The company opened the original DC3-Oslo (pictured) nine months ago, but the expansion will double the current capacity at the site.
In July Israeli real estate group Azrieli said it is acquiring 100% of Green Mountain for around $850 million, to expand its data centre activity.
Tor Kristian Gyland (pictured), CEO of Green Mountain, said other expansions will follow. “Norway’s abundance of low-cost renewable power, the government’s beneficial framework conditions, and Green Mountain’s ability to deliver sustainable and high-quality data centres at a rapid speed to market make a strong value proposition,” he said.
“We have secured power and land to grow this site for several years to come.”
The DC3-Oslo site is only 20km from the centre of Oslo. It is Green Mountain’s third data centre site, following one outside Stavanger and another at Rjukan, Telemark. The Stavanger data centre is the eastern landing point for the new 700km NO-UK cable, which is being laid to Newcastle in north-east England.
The Oslo expansion is a built-to-suit project for an unnamed large international cloud provider, said Green Mountain.
Gyland said: “We expect to grow at all our three existing locations, but we also need to expand in other regions. We have already secured land at two different locations on the Norwegian west coast, at Kalberg and Haugaland Business Park.”
Håvard Lurås, project manager of the Oslo expansion, said: “The project progressed nicely although the Covid-19 situation posed challenges with for instance equipment deliveries. However, we managed to find alternative solutions and actually completed the project a few days ahead of schedule.”
