Statistics Norway
Norway's national statistics agency.
Statistics Norway's count of 677 data-centre jobs in 2024 sits at the centre of a Storting proposal filed on 5 October 2026, set against 11,000 jobs the filing says were promised in 2021.
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Statistics Norway counted 677 people employed in Norwegian data centres in 2024, a figure now in the Storting's data-centre debate. A proposal filed on 5 October 2026 sets that count against the 11,000 jobs it says were promised in 2021, while the grid operator holds about 12 GW of data-centre bookings.
The jobs figure matters because Norway's data centres draw on a grid that runs almost wholly on hydropower: they used 3.14 TWh in 2025, by the proposal's count. Its authors want new grid allocations to the sector paused pending a national policy.
Known in Norwegian as Statistisk sentralbyrå, Statistics Norway was founded in 1876 and is Norway's central office for official statistics, publishing about 1,000 releases a year. It falls under the Ministry of Finance but works independently of it.
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