Stargate Norway (Nscale–Aker joint venture and OpenAI offtaker; Kvandal, Narvik, Norway) was promised operations by 31 December 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 230 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: transferred.
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The ledger’s reading is the end of August 2026: the promises and the states as they stood then. Each row’s evidence carries its own date, printed on it.
- Evidence read
- Today
- Promised
The announcement
- Announced or estimated capacity (IT load)
- 230 MW
- Where the announcement was read
- openai.com
- When it was read
The promise
- Promised by
- What was promised
- operations
- Where the promise was read
- openai.com
At the close of the record
- Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026
- 0 MW
- Where the evidence was read
- cnbc.com
- When it was read
- The book’s verdict
- Transferred
The book’s note
100,000 NVIDIA GPUs targeted by the end of 2026. On 15 Apr 2026 Microsoft took the compute earmarked for OpenAI; the August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates (anchor addendum) records it retreated and transferred, with no clock across two projects. Chapter 12’s transferred project is a different one, Tembo/Jade in Wyoming.
Also
- Who is involved
- owner Nscale–Aker joint venture
- offtaker OpenAI
- offtaker Microsoft
Filings that bear on it
- Nscale Ltd, Form S-1 registration statement, filed 18 September 2026 Nscale’s registration statement says OpenAI withdrew from Stargate Norway and Stargate UK in April 2026, Microsoft taking the extra Norway capacity, and records Anthropic agreements worth up to about $44.6 billion, subject to delivery and availability terms.
Campuses near it in the ledger
- Stargate UK shares 2 parties
- PORTS-Pike shares a party
- Fairwater Wisconsin shares a party
- Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter shares a party
- Stargate Shackelford / Frontier shares a party
- Stargate UAE shares a party
Questions about this campus
- Is Stargate Norway energized?
- Stargate Norway (Nscale–Aker joint venture and OpenAI offtaker; Kvandal, Narvik, Norway) was promised operations by 31 December 2026; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load against 230 MW announced or estimated. The book’s verdict: transferred.
- When was Stargate Norway promised to be energized?
- Stargate Norway was promised operations by 31 December 2026.
- Who is building Stargate Norway?
- Nscale–Aker joint venture (owner), OpenAI (offtaker), Microsoft (offtaker).
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Stargate Norway.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-norway (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-stargate-norway-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Stargate Norway}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-norway},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}