Aker will own and operate.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-19\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)