Aker Nscale has entered into an agreement with Løvenskiold-Fossum Kraft Drift to develop a 96MW data center in Skien, Norway.

The company aims to establish a data center capable of supporting AI workloads and has applied for grid capacity from Statnett.

Leopold Løvenskiold, the general manager and owner of Løvenskiold-Fossum, said: “We believe the data center will attract new, attractive labor and be an important contributor to immigration and value creation in the region. This is a new milestone in the industrial development of Løvenskiold-Fossum.”

Løvenskiold-Fossum manages 330,000 acres of forest property, and under its “Kraft” business operates several small power plants.

Details about the data center project and its exact location remain sparse. DCD has contacted Aker Nscale for further information.

Aker Nscale is a joint venture between neocloud Nscale and investment firm Aker that was formalized in October 2025. The JV is also planning a 250MW data center in Narvik and a 230MW data center in Kvandal. In November, the company purchased land in Fauske, Norway, from Norwegian holding company Norsk Data.

Google is also developing a data center campus in Skien with 240MW of capacity, having broken ground on the project in February 2024. The land was also owned by Leopold Løvenskiold, and was said at the time to span 200 hectares and sold for around $18 million.

Skien is a municipality in the Telemark county, in southern Norway. It is around 134km (83.2 miles)southwest of Oslo.