Openai supports the Norway Artificial Intelligence Data Center with 100000 Nvidia GPUS

Openai said on Thursday that it launches the Amnesty International Data Center bearing the Stargate brand in Norway, which represents its first invasion in Europe with such a project.

The British company NSCale will design and create the site as part of a joint venture between 50-50 with the Norwegian Energy Infrastructure Company.

Openai will be the so -called “outside the plan” in the project, which means that it will effectively buy the capacity from the data center.

“Part of the purpose of this project is partnership with Openai and benefit from European sovereignty to issue additional services and features to the European continent,” Josh Pine, CEO of NSCAE, told CNBC in an interview on Thursday.

The site aims to provide 100,000 NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPU) by the end of 2026, “with the intention of expanding significantly in the coming years,” Openai said in a press statement. The companies said that the data center will fully work on renewable energy and has 230 megawatts of capacity, making it one of the largest in Europe.

NVIDIA graphics units have become the actual selection of databases due to their ability to deal with large AI’s work burdens.

For the Norway project, both NSCALE and Aker committed about $ 1 billion for the initial stage 20 megawatts of the project. The site is located in Kvandal, outside Narvik in northern Norway. The companies said that the region is characterized by “abundant electrical energy, low demand for local electricity, and the limited capacity of transmission.”

Pain declined to comment on how NSCAE funded this project or the project’s financial benefits for the company. The CEO said there are no plans for the additional Stargate data centers, but NSCAE has a “strong European expansion plan”.

Stargate was initially launched this year in the United States As a project for infrastructure between Openai, OracleJapan SoftbankAnd UAE’s MGX. The project aims to invest 500 billion dollars over the next four years, and to build an Amnesty International’s infrastructure.

Openai looked at this initiative in the world. In June, the company and its partners announced plans to build a Stargit’s campus in the United Arab Emirates.

Meanwhile, Europe was pushing the concept of “sovereign artificial intelligence”, which requires data centers and work burdens of artificial intelligence to be present and processed on European soil.

Payne said that Europe has two “problems” – the first is that it does not have enough computing capacity, and the second is “very fragmented.”

“What the continent needs is the large infrastructure projects of Amnesty International, which publishes (energy) account. The ecological system can consume from the project to build artificial intelligence products, to generate productivity growth and economic benefits.”

Companies like Nvidia and Openai were promoting them as well The ability to connect sovereign artificial intelligence because it looks forward to expanding their business.

On a trip to Europe this year, the CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang urged the continent to build more Amnesty International’s infrastructure. AI AI Mistral Announces plans to use NVIDIA graphics units At a new planned data center for France.