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title: "Stargate Norway (Nscale–Aker joint venture; OpenAI offtaker), Kvandal, Narvik, Norway — campus ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-norway
description: "Stargate Norway: transferred. 0 MW evidenced of 230 MW announced or estimated, end of August 2026 reading; operations promised by 31 December 2026."
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# Stargate Norway (Nscale–Aker joint venture; OpenAI offtaker), Kvandal, Narvik, Norway

Nscale–Aker joint venture; OpenAI offtaker (Microsoft from April 2026)

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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Announced or estimated (IT load) 230 MW

Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026 0 MW

The book’s verdict Transferred

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.

The promise and the record, on one line. The book’s verdict: **Transferred**.

- Evidence read 15 April 2026
- Today Nov 2026
- Promised 31 December 2026

**0 MW** evidenced at the end-of-August 2026 reading, of 230 MW announced or estimated (0%).

## The announcement

**Announced or estimated capacity (IT load):** 230 MW

**Where the announcement was read:** [openai.com](https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-norway/)

**When it was read:** 31 July 2025

## The promise

**Promised by:** 31 December 2026

**What was promised:** operations

**Where the promise was read:** [openai.com](https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-norway/)

## At the close of the record

**Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026:** 0 MW

**Where the evidence was read:** [cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/openai-stargate-norway-project-microsoft.html)

**When it was read:** 15 April 2026

**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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/nscale-aker-joint-venture)
- offtaker [OpenAI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/openai)
- offtaker [Microsoft](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/microsoft)

## Filings that bear on it

- [Nscale Ltd, Form S-1 registration statement, filed 18 September 2026](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/nscale-s1-sep26) 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-uk) shares 2 parties
- [PORTS-Pike](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/ports-pike) shares a party
- [Fairwater Wisconsin](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/fairwater-wisconsin) shares a party
- [Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-dona-ana-project-jupiter) shares a party
- [Stargate Shackelford / Frontier](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-shackelford-frontier) shares a party
- [Stargate UAE](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/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).

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