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Dated news on Swedish data center projects: grid agreements, planning decisions, land deals, investments and commissioning. Every item has a source.

An industrial interior with equipment carts and overhead pipework. Photo Lawrence Krowdeed on Unsplash 2026-09-10
EcoDataCenter annual report: Falun C and D commissioned, 41 MW statedEcoDC Holding’s 2025 annual report is the dated source for Falun C and D being commissioned and for the reported move from 29 MW to 41 MW as of the balance-sheet date. It also separates future E/F expectations from an 80 MW available-power statement.

Construction cranes above a generic industrial building site. Photo Sergej Karpow on Unsplash 2026-09-10
evroc reports Arlandastad land purchase for a flagship hallThe 3 February 2025 evroc notice documents a 4,890 m² land and building-rights deal near Stockholm Arlanda, with a GPU design, an announced 18 MW capacity of undefined scope and an investment intention. It is a development-stage source, not evidence of permits, construction start or commissioning.

A close view of components and braided cables inside a generic compute server. Photo Đào Hiếu on Unsplash 2026-09-10
Conapto says Stockholm 4 South is open; south campus stated at 24 MWConapto’s 5 September 2024 release says Stockholm 4 South opened and describes a 24 MW south-campus figure. The related 4 MW Stockholm 2 South phase figure is kept separate, and the release is treated as an operator claim rather than an inspection certificate.

Utility transformers and a web of overhead power lines against a clear sky. Photo Alivia Alva on Unsplash 2026-09-10
SE1–SE4 review reading guide: what 29 May 2026 did and did not changeOn 29 May 2026 the government expanded Svenska kraftnät’s assignment to analyse Sweden’s bidding-area division. The report is due on 29 January 2027. An EU-wide review reported on 28 April 2025 did not propose changing Sweden’s four areas. Until any later legal change, SE1 Luleå, SE2 Sundsvall, SE3 Stockholm and SE4 Malmö remain the operative wholesale areas. They still do not allocate spare megawatts to a plot.

Insulated pipes, valves and gauges in a heating system. Photo Immo Wegmann on Unsplash 2026-09-10
Stockholm heat reuse: Data Parks invitation versus delivered heatStockholm Data Parks invites data centers that recover heat into a city system named by the City of Stockholm, Stockholm Exergi, Ellevio and Stokab. atNorth and Conapto publish operator wording about Stockholm Exergi. Those sentences sit in the prepared or described band unless a dated delivery start or a measured volume is shown. GleSYS’s 1 October 2020 start of delivery to Falkenberg Energi is the dated west-coast contrast. This register does not invent Stockholm megawatt-hours.

Rows of lit server racks in a data-hall aisle. Photo Taylor Vick on Unsplash 2026-09-10
Northern hyperscale cluster reading guide: Luleå, Boden, Meta, Hydro66Norrbotten contains two publicly documented data-center hooks in SE1: Meta’s Luleå campus, operational from 2013 on the cited careers page, and a Hydro66 Svenska company record in Boden. Current megawatts for both files are unknown in the sources used here. A 2011 announced energy need is not current operating capacity. The two municipalities are not one campus. A hydropower sentence is not a connection agreement.

Insulated pipes, valves and gauges in a heating system. Photo Immo Wegmann on Unsplash 2026-09-10
West-coast hall and heat: GleSYS Falkenberg’s 3 MW and 5 MW rowsOn 1 October 2020 GleSYS said heat delivery from its new Falkenberg hall to Falkenberg Energi had started, and listed 3 MW utility power at completion. A later operator page states 5 MW total capacity and continues to describe district-heat recovery. Those are two dated rows. Halland sits in SE4. This register does not invent a second Halland hall and does not convert 2020 potential heat wording into a measured megawatt-hour series.

An industrial interior with equipment carts and overhead pipework. Photo Lawrence Krowdeed on Unsplash 2026-09-10
Foreign investment screening reader: ISP literacy without nationality slogansSweden screens certain foreign direct investments. The Riksdag adopted the Screening of Foreign Direct Investments Act (2023:560) on 13 September 2023. The Act entered into force on 1 December 2023. Inspektionen för strategiska produkter is the screening authority. Whether a filing is required depends on the activity and the investment structure. This article does not label nationalities as approved or forbidden and does not decide a case.

Utility transformers and a web of overhead power lines against a clear sky. Photo Alivia Alva on Unsplash 2026-09-10
Grid-queue literacy: indicative, applied, reserved, allocated, energizedSvenska kraftnät’s indicative transmission-network capacity map is a 2026 county-level indication. It does not replace the formal connection process and does not show underlying-network capacity. Applied, reserved, allocated and energized are different categories on the authority’s own page. They must not be summed into a spare-megawatt figure for a plot in Luleå, Falun, Stockholm or Staffanstorp.
Older short notes on grid operators’ project pages and neighbouring countries are in the background-note archive.