OpenAI said the new Norway-based data center comes as the European Union races to achieve AI sovereignty by investing in data center and compute power.
Norway is not an EU member state, so most likely that’s a no.
Granted, there are some financial programmes between the two so it’s not completely out of the question.
And what do you mean by funded?
Direct funding of the project?
Subsidizing European companies that build data centres?
Subsidizing investment in key areas of technology?
Subsidizing buildings that meet certain energy efficiency standards?
Trying to court AI companies with legislation?
Subsidizing regional development?
In the end you can interpret the question and answer however you want so that it fits your political views.
However:
The EU usually declares direct investments quite clearly and takes pride in them
The data centre company Aker is British and UK isn’t an EU member state either
The funding sums from all the other parties have been mentioned and there is no mention of EU involvement
Norway is a rich country and its sovereign wealth fund is the largest in the world
We probably agree on the politics around AI and data centres, impact on the environment and so on but what irks me are all the knee-jerk, no second thought comments that contribute to unnecessary polarization and to a group think that’s allergic to facts and curiosity.
And lastly, sorry to pick on your comment like this.
Aker is just investment fund that invest mostly in oil and gas and Nscale is another management company founded in 2024 with $30 million found and then with $155 million Series A to buy datacenters. They don’t have money especially $20 billions but I bet EU have this money so investors are creating this myth that they can take EU money and build something for them.
I bet it will be financed from EU tax money.
Norway is not an EU member state, so most likely that’s a no.
Granted, there are some financial programmes between the two so it’s not completely out of the question.
And what do you mean by funded?
Direct funding of the project?
Subsidizing European companies that build data centres?
Subsidizing investment in key areas of technology?
Subsidizing buildings that meet certain energy efficiency standards?
Trying to court AI companies with legislation?
Subsidizing regional development?
In the end you can interpret the question and answer however you want so that it fits your political views.
However:
The EU usually declares direct investments quite clearly and takes pride in them
The data centre company Aker is British and UK isn’t an EU member state either
The funding sums from all the other parties have been mentioned and there is no mention of EU involvement
Norway is a rich country and its sovereign wealth fund is the largest in the world
We probably agree on the politics around AI and data centres, impact on the environment and so on but what irks me are all the knee-jerk, no second thought comments that contribute to unnecessary polarization and to a group think that’s allergic to facts and curiosity.
And lastly, sorry to pick on your comment like this.
Aker is just investment fund that invest mostly in oil and gas and Nscale is another management company founded in 2024 with $30 million found and then with $155 million Series A to buy datacenters. They don’t have money especially $20 billions but I bet EU have this money so investors are creating this myth that they can take EU money and build something for them.
Those companies has never built anything. Nscale is in partnership with openai from start. You can read more about their spin off from crypto here. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ai-cloud-provider-nscale-acquires-modular-data-center-company-kontena/
It’s shady business there, at least for me.