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CoreWeave Vennesla (Bulk N01)
Also known as CoreWeave Norway; Bulk N01 AI deployment
Operated by CoreWeave at Bulk N01 Campus (Vennesla) .
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Measured performance
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrator | - CoreWeave deploys and runs the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 cluster at Bulk N01 | CoreWeave | - | Reported | bulkinfrastructure.comepoch.ai |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Accelerators Arm CPU + CUDA GPU · TSMC 4NP NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 cluster | NVIDIA | - | Reported | bulkinfrastructure.com |
| Interconnect | - NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking | NVIDIA | - | Reported | bulkinfrastructure.com |
| Power | - Bulk Infrastructure owns the N01 campus with 400 MW secured and 100 percent hydropower via direct redundant connections | Bulk Infrastructure | - | Reported | bulkinfrastructure.com |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
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| Facility power | 400 MW | 2025-03 | Operator stated | Bulk: 400 MW secured at the whole N01 campus, potential 1 GW; not the CoreWeave building alone | bulkinfrastructure.com |
| IT power | 42 MW | 2026-08 | Third-party estimate | Epoch AI assumes the whole 42 MW Bulk facility is leased to CoreWeave | epoch.ai |
How it is powered
| Source | Provider | MW | Status | As of | Basis | Note | Source link |
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| Hydro | Bulk Infrastructure | 400 | contracted | 2025-03 | Operator stated | 100 percent renewable hydropower through direct redundant connections to multiple hydropower stations; 400 MW secured at the whole campus | bulkinfrastructure.com |
How AI campuses are powered: capacities are what the operator, utility or filing states, not what has been delivered.
The read
CoreWeave's NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 cluster with Quantum-2 InfiniBand at Bulk Infrastructure's N01 data center campus in Vennesla, outside Kristiansand, Norway, announced on 14 March 2025 and expected to be operational by summer 2025. Bulk says it has secured 400 MW at the campus, expandable to 1 GW, on hydropower through direct redundant connections; the CoreWeave deployment is one building inside that campus. Epoch AI's imagery review (updated August 2026) finds Building 1 operational at Øvrebø, assumes the whole 42 MW facility Bulk referred to is leased to CoreWeave, and lists OpenAI as a speculative user. Epoch estimates about 20,100 B200 chips, but Bulk names GB200 NVL72, so no accelerator count is entered here. Cleared land to the south west may hold further halls; Epoch notes that is not confirmed for CoreWeave.
Timeline
- 2025-03-14 Announced source
Site & facility
Bulk N01 Campus (Vennesla)
- Location
- Vennesla, Norway
- Substation
- 400 MW
Change history
- 2026-10-17 Added CoreWeave Vennesla (Bulk N01) (CoreWeave)
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| bulkinfrastructure.com | names system and part | NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 |
| epoch.ai | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-18 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
Inside a node
Why accelerators exist, what the memory hierarchy costs, and how the CPU and accelerator merged onto one package.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.