Published 2026-11-13 · Event 2026-10-21 · The editorial team

Hylte grants building permit for 60 MW data centre in Hyltebruk

Hylte's community-development committee granted building permits on 21 October 2026 for a data centre on Västra Åkralt 1:80 in Hyltebruk and for a receiving station to supply it. The applicant states an installed IT capacity of about 60 MW. According to Sveriges Radio P4 Halland, the applicant is Magnora Data Center.

The decision is item 91 of the committee's minutes of 21 October 2026 (case 2026 SBN0103). It covers a business building in the form of a data centre with a pump house and a guardhouse. The main building has a building area of about 14,000 square metres and a ridge height of 12 metres. The applicant writes that the building is designed for an installed IT capacity of about 60 MW.

Outside the building, 48 EPOD units with a total building area of about 2,928 square metres are planned. According to the municipality's environmental unit, each has a container on top with a diesel engine and a generator for backup power. Cooling is by 40 roof-mounted units using free cooling, screened by acoustic walls. According to the noise modelling cited in the minutes, noise from the cooling units and a transformer reaches 39 dB(A) at the nearest house at maximum operation, with an easterly wind and an outdoor temperature of +30 °C.

Under item 90 (case 2026 SBN0102) the committee also granted a permit for a 300-square-metre control building. Together with an outdoor switchyard and two large transformer stations it forms a receiving station that is to supply the planned data centre.

The property lies in central Hyltebruk between national road 26 and Gamla Nissastigen, with a paper mill to the east. It is covered by detailed plan Hyltebruk 618, in legal force since 20 July 2023, for industry and business. A gas pipeline crosses the area; Nordion Energi saw no obstacle to the project in its consultation response.

The minutes do not name the applicant. Sveriges Radio P4 Halland reported on 12 November that Magnora Data Center applied for the permit, and that the deputy municipal manager expects several hundred jobs from construction and operation. In a second report the same day, the company's chief executive declined to say who will lease the centre and said it will eventually have 100 permanent jobs.

On 13 November Sveriges Radio P4 Värmland reported that Magnora also wants to build a data centre at Reocean's planned land-based salmon farm in Säffle, using waste heat in the farm. The plans are at an early stage. No municipal decision on Säffle has been found, and the register has no entry for it.

The register now has an entry for the Hylte data centre. The 60 MW is recorded as the applicant's design figure for IT capacity, not as a connection agreement.

Why it matters

It is the first building permit in the register for a Magnora site in Sweden, and the first data-centre building permit among the register's Halland files. In its October report the company said it had one 60 MW project in bidding area SE4 and two more in southern Sweden, without naming municipalities. Earlier Magnora files in Hultsfred and Tranemo are at the letter-of-intent and land-deal stage.

What remains unknown

Which network owner will connect the receiving station, with what capacity and when, is not published. Investment, timetable, end customer and whether the permits have gained legal force are not known. Whether Hylte is the 60 MW SE4 project the company has described is not stated in the sources.

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