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OpenAI pulls out of Stargate Norway, hands data center off to Microsoft

This is the third piece of Project Stargate that OpenAI is retreating from since a flurry of announcements last year.

Jon Keegan

First, OpenAI scrapped the expansion of its Abilene, Texas, Stargate I data center site. Then it killed Stargate UK. Now, Stargate Norway is the latest piece of the once grand Stargate global data center project to die.

Announced in July 2025, Stargate Norway was planned as a 230-megawatt data center, built with partner Nscale, to host over 100,000 Nvidia GPUs by the end of this year.

Sitting well above the Arctic Circle near Narvik, Norway, the data center site will now be rented to OpenAI partner Microsoft, which intends to rent an additional 30,000 of the latest Vera Rubin Nvidia GPUs for the site, according to a report from Bloomberg.

OpenAI has been pulling back on several of its “side quests” as it seeks to double down on coding and enterprise tools in response to intense competition from Anthropic.

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