Published 2026-09-12 · Event 2026-02-05

Sollefteå says it intends to sign a Hamre development agreement with atNorth

On 5 February 2026 Sollefteå Municipality said it and atNorth had prepared an agreement for a large-scale high-density data center and that the most advantageous location was the already-planned Hamre 1 land. The notice is a municipal intention. It does not by itself prove that the council signed, that construction started, or that megawatts were reserved.

Sollefteå’s 5 February 2026 notice is the municipal source used here. It says the municipality and atNorth are taking the next step and have prepared an agreement for establishment of a large-scale high-density data center. It says the parties concluded that the most advantageous location is the part of the industrial area previously called Hamre 1, because the land is already covered by a detailed development plan. Faster construction start is presented as a municipal expectation, not as a recorded groundbreaking.

The notice is explicit about process. The matter is to be decided by the municipal council in February. The new agreement is described as replacing the previous year’s letter of intent. A later detailed development plan for a new area is described as expected during 2026. Those sentences tell a reader which decisions were still ahead on 5 February. They should not be rewritten as completed votes unless a later primary source records the vote.

Job and investment language in the same notice is municipal expectation. The municipality says the establishment is expected to create more than 100 new jobs at full operation plus indirect services, and a significant number of jobs during construction. It says work is planned to be able to start during 2026, provided that all permits are granted. “Provided that” is the load-bearing clause. It keeps the notice inside the development band.

The notice does not publish a megawatt figure. The 300 MW campus sentence arrives later, in atNorth’s 23 February operator notice. The 200 MW E.ON sentence arrives later still, in the 28 May municipal grid notice. Reading those later numbers back into the 5 February intention would collapse three dates into one false permit-and-power event.

Heat is mentioned only as a possibility. The municipality says residual heat from the facility can be used for large-scale cultivation or industrial processes. That is an opening for circular solutions, not a named offtaker, a temperature or a delivered volume. It belongs with other described heat sentences, not with GleSYS’s 2020 Falkenberg delivery start.

For a developer the next documents are the council decision that the notice said would follow, the signed development agreement if it exists, the current Hamre plan map, and the environmental and building-permit route. The municipal planning-cases page remains a live index, not a substitute for the adopted plan documents.

DataCenterSweden records 5 February 2026 as a municipally reported intention and plan-location choice for SWE04. It does not mark the agreement signed, the hall permitted or the site under construction. The value of the notice is the sequence it makes visible: letter of intent, prepared agreement, council decision, permits, then construction.

Why it matters

A municipal intention on already-planned land is a real process step. It is only safe to use if it is not rewritten as a signed contract, a permit or a megawatt reservation.

What remains unknown

The 5 February notice does not record the council vote, a signed agreement, a megawatt figure, a grid paper or construction start.

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