REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, Aug 27, 2025 – Crusoe is expanding its cloud capacity at atNorth’s ICE02 data center in Iceland to handle rising demand from customers in Europe and North America. The upgrade, announced by atNorth and Crusoe, is intended to improve availability and performance for Crusoe Cloud workloads while taking advantage of Iceland’s renewable energy and cool climate.
Crusoe and atNorth’s partnership was announced in December 2023 outlining plans for 33MW of capacity at atNorth’s ICE02 data center. The collaboration involves a 24MW expansion agreement for the campus, a key component of Crusoe’s European strategy.
ICE02 uses low-latency networks and redundant connectivity through multiple undersea fiber-optic cables that link to international markets. The upgrade adds NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems, along with NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA Hopper GPUs, to support generative AI workloads.
The ICE02 data center has also been fitted with Direct Liquid to Chip (DLC) cooling infrastructure, demonstrating the partnership commitment to low carbon operations.
“Crusoe runs the infrastructure for intelligence,” said Chase Lochmiller co-founder and CEO, Crusoe. “Our partnership with atNorth allows us to leverage the abundant geothermal and hydroelectric power in Iceland to build energy-first AI infrastructure so that our customers can run their most demanding AI workloads on Crusoe Cloud.”
“We are delighted with Crusoe’s success in serving its clients via our data centers and are excited to announce this significant development in our ongoing partnership,” says Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, CEO atNorth. “The expansion of our ICE02 site features cutting-edge infrastructure and highly energy-efficient Direct Liquid to Chip (DLC) cooling technology. This aligns with both companies’ commitment to sustainability, and we are proud to support Crusoe on their path to decarbonize their workloads while delivering AI-ready solutions in an environmentally responsible way.”
atNorth acknowledges that the demand for data centers is on an upward trend. These data centers support AI while meeting responsibility goals. Its modular design lets customers scale and reconfigures capacity for high-intensity workloads. Recent work with Nokia and 6G AI Sweden AB shows clients want both technology and lower impact, and it underscores atNorth’s focus on building sustainable data center campuses.
Source: atNorth
About atNorth
atNorth is a Nordic data center services company that offers sustainable, cost-effective, scalable colocation and high-performance computing services trusted by industry-leading organizations. The business acquired the leading high-performance computing (HPC) provider, Gompute, in 2023, enabling a compelling full stack offering tailored to AI and other critical high-performance workloads. With sustainability at its core, atNorth’s data centers run on renewable energy and support circular economy principles. All atNorth sites use innovative design, power efficiency, and smart operations to provide long-term infrastructure and flexible colocation deployments. The custom solutions help businesses calculate, simulate, train, and visualize data workloads in an efficient, cost-optimized way. atNorth is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, and operates seven data centers in strategic locations across the Nordics, with additional sites set to open in Helsinki, Finland, in Q1 2025, and Ballerup, Denmark, in Q2 2025. Its tenth site is under construction in Kouvola, Finland, and its eleventh site will be in Ølgod, Denmark. The business has also secured land for a future mega site in the Sollefteå Municipality in Sweden.
About Crusoe
Founded in 2018, Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company headquartered in Denver, CO, with additional offices in San Francisco. The company designs, builds, and operates modular, AI-optimized data centers branded as Crusoe Cloud, using energy sources such as stranded natural gas, renewables, and carbon-capture projects to reduce environmental impact. Crusoe serves AI and high-performance computing customers that need scalable infrastructure, as well as oil and gas operators aiming to cut flaring and emissions. In 2024, the company reported an estimated $276M in annual revenue.