Representatives from the boards in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland were gathered for the second time to formalize and dedicate their focus on future collaboration. Spanning across two days, the Nordic board meeting discussed strategies for future cooperation, marketing initiatives, and activities for 2025.
A key topic of discussion was increasing energy consumption and electricity requirements within the data center industry. With global electricity demands for data centers projected to double in the coming years, maintaining the Nordic power advantage and ensuring sufficient investments in the grid will be essential in coming years.
In addition to discussions on power, one of the key discussions centered on how to continue the work of creating a shared branding platform for the Nordics. The Nordics continue to share a strong value proposition for data centers when it comes to energy, infrastructure, and climate – political and weather.
Last year, the Nordic associations successfully set out specific goals to continue working on implementation of the EED (link), to participate in Data Cloud Global Congress (link), to launch the first Nordic Data Center Week (link), and to launch a Nordic AI infrastructure event (link).
A newly established steering group and dedicated working groups will now continue and scale the activities plan for 2025.
The inaugural Nordic AI Infrastructure Forum gathered leaders within AI to discuss how the Nordic region can cooperate on building sustainable infrastructure to support AI technologies.
The Forum featured a lineup of distinguished speakers who delved into the latest trends and challenges in AI and data center infrastructure.
Highlights from the forum included:
The event concluded with the heads of the Nordic data center organizations summarizing the past year as well as the planned highlights for 2025. Based on broad agreement that we are stronger together; participants were sent home to ponder how we can facilitate the change in the industry that we are waiting for.
The next Nordic Board meeting and AI Infrastructure Forum are set to take place in Oslo, Norway, in November 2025.
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