Microsoft is expanding its European footprint with a data center in Sandnes, Norway.The project was revealed by the company on June 30, and will see a data center developed in the Sandnes Municipality, which is part of the Stavanger region.The plot of land the data center will be constructed on spans 64 acres and was purchased for NOK153.6 million from Forusstranda Næringspark and Kvål Næringspark. Located at Kvål in Ganddal, it is already zoned for industrial use.According to E24, the data center will have 25MW of capacity. Further details about the project have not been provided."The Stavanger region has driven Norwegian value creation for decades, and we are proud to contribute to the region's next era by building modern digital infrastructure that supports Norwegian jobs and accelerates innovation across business and the public sector," said Kristine Dahl Steidel, CEO of Microsoft Norway.According to the company, the data center will "complement" Microsoft's Norway East region, which opened in 2019. The company has three data centers as part of that region: in Fetsund in Akershus, in Ytre Enebakk and Hobøl in Holtskogen business park, and in Green Mountain's mountain hall in Rennesøy in Rogaland.Also in Norway, Microsoft has signed an agreement with Nscale to lease access to 30,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs hosted in a data center in Narvik, northern Norway. That data center is estimated to have 230MW of capacity. The two had a pre-existing contract related to the site, with Microsoft having signed on for $6.2 billion of capacity in September 2025. How much the new agreement is worth has not been shared.