Interpreting grid capacity

Reading order

Read the verb before the number. Was the megawatt figure announced, applied for, reserved, contracted, commissioned, or only drawn on an indicative map? Then read the noun: IT load, facility, site, campus, utility, or an unclear “available power.” Then read the date. A 2020 marketing sentence and a 2025 balance-sheet sentence are two rows even when they describe the same campus in Falun.

Only after those three reads should you decide whether two figures may be compared. They may be compared when they share a definition, a site and a date logic. They may not be summed because they share a municipality or a bidding area. SE3 is not a capacity account. Stockholm is not a capacity account. A map cell on Svenska kraftnät’s transmission layer is not a capacity account.

• Verb first: announced, applied, reserved, contracted, energized, or mapped.
• Noun second: IT, facility, site, campus, utility, or unclear.
• Date third: marketing year and balance-sheet year are not merged.
• Never convert unknown to zero.

Labels used in this register

IT power is stored when the source says the number is load at IT equipment. Facility or site power is stored when the operator’s wording is about the hall or campus without an IT split. Utility power is stored when the wording is tied to the grid supply. Announced capacity with an unclear definition is stored as unclear. Those labels are reading tools. They are not a claim that the underlying physics has been re-measured.

A campus sentence and a building sentence must stay apart even when both use megawatts. EcoDataCenter’s 2025 annual report states that buildings C and D were commissioned and gives a 41 MW figure as of the balance-sheet date. A later campus sentence uses 65 MW. A marketing page speaks of 80 MW available power. Those three sentences are three rows. Adding them would invent a fourth number that no cited page prints.

• IT power — load at IT equipment, when the source says so.
• Facility or site power — operator wording for the hall or campus.
• Utility power — wording tied to the grid supply.
• Announced capacity, definition unclear — MW without a usable split.

Maps have edges

The transmission capacity map is a national indicative layer. Svenska kraftnät’s own framing is that it does not replace the formal connection process and does not show underlying-network capacity. It is useful for asking better questions about a load in Luleå, Gävle or Staffanstorp. It is the wrong artefact to paste into a land brochure as reserved megawatts on a named plot.

Underlying networks — the regional and local wires that actually reach Falun, Falkenberg or a Stockholm cadastral unit — are outside that map by design. A green or amber cell is therefore not a study, not a reservation and not an energized load. Treat the map as a prompt to name the owner and open a connection file. Treat any brochure that converts the map into a single available-power headline as a misread.

What named primary sources show

Svenska kraftnät’s capacity-map page is the primary source for the map’s limits. Cite it when a slide treats a colour as allocated power near Gävle or Staffanstorp. Do not cite it as the import offered to a named plot. That offer, if it exists, is a letter from the network owner and is not reproduced here.

EcoDataCenter’s 2025 annual report is the primary source for the commissioned C and D buildings, the 41 MW balance-sheet sentence, later construction language for E and F, and a later 65 MW campus sentence. The marketing page about 80 MW available power is a separate dated row. DataCenterSweden stores those sentences with their wording and will not add them. EcoDataCenter’s Borlänge work and the autumn 2025 discontinuation at Östersund are company-file facts, not megawatt totals to fold into Falun.

GleSYS’s 2020 Falkenberg press notice records a 3 MW utility figure and heat delivery to Falkenberg Energi from 1 October 2020. A later operator page states 5 MW. Those are two dated rows about one hall, not a Halland spare list. Conapto’s 5 September 2024 opening of Stockholm 4 South, a campus figure of 24 MW together with Stockholm 2 South, and a 4 MW figure on the Stockholm 2 South sheet are stored separately. Meta’s Luleå page and Microsoft’s 2021 Sweden-region materials do not publish facility megawatts that this register can treat as current capacity.

Operator megawatts stay in dated rows

A Swedish campus file often carries more than one megawatt sentence because buildings commission on different dates and marketing uses a different noun. The honest register move is to keep the rows. Conapto’s campus total with Stockholm 2 South and the 4 MW sheet for Stockholm 2 South are an example of two published figures that must not be naively stacked on top of the 24 MW campus sentence. evroc’s Arlandastad notice publishes GPUs and an investment intention and does not publish megawatts; the absence is stored as unknown.

atNorth’s SWE01 Stockholm metro pages describe an operator site in the Stockholm market. SWE04 at Sollefteå / Hamre Långsele is described as a 50 hectare development. Those sentences are location and land facts. They are not a spare-megawatt layer for Västernorrland, and they are not added to Equinix Stockholm halls after the 2 September 2026 acquisition notice. Ownership change is not a capacity sum.

Common misreads

The first misread is to add EcoDataCenter’s 41, 65 and 80 MW sentences. They are different dates and different nouns. The second is to treat GleSYS’s 3 MW and 5 MW Falkenberg figures as a county surplus. They are two dated rows about one operator hall. The third is to treat Conapto’s campus 24 MW and the Stockholm 2 South 4 MW sheet as if they could be added into a new south-Stockholm total without reading the wording.

The fourth is to treat Svenska kraftnät’s map as underlying-network capacity in Falun or Staffanstorp. The fifth is to store Meta Luleå or Microsoft Gävle, Sandviken and Staffanstorp as zero megawatts because the cited pages are silent. Silence is unknown. The sixth is to roll atNorth’s 50 hectare Sollefteå development into a megawatt figure. Hectares are not watts.

What to ask next

Ask which noun and which verb attach to every megawatt in the pack. Ask for the date and the page. Ask whether the number is about IT equipment, a building, a campus, or the utility supply. Ask the network owner for the connection-file classification in the grid-connection note. If two figures look similar, ask whether anyone has already added them.

If the pack is silent — Meta in Luleå, Microsoft’s named municipalities, AWS Europe (Stockholm), evroc at Arlandastad — write unknown and name the gap. Then open the time-to-power note for dates and the electricity-cost note for the bill stack. Capacity is not a price, and it is not a groundbreaking slogan for the next plot.

• What noun and verb sit on this MW figure, and on which date?
• Is this IT, facility, campus, utility, or unclear?
• Have two published sentences already been added in the slide?
• What written owner position exists besides the operator row?

What this does and does not prove

This note proves that Swedish capacity words are a set of states and nouns, and that DataCenterSweden will not add EcoDataCenter’s 41, 65 and 80 MW sentences, will not merge GleSYS’s 2020 and later Falkenberg figures, and will not stack Conapto’s campus and sheet numbers into a new total. It proves that Svenska kraftnät’s map is indicative and silent on underlying networks. It proves that silence on Meta, Microsoft and AWS pages is stored as unknown.

It does not prove how many megawatts are spare in SE1, SE3 or SE4. It does not prove a live national census. It does not prove that a neighbouring plot in Falun, Falkenberg or Staffanstorp can copy an operator row. Those answers remain in the network owner’s file, or they remain unknown until a dated letter exists.