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2026-11-13

Hylte municipality has confirmed that Magnora Data Center AB with subsidiaries holds the building permit for the planned data centre in Hyltebruk. The grid installation is being designed with the regional network owner E.ON. No investment decision has been taken, and the first phase could be in operation around 2029.

2026-11-13

Hylte's community-development committee granted building permits on 21 October 2026 for a data centre on Västra Åkralt 1:80 in Hyltebruk and for a receiving station to supply it. The applicant states an installed IT capacity of about 60 MW. According to Sveriges Radio P4 Halland, the applicant is Magnora Data Center.

2026-11-10

Fossefall said on 10 November 2026 that it has signed a grid connection agreement with Vattenfall Eldistribution AB securing 65 MW for a planned AI factory in Jokkmokk, with the potential for a further 135 MW. Construction is expected to start in the second quarter of 2027, subject to a final investment decision.

2026-11-10

EcoDataCenter is consulting on a planned data centre at Norrsundet in Gävle municipality ahead of an application for a permit under the Environmental Code. SMHI published its response to the scoping and Seveso consultation on 30 October 2026. The project is now in the register.

2026-11-10

On 9 November 2026 the extraordinary general meeting of EcoDC Holding AB resolved on a directed issue of not more than 306,409 ordinary shares and 75,895 series 10 preference shares to Areim Investment DC AB. According to the company, the capital is to enable growth.

2026-11-06

Telenor Sverige said on 6 November 2026 that it has completed the acquisitions of 57.5 percent of the shares and 87.9 percent of the votes in Bahnhof and has published an unconditional mandatory cash offer of SEK 62 per share to remaining shareholders. Bahnhof operates five of the data centres in the register, four in Stockholm and one in Malmö.

2026-11-09

According to Norran, Skellefteå Municipality issued a partial start notice on 29 October 2026 that lets EdgeConneX begin foundation works for its first data-centre phase on the former Northvolt site. The notice covers the foundations only.

2026-11-05

atNorth and the heat-recovery developer Calentix have signed a project development agreement on recovering surplus heat from atNorth's planned SWE04 data centre in Sollefteå. According to Calentix, the first phase would deliver 1.6 MW of heat to the Långsele district heating network, with potential for about 20 MW. The target for the first heat delivery is the second quarter of 2029.

2026-11-04

Konkurrensverket, the Swedish Competition Authority, decided on 2 November 2026 to take no action against Telenor Sverige's acquisition of sole control of Bahnhof. According to Telenor, all regulatory conditions for the deal have now been met. Bahnhof operates five of the data centres in the register, four in Stockholm and one in Malmö.

2026-11-04

Enersense said on 3 November 2026 that it has signed a contract with E.ON Energidistribution to build two new 130 kV overhead lines between the Hamre and Nässe substations in Sollefteå. According to the company, the lines will help provide the infrastructure for atNorth's planned 300 MW data-centre campus at Hamre. Work starts in November 2026 and is due to be completed in March 2029.

2026-11-03

Svenska kraftnät said on 3 November 2026 that it is developing new methods for assessing how large connections, including large data centres, affect the power system as a whole. While that work is under way, the authority is considering temporary restrictions in how it handles applications with large individual withdrawals.

2026-11-02

According to Svenska Dagbladet, Romanian workers at Microsoft's data-centre construction site in Gävle describe poor conditions, including crowded staff housing, broken ventilation, cold and a case of active tuberculosis.

2026-11-02

Västra Gästriklands samhällsbyggnadsförvaltning granted a building permit on 16 October 2026 for a data centre with offices, switchgear and a transformer station on the property Vallhalla 1:125, Fallåsvägen 51, west of Lingbo. A second permit for a transformer station on the same property followed on 23 October. The notices do not name the applicant or give any power capacity.

2026-10-30

Halmstad's community-development committee on 22 September 2026 backed a letter of intent with Kistinge Infrastruktur AB on the municipal property Fyllinge 20:432. The company wants to build a data centre there and deliver waste heat to the district-heating network. The deal requires at least 10 MW of connected power. The company has until 30 April 2027 to say whether it wants to buy the land.

2026-10-30

Magnora Data Center ASA said in its third-quarter report, published on 30 October 2026, that it has established two more projects in southern Sweden with a combined planned capacity of 80 MW. The report does not name the municipalities or the properties.

2026-10-29

Region Gotland's executive board on 21 April 2026 allocated the property Visby Navaren 2 directly to SunSpark Nordic AB. The company wants to build data centres together with solar parks on Gotland. A land allocation agreement valid for two years is still to be decided by the board. No power capacity is given.

2026-10-28

Grid company Ellevio said on 28 October 2026 that it has signed connection agreements for data centres totalling about 400–500 megawatts, and that Gävleborg accounts for the largest share of its active data-centre cases. The release names no customer, site or connection date.

2026-10-28

Tranemo municipal executive committee on 15 October 2026 referred back a case on selling about 35,000 square metres of industrial land on part of Limmared 1:6 to Magnora for a data centre. The case goes to the general committee for further preparation "to enable an establishment". No land agreement has been decided.

2026-10-27

Torsås municipal executive committee gave SunSpark Nordic AB a positive planning decision on 24 March 2026 for a data centre of about 10,000 square metres on the property Övraby 1:98 in Söderåkra. The site is 2.6 hectares of pasture. In September the municipality registered new site proposals from the company. No power capacity is given.

2026-10-27

Enköping municipality has received a request to build a data centre on municipal farmland at Ullunda. On 30 September 2026 a committee of the municipal executive board told the land and development unit to run a development project up to the adoption of a detailed plan. The developer is not named. No power capacity is given.

2026-10-26

Hultsfred's municipal executive committee approved a letter of intent with Magnora Project Infra 2 AB on 1 September 2026. It covers an investigation into a data centre on Verktyget 4 and 5 and part of Hultsfred 3:1 in the Nyhagen industrial area. No land sale has been decided. The developer pays for further studies first.

2026-10-23

Bräcke's municipal council decided on 21 October 2026 to sell parcels 4 and 6 of the property Bräcke 2:1 to Roofscapes AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vostroblock Group AB, for SEK 1,221,000. The municipality bought the land in December 2025 to make room for Vostroblock's development of a data centre in Bräcke.

2026-10-23

Sundsvall's urban planning committee handled the detailed plan for Vattjom 2:42 and Söderåsen 2:6 in Almåsen on 21 October 2026. The plan covers about 42 hectares next to SCA's timber terminal in Töva and names data centres as an example of the power-intensive use it is meant for. The committee's approved minutes, published after our first report, confirm that it proposed that the municipal council adopt the plan. The council is expected to decide on 30 November.

2026-10-21

On 21 October 2026 the Riksdag authorised the government to enter financial commitments in agreements on computing capacity linked to EuroHPC's procurement of AI gigafactories. Sweden's contribution can reach EUR 50 million over five years. The procurement remains open until 3 December; the decision buys compute access, not a data centre site in Sweden.

2026-10-20

The municipal building and environment committee granted the permit on 24 September 2026 for the property Ackumulatorn 3 on the former Northvolt site. Construction may not start until the municipality has issued a start notice.

2026-10-17

The 13 October announcement names AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs and Bull as the integration partner. It does not identify the facility, delivery schedule, GPU count or electrical demand.

2026-10-16

The shared Swedish AI supercomputer began running in late summer and was launched publicly on 15 October. Its partners have started use cases, but the sources do not state the facility's IT load, electrical demand or data-centre site details.

2026-10-13

A signed construction contract moves the Uppsala package toward delivery, with work planned from 2027. The transmission project is a long-term regional reinforcement, not a connection offer or new capacity allocation for an individual data-centre site.

2026-10-05

Updated 15 October 2026: EcoDataCenter’s counsel reported the SEK 1,000m green-bond issue completed on 9 October. The issuer had set 15 October for redemption of the remaining 2024 bonds; completion of that payment is not confirmed in the sources reviewed.

2026-09-12

On 4 February 2025 Vattenfall said it would match renewable production hour by hour to Digital Realty’s six existing Stockholm data centres, using smart meters. Hourly matching is not new hall power and not a heat contract.