By Brody Ford, Kurt Wagner and Mark Bergen
Publication Date: 2026-04-14 18:51:00
(Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to rent data center capacity at a site in Norway that was initially intended for OpenAI and marketed as part of the artificial intelligence company’s Stargate initiative.
Microsoft will rent 30,000 additional Nvidia Corp. Vera Rubin chips from neocloud provider Nscale at a campus inside the arctic circle in Narvik, Norway, Nscale said in a statement. This builds on a prior $6.2 billion commitment Microsoft made at the same site.
OpenAI had initially been in talks for capacity to run its artificial intelligence workloads at the campus, but didn’t conclude an agreement with Nscale, according to people familiar with the discussions. The company had marketed it as “Stargate Norway” in a statement last year, a reference to its planned $500 billion joint venture investment in US infrastructure to power the next era of AI.
Last week, OpenAI said it was pausing its analogous Stargate effort in the UK, another Nscale-developed…
