Dok 8:6 S

Four Storting members, Marie Sneve Martinussen, Bjørnar Moxnes, Geir Jørgensen and Terje Kollbotn, tabled Dok 8:6 S as a private members' proposal on 5 October 2026. Its central request is that the government stop committing power and grid capacity to data centres until Norway has a new policy for the sector. Centres serving critical public functions would be exempt.

Seven requests in all sit in the text. The others are a national concession scheme covering data centres and other heavy power users; parliamentary review, on the petroleum-investment model, of anything drawing 25 MW or more before allocation is final; an assessment of whether the Security Act applies to data centres; and a survey of Norwegian data held under foreign jurisdiction, including exposure to the US CLOUD Act.

The argument sets bookings against output. By October 2026, the proposers state, Statnett held about 12 GW booked or queued across roughly 120 projects, while the sector consumed 3.14 TWh in 2025 and employed 677 people in 2024. Run at NVE's 70% utilisation assumption, that queue would draw about 70 TWh a year. Committee review and a plenary vote must come before it binds anyone. In the same week Brazil auctioned its scarce grid connections instead.