After UK exit, OpenAI scraps Norway expansion as it leans on Microsoft partnership for compute
OpenAI has abandoned plans to directly rent computing capacity from a planned data centre in northern Norway even as Microsoft has stepped in to buy extra power from it. The latest development comes after ChatGPT-maker pulled back from a similar project in the UK – continuing a pattern of pulling back from independent infrastructure commitments that has emerged in recent weeks.
According to a report by CNBC, the facility in question is a 230-megawatt ‘Stargate Norway’ campus in Narvik, being built by UK-based AI cloud startup Nscale.
