{"id":246915,"date":"2026-11-09T10:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/norway-halts-power-connections-for-new-data-centers"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:14:48","slug":"norway-halts-power-connections-for-new-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/norway-halts-power-connections-for-new-data-centers","title":{"rendered":"Norway Halts Power Connections for New Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Norway will suspend further reservation of electricity connections for data centers while the country figures out how to handle the burden they place on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>The measures introduced involve a temporary halt in new connection reservations, system operator Statnett AS said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnett.no\/om-statnett\/nyheter-og-pressemeldinger\/nyhetsarkiv-2026\/midlertidige-tiltak-for-fortsatt-forsvarlig-systemdrift\/\" title=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">statement<\/a> Monday. The halt is expected to be lifted no later than Aug. 1, 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway will suspend further reservation of electricity connections for data centers while the country figures out how to handle the burden they place on the grid. The measures introduced involve a temporary halt in new connection reservations, system operator Statnett AS said in a statement Monday. The halt is expected to be lifted no later [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}