The data center industry has long loved talking about the Nordics. But the focus in many of those conversations has generally been on Norway and Sweden. The two countries boast gigawatts of live and planned capacity, while Finland has, until recently, had barely one AI campus’ worth of capacity live or in development.
But times are changing. As the Finns say, Hiljaa hyvä tulee – the good comes slowly – and the country’s data center market is now quickly growing. After years of hosting a small colocation market around the capital city, Helsinki, a slew of new large-scale data center projects are being planned across the country. Gigawatts of new capacity could be coming to the country in the next five years.
Has the demand for land and power amid an AI boom finally staved off fears over neighboring Russia?
Issue 60 - Quantum of promise
Building the chips to power quantum computers
