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Polar Launches Polar Protect to Drive Operational Excellence Across AI Data Centers

LONDON, UK 08 September 2026 – Polar Data Centers today announced the launch of Polar Protect, a new operational framework designed to protect the long-term performance of its growing portfolio of AI-ready data centers.As hyperscale, AI and HPC demand continue to accelerate, operational excellence is becoming as important as bringing new capacity online. Success means not only delivering infrastructure quickly, but ensuring facilities perform safely, securely, reliably and sustainably throughout

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Polar Announces DRA02 Expansion at Flagship AI-Ready Data Center Campus in Norway

LONDON – 23 July 2026 – Polar Data Centers (“Polar”), a leading European developer, owner and operator of AI-ready data center infrastructure, today announced DRA02, a new 40MW AI-ready data center at its flagship campus in Drangedal, Norway.DRA02 marks the next phase of Polar’s long-term strategy to develop world-class AI infrastructure across Europe and strengthens its position as a leading provider of sustainable, high-performance digital infrastructure. Building on the success of DRA01, the

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Can Chiller-Less AI Data Centers be achieved in the Nordics?

The industry’s response to ‘warm-water’ GPU cooling envelopes (S45, up to ~45 °C inlet temperatures) has marked a significant shift in data centre thermal design philosophy, particularly for AI data centers. Here's our technical assessment of the AI data centre landscape and our perspective on whether chiller-less data centers are achievable. Our opinion is that until end-user requirements, GPU OEM operating temperatures, and site-specific ambient conditions align to enable full-year free coolin

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Polar Announces Landmark €800 Million Nordic Bond Issue to Accelerate European AI Infrastructure Expansion

LONDON – 1 June 2026 – Polar Data Centres ("Polar"), a leading European developer, owner and operator of AI-ready data centre infrastructure, today announced the successful placement of an €800 million senior secured bond issuance, marking the largest transaction of its kind in the Nordic bond market. The financing represents a major milestone in Polar's growth strategy. It provides substantial capital to support the continued expansion of its European platform of data centres designed for artif

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Polar Podcast Episode 4

In this latest episode Jon Cermak Director of Safety, Security & Compliance at Polar, shares insights into the challenges of delivering infrastructure at speed while maintaining the highest standards of governance, security, and operational excellence. The conversation explores Polar’s approach to safety, security and compliance across rapidly expanding AI-ready developments, including the importance of proactive risk management, operational resilience, and building a culture focused on collabor

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Polar Announces new AI-Ready Data Center development in Herøya, Norway

London, UK - May 12th, 2026Polar Data Centers today announced the latest phase of its AI-ready data center developments in Norway. The project is located on the Heroya Industrial Park and will be known as HER01. This deepens the company’s commitment to developing highly sustainable, scalable infrastructure for next-generation AI and high-performance computing workloads.Located in the town of Porsgrunn, the site is approximately 130km from Oslo, the Herøya site forms part of Polar’s growing Norwe

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Why Norway is Becoming Europe’s Most Strategic Data Centre Market

The European data centre market is being reshaped by one force above all others: Artificial Intelligence.Demand for AI infrastructure is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. According to Synergy Research Group (2025), hyperscale data centre capacity has more than doubled in the past five years, with AI and cloud workloads driving the majority of that growth.But AI isn’t just increasing demand. It’s fundamentally changing what infrastructure needs to look like and where it can be built.Power de

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The Impact of ESG Trends on the Data Centre Market

In 2026, ESG priorities are shifting decisively from long term ambition to practical delivery as organisations confront the real financial, operational and regulatory pressures underpinning their sustainability commitments. Rising costs, limited grid capacity and geopolitical volatility are forcing companies to recalibrate net zero strategies and pair decarbonisation with climate adaptation measures. At the same time, investors continue to demand high quality, data driven sustainability disclosu

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Polar Data Centres and Vertiv Win Major Industry Award for AI-Ready Data Centre

Polar Data Centers (Polar) are proud to announce that their collaboration with Vertiv has been recognised at the recent Data Centre World Awards 2026 in London, where they received the award for “Most Successfully Delivered Data Centre.”The award recognises the successful delivery of DRA01, our 12MW modular data centre purpose-built for AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and the most demanding advanced workloads.Setting the standard for AI infrastructureDRA01 has been engineered from the grou