Data center company Green Mountain has broken ground on its third data center site, expanding its colocation offering into Norway.
Green Mountain has options to expand at the site and plans to gradually develop the area into a large data center campus. Upon completion, it will increase the company’s capacity by 40 megawatts.
“A computer-driven world needs data centers,” stated Nicolay Astrup, the Norwegian minister of digitalization. “Norway has all the prerequisites for becoming a leading data center nation.”
Green Mountain has invested almost NOK 400 million ($44 million) in expanding its two other data center sites in Norway, an underground facility outside Stavanger and a facility at Rjukan, Telemark. It will invest an additional NOK 420 million ($46 million) into the new site.
Both data centers are tier III certified by the Uptime Institute for design and facility. Existing customers include banks, energy, IT service providers, government agencies and large enterprises.
“To support our growth strategy, we have for a long time considered an expansion in this part of Norway,” said Tor Kristian Gyland, CEO of Green Mountain. “One of our largest existing clients specifically requested us to build in the capital area, so our first building at this site is reserved entirely for this client.”
He added, “We have already received several customer requests, both national and international, so it is likely that a multi-tenant data center facility will be the next step of the expansion.”
The new site manager of the DC3-Oslo site is already employed and will soon initiate the process of recruiting technical staff, according to Green Mountain. The first 4-megawatt building is expected to be completed in September 2020.
