Published 2026-09-12 · Event 2026-06-09

Green Horizon’s Norway 1 paper is a planning approval, not a commissioned Stavanger hall

On 9 June 2026 Green Horizon said it had received planning approval for Norway 1, a 36 MW inaugural data centre in southwest Norway with construction later in 2026 and ready-for-service in the second half of 2027. Planning approval is not a live hall.

Green Horizon’s 9 June 2026 operator notice is the dated planning-approval source used here. It says the Norwegian developer, owner and operator has received planning approval for Norway 1, its inaugural data-centre development. The company had previously secured zoning approval for the site. Planning approval is not a commissioned hall.

The size sentence must stay a size sentence. Norway 1 is written as the company’s inaugural 36 MW development, designed for high-density AI, GPU and high-performance-computing deployments, with liquid-cooling readiness. The wider Stavanger platform is written as 96 MW of power secured for three developments. Those are company-printed platform figures. They are not a live load and not a reserved Swedish offtake.

The heat sentence must stay a plan-and-approval sentence. Heat reuse is written as integral. The company plans to provide excess heat from Norway 1 to a new greenhouse integrated into the data-centre design — sitting on the roof — and to Norway’s largest greenhouse immediately adjacent to the data centre. The concept has been technically validated and has received unanimous approval from the local municipality. A planned greenhouse roof is not a signed heat-volume contract printed on this page.

Named neighbouring papers stay on their own files. Green Mountain’s Undheim and Halden notes, atNorth’s Haugaland land paper and Statnett’s maturity and Svartisen notes are different dates and different counterparties. This article does not import a reserved NO megawatt into a southwest-Norway planning-approval day.

DataCenterSweden records 9 June 2026 as a Green Horizon Norway 1 planning-approval notice. No project identifier is attached. The next update would need a later primary source that names a construction start, a commissioned 2027 hall or a signed heat offtake. Until then, 36 MW stays the printed first-phase figure — not a live Stavanger hall.

Why it matters

A 36 MW southwest-Norway headline is easy to file as spare Nordic hall power. The June notice is usable only if the planning paper stays an approval — not a commissioned hall.

What remains unknown

The notice does not name the municipality, start construction, close a heat-volume contract or say the second-half-2027 ready-for-service date is already live.

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