A large data center campus has been pitched in Greenland.

CNBC reports that a gigawatt-scale data center development is being planned in the Kangerlussuaq area, on the Danish territory’s western coast.

Talking to CNBC, Drew Horn, a senior aide to Trump’s first-term vice president Mike Pence and CEO of GreenMet, said his company is offering strategic support to the project.

The first 300MW could go live by mid-2027, before reaching 1.5GW by the end of 2028.

The campus would reportedly use specialized barges carrying Liquefied Natural Gas to the fjord to generate power, alongside a new hydroelectric plant.

Further details haven’t been shared, and the project has reportedly yet to secure land or approvals from the local authorities.

“We’ve spent about a year putting together everything from the power to the technology components, [and] we have a Greenlandic partner on the ground,” Horn said. “Right now we’re waiting on approvals from the Greenlandic side.”

Horn said the multi-billion-dollar project has binding commitments from investors to finance half of its initial phase of development and half of the final phase. The financing is in the form of debt and equity, according to CNBC.

Totaling less than 60,000 people, there is digital connectivity infrastructure in Greenland outside of the establishment of NATO installations. The territory’s current data center market is tiny, with local state-owned telco Tusass operating two facilities in the capital, Nuuk. Tusass also has three satellite ground station sites in Ittoqqortoormiit, Qaanaaq, and Tasiilaq. The telco also operates two subsea cables – one domestic and one connecting to Iceland and Canada.

Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. US President Donald Trump, however, is attempting to take over the world’s largest island and NATO member.

After talk of potentially acquiring Greenland during his first term, the president has ramped up his efforts. In March 2025, US President Donald Trump said that his country would take control of Greenland “one way or the other.”

In recent weeks, he has pressed the issue further, potentially suggesting the US may take the territory by force if it can’t buy the island as a way to protect the US against Russia. He has since said he won’t use force, and currently appears set to simply expand its military presence.

Denmark has rejected any prospect of selling the island, saying its troops would fight back in the wake of any invasion by American forces. The matter remains unresolved.

Horn noted that while officials on all sides have been supportive of the data center project, the “issue is not so much on the private side, it’s on the diplomatic.”

“Our effort, which is purely private, it succeeds only if we have the buy-in from the relevant affected parties and countries,” he added.

Talks about the US purchasing Greenland from Denmark date back to 1867, with another offer coming in 1910. The US, however, announced its recognition of Danish sovereignty over all Greenland as a condition for its purchase of the Virgin Islands in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies. The US secretly offered to buy Greenland in 1946 for $100 million (around $1.6 billion today), but was rejected by Denmark.

Today, the US operates one airbase – Pituffik Space Base, previously called Thule Air Base – in Greenland, having previously shuttered its other bases in the territory.

After Norse settlement between the 9th and 14th Centuries, Danish sovereignty over Greenland dates back to the early 1600s and expeditions commissioned by King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway, followed by further Danish settlement in the first half of the 1700s.

GreenMet describes itself as a US strategic development firm focused on building “reliable critical mineral and advanced material supply chains.”