Data Center
Norway has become one of Europe's most sought-after markets for large-scale investment in the data centre sector. With more than 100 lawyers experienced in data centre matters, and more than 20,000 hours of data centre advisory in 2025 and 2026 alone, Wikborg Rein holds a unique position as Norway's leading adviser in this space.
Wikborg Rein has advised on data centre projects throughout Norway's emergence as a leading destination for digital infrastructure investment over the past 15 years. As the Norwegian law firm with the longest track record in the data centre sector, and as a full-service firm with expertise across all relevant practice areas, we are uniquely positioned to advise developers, operators, institutional investors, lenders, hyperscalers, and technology companies on their most complex and high-value matters in the Nordics.
We have a good understanding of what each party needs at every point in a transaction and help clients structure investments, navigate the Norwegian market, and bring projects online on time and on budget. Wikborg Rein delivers integrated, multidisciplinary advice spanning from real estate, energy, finance and M&A, corporate law, commercial contracts to regulatory matters.
We cover the full data centre lifecycle from site identification, zoning matters and grid connection, through financing, permitting, development, and contracting, to operations and exit. Norway's renewable energy supply, stable infrastructure, and competitive power prices make it one of Europe's most compelling data centre markets, and no firm is better placed to help clients capitalise on that opportunity.
We offer
- Site acquisition and real estate related matters
- Grid connection and power purchase agreements
- Project finance and acquisition finance
- Corporate and M&A
- Permitting and regulatory approvals
- Construction and development contracts
- Colocation and hyperscale leasing
- Hardware procurement and leasing
- Managed platform contracts, customer service contracts and service models (e.g. end-to-end provision agreements, white-label and resell, capacity or consumption contracts)
- Environmental and planning law
- Data protection and cybersecurity regulation
Our experience includes
- Advising Nscale and Aker on all their data centre transactions in Norway to date, as well as regulatory and construction law advice. We also advised Aker/Nscale on its BUSD 4.6 offtake agreement with Microsoft. Nscale's Series C capital raise was the largest single capital raise in Europe, ever
- Advising Skygard and its owners on multiple matters, including the intital establishment and the acquisition of Orange's portfolio in Norway
- Advising Polaris on its recent MUSD 800 high yield bond offering (the largest HY in the Norwegian market, ever)
