After UK exit, OpenAI scraps Norway expansion as it leans on Microsoft partnership for compute
Days after abandoning its UK Stargate project, OpenAI has pulled out of a Norwegian data centre agreement, leaning harder on its Microsoft partnership as spending discipline tightens ahead of a possible IPO. While the arrangement has now fallen apart, Microsoft is stepping in to take the capacity OpenAI had been in discussions to rent.
Days after abandoning its UK Stargate project, OpenAI has pulled out of a Norwegian data centre agreement, leaning harder on its Microsoft partnership as spending discipline tightens ahead of a possible IPO. While the arrangement has now fallen apart, Microsoft is stepping in to take the capacity OpenAI had been in discussions to rent.
