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By Gail Kalinoski<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Kolos<\/a>

Kolos plans massive environmentally friendly data center project for Norway<\/p><\/div>\n

Ballangen, Norway, a town located 140 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is set to become the site of the world\u2019s largest data center as Kolos, a U.S.-Norwegian company prepares to open the first phase of the fully sustainable project by 2018.<\/p>\n

Belonging to a new class of hyper-scale data centers, the facility will be situated in a 100 percent \u201cgreen\u201d location, with abundant hydropower and dark fiber infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe analyzed locations around the world and identified Ballangen as unique, due to Norway\u2019s competitive green energy, cool climate and its large technical workforce. Also the site\u2019s secure moated property and access to international high-performance fiber make it especially compelling,\u201d<\/em> Havard Lillebo, co-CEO of Kolos, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n

The project will stretch over 600,000 square meters (nearly 6.5 million square feet). Designed as a four-story structure integrated into the natural environment, the facility will initially draw on about 70 megawatts of power, but it will have the potential to grow to about 1,000 MW, which would make it the largest data center in the world, according to Gigabit.net.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team understands the importance of building the world\u2019s most powerful data center with respect for the community and environment. We can scale up to two gigawatts of excess power from hydroelectric generation facilities within 25 kilometers [nearly 16 miles] of the planned site. No data center on earth has access to such abundant, clean and inexpensive power,\u201d <\/em>Mark Robinson, co-CEO of Kolos, added in a statement.<\/p>\n

Lillebo told Bloomberg News<\/em> the project will be built in several phases over many years and will be a co-location center with several thousand customers. Headwaters MB, a Denver-based investment banking firm is advising Kolos on securing the capital needed to complete the project. About $200 million to $250 million will be raised in the initial investment round with Headwaters, according to Bloomberg<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cKolos represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to change the data center paradigm globally. Currently, operators are hosting data center infrastructure in some of the largest, most densely populated cities across Europe, with staggering real estate and energy costs,\u201d<\/em> Paul Janson, president & COO of Headwaters, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n

Noting that it will be completely powered by hydroelectric and wind power, Janson called it a \u201cgame changer that will serve as a model for the industry to reduce carbon emissions and eliminate reliance on fossil fuels.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Nordic data centers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Kolos facility would the latest Nordic data center to service major network-centric Internet companies, the firm noted. A report by data center consultancy BroadGroup said Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark could see nearly $4 billion in IT investments by the end of this year. Apple is building a facility in Denmark and Facebook has two data centers in Lulea, Sweden, while Google has a site in Finland.<\/p>\n

Here in North America, data center<\/a> construction is up 43 percent from 2016, according to a new Data Center Outlook| North America report from JLL. Much of the absorption is coming from cloud adoption, the report noted, with 11 of 18 major date markets showing 30 percent or more of their user demand came from the cloud with Northern Virginia, Chicago and Austin\/San Antonio in Texas in the lead. A JLL executive described data center users as \u201cfilling out their global data center footprint and making technology investments to keep them ahead in a rapidly changing industry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Image courtesy of Kolos<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kolos, a company with offices in the U.S. and Europe, has set its sights on Ballangen, a Norwegian town north of the Arctic Circle, as the location for its hyper-scale project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1068,"featured_media":1004189623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21755,21782,21808,16,21742,21786,21787],"tags":[33752,35709,33286,32796,37466],"class_list":["post-1004189621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-centers","category-development","category-featured","category-international","category-latest","category-sustainability","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-jll","tag-kolos"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWorld\u2019s Coolest Data Center Coming to Norway - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-coolest-data-center-coming-to-norway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World\u2019s Coolest Data Center Coming to Norway\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kolos, a company with offices in the U.S. and Europe, has set its sights on Ballangen, a Norwegian town north of the Arctic Circle, as the location for its hyper-scale project.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-coolest-data-center-coming-to-norway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-06T11:55:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-09T03:42:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/Kolos-data-center-in-Norway.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gail Kalinoski\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-coolest-data-center-coming-to-norway\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/worlds-coolest-data-center-coming-to-norway\/\",\"name\":\"World\u2019s Coolest Data Center Coming to Norway - 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