{"id":150415,"date":"2025-09-17T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150415\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:21:09","slug":"microsoft-strikes-6-billion-deal-to-rent-ai-compute-power-in-norway-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150415\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft strikes $6\u00a0billion deal to rent AI compute power in Norway \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg\/Brody Ford) \u2014 Microsoft Corp. will pay $6.2 billion to rent AI computing power in Norway.<\/p>\n<p>The British data center company Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. and Norwegian investment company Aker ASA will provide the capacity, the companies said in a statement Wednesday. The project will be powered by \u201csecured grid capacity and entirely renewable electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest software maker has been renting more cloud capacity from third-party providers such as Coreweave Inc. of late. Last week, Microsoft inked a deal worth as much as $19.4 billion with Nebius Group NV. These so-called neoclouds typically use high-powered chips from Nvidia Corp. to provide computing for artificial intelligence services.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Microsoft announced a separate partnership with Nscale to develop a data center near London with more than 23,000 advanced graphics processing units. Microsoft said it would spend about $15 billion on cloud infrastructure in the UK over the next four years \u2014 an announcement that coincided with President Donald Trump\u2019s state visit to the country.<\/p>\n<p>More stories like this are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bloomberg.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a92025 Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: September 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg\/Brody Ford) \u2014 Microsoft Corp. will pay $6.2 billion to rent AI computing power in Norway. The British&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[254,64,63,99,257,3914,2577,101070,14916,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-150415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-computing","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-microsoft","15":"tag-morning-wire","16":"tag-silicon-valley","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}