Bitdeer Technologies Group (Nasdaq: BTDR) subsidiary Tydal Data Center AS (TDC) has signed a construction agreement with Data Center Installations AS (DCI) to convert its Tydal facility into a 180-megawatt (MW) artificial intelligence (AI) data center, targeting completion by December 2026. The site, located at the Kirkvollen industrial area in Tydal municipality, Trøndelag county, Norway, was originally a bitcoin mining facility and will now be fully repurposed for AI compute infrastructure.
Partnership and Design Details
Norwegian contractor DCI, part of Sparc Group AB since 2025, will manage the project end-to-end, covering design, planning, installation, testing, commissioning, and ongoing maintenance. The facility will be configured primarily for AI co-location services built around Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPU architecture, adhering to Nvidia's reference design. Customer installations are scheduled to begin after completion. If delivered on schedule, the Tydal site will become Norway's largest operational AI data center and rank among the largest in Europe by installed capacity.
Sustainability and Energy Advantages
The facility already draws 100% carbon-free hydroelectric power and uses immersion cooling. Excess heat generated on-site will be routed to support food production on a neighboring property. Norway's low-cost hydro power and existing data center infrastructure have attracted hyperscale and AI compute operators seeking carbon-compliant capacity at scale.
Strategic Significance and Global Reach
Haakon Bryhni, chairman and co-founder of TDC, described the Tydal conversion as "a cornerstone of Bitdeer's global strategy to meet the explosive demand for AI data centers," emphasizing sustainable, capital-efficient growth alongside local economic value. Bjørn Arve Olsen, co-founder at DCI, called the contract "a significant milestone for DCI, both financially and operationally," citing the project's scale and built-in cost and schedule controls.
Singapore-headquartered Bitdeer operates data centers across the United States, Norway, Bhutan, and Ethiopia, with a business model spanning bitcoin mining and high-performance AI compute infrastructure. The company has been advancing the Tydal site's pivot from bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure through 2025 and into 2026, ordering long-lead equipment and progressing design work ahead of this contract award. The project provides Bitdeer with a dedicated European AI co-location hub powered by renewable energy, at a time when demand for GPU-dense data center capacity continues to outpace supply across the continent.
About DCI and Sparc Group
DCI's parent company, Sparc Group AB, is a Swedish installation firm with more than 1,000 employees operating across HVAC, electrical, infrastructure, and security sectors in Sweden and Norway.