{"id":1003335,"date":"2026-04-16T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003335"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:16:40","slug":"after-uk-exit-openai-scraps-norway-expansion-as-it-leans-on-microsoft-partnership-for-compute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/after-uk-exit-openai-scraps-norway-expansion-as-it-leans-on-microsoft-partnership-for-compute\/","title":{"rendered":"After UK exit, OpenAI scraps Norway expansion as it leans on Microsoft partnership for compute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 continuing a pattern of pulling back from independent infrastructure commitments that has emerged in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by CNBC, the facility in question is a 230-megawatt \u2018Stargate Norway\u2019 campus in Narvik, being built by UK-based AI cloud startup Nscale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 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 \u2018Stargate Norway\u2019 campus in Narvik, being built by UK-based AI cloud startup Nscale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}