Step 4 · Sell
See what it sells for
Price, fill and contract terms, as scenarios.
Markets and operators: who is building where
The pipeline, the grid, the power, the latency and the rules of a market, and the operators building in it. Counts and dated figures, from the tracker and the official sources.
Data centres in Norway
At a glance: Norway
- Pipeline projects
- 19
- 6 permitted or being built
- Checked 17 Oct 2026
- New grid connections
- Paused
- midlertidig stopp i reservasjoner til fremtidig stort industriforbruk, in force since 22 Apr 2026. Nationwide, transmission
- Checked 23 Oct 2026
- Wholesale power price
- 45€/MWh
- Day-ahead, 2025 mean, Norway
- Calendar year 2025
- Grid carbon intensity
- 28g CO₂/kWh
- Yearly average, Norway
- Latest full year
- Latency to nearest major hub
- 12 ms
- Round trip, Oslo to Amsterdam
- Mapped fibre route, minimum
On 17 October 2026 the pipeline tracker lists 19 data-centre projects in Norway, and 6 of them are permitted or being built.
Data centres in Norway in October 2026
The tracker follows 19 data centre projects of 1 MW or more in Norway, 6 of them permitted or being built. 15 developers are behind them, led by Nscale with 3 projects.
Projects by stage
What the capacity figures measure
Each capacity is on its own stated basis; never added.
Who is building in Norway
And 5 other developers with one project each. A joint venture counts once per partner. All operators and developers.
What changed
6 milestones in the last 90 days; the newest is from Sep 2026.
Power and grid in Norway
Paused
New grid connections are paused (nationwide, transmission, since 22 Apr 2026). Checked 23 Oct 2026. Every country’s grid connections.
Over a year, country level
- Grid carbon, latest full-year average
- 28g CO₂/kWh
- 1st cleanest of 30 countries; 99% renewable or nuclear
- Business electricity price, latest full year
- 57€/MWh
- 1st cheapest of 26; wholesale is 73% of it
- Wholesale power, 2025 average
- 45€/MWh
- 3rd cheapest of 30
- Cooling degree days
- 0a year
- 10-year national mean
Annual averages are national, for the latest full year.
Fibre latency from Oslo
| To | Round trip, minimum | Path length | Path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockholm | 4.3 ms | 438 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Copenhagen | 4.9 ms | 501 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Helsinki | 7.7 ms | 787 km | Straight line (no mapped land route) |
| Amsterdam | 12 ms | 1,188 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Frankfurt | 12 ms | 1,219 km | Mapped fibre route |
| London | 15 ms | 1,528 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Dublin | 15 ms | 1,566 km | Mapped fibre route |
| Paris | 16 ms | 1,635 km | Mapped fibre route |
Floors for light in fibre, city centre to city centre; operator fibre adds to this.
Rules and dates
No dated rule on the calendar for Norway right now.
Formal refusals and bans since 2025
No area-wide rule recorded for Norway.
Decisions from 1 Jan 2025; statuses checked 21 Oct 2026. A market with none recorded is not a low risk market.
Projects of 1 MW or more, announced to under construction, not yet fully operating; a metro includes its region. Capacities are never added, and no project is listed. Grid: new-connection status from the grid connection tracker. Over a year: national averages, latest full year. Latency: light in fibre over the mapped land route, else the straight line. Sources, 3 official bodies, checked 11 October 2026: Elvia, Statnett, Våler kommune.