atNorth plans Danish data center expansion in Ballerup

The Nordic data center developer atNorth, just announced its plans for a Danish expansion.

atNorth is scheduled to go live in Q4 2024 with a new advanced data center in Denmark. The data center, called DEN01, will be atNorth's ninth data center, and after the opening, atNorth will be present in four of the five Nordic countries.

When completed, DEN01 will operate at a capacity of up to 30 MW to allow high-performance workloads. The data center is located on a large site to allow atNorth to scale efficiently with customer demand. The data center will also be ISO27001 and ISO14001 compliant and will adhere to Tier 3 standards.

The new site will take advantage of Denmark's cool climate and good connections to the European mainland and is strategically located near the waste and energy company Vestforbrænding, which today supplies district heating to the equivalent of 70,000 households. Here, you will be able to utilize the data center's heat recycling technology, which will potentially be able to supply heat to several thousand Ballerup citizens when it is finished.

The data center will also be able to accommodate Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) technology to support HPC and AI workloads in Denmark in an energy-efficient manner in line with atNorth's commitment to sustainable operations.

The news of a large data center in the North is in line with atNorth's ambitious growth strategy and supports the desire to meet the growing demand for cost-effective and sustainable high-performance computing services.

"Our data center locations are very carefully selected to meet our strict requirements for scalability and energy efficiency," says atNorth CEO, Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson. "We are pleased to invest in Denmark's data center market and to expand our facilities in the market at a time when there is an increasing demand for digital infrastructure."

Read the full press release here.