No paid figure stated in the government’s documents
Norway's 2026 budget created an appropriation for Sigma2 AS, chapter 273 item 70 'Infrastruktur for tungregning' (NOK 160 720 000, voted on 18 December 2025), but no document read records a 2026 payment under it, and DFØ's state-accounts site did not respond. Two 2025 component lines carry payments: Sikt, the state agency that owns Sigma2, reports transferring to Sigma2 AS the NOK 20 million earmarked for compute to train the National Library's language models and the NOK 20.2 million one-off grant for research-data storage. Norway's NOK 215 million LUMI-AI hardware share appears only in Sigma2's own announcement.
Ministry of Education and Research, chapter 273 (Sikt) item 70: Infrastructure for high-performance computing, transferable
A part of the programme. New in 2026, the item carries the state budget's money for Sigma2 AS, the wholly state-owned company (owned through Sikt) that runs Norway's national supercomputers and storage. Its 2026 appropriation holds Sigma2's NOK 50 million base grant (moved from the Research Council's chapter 285 item 71), NOK 20.72 million of compute for the National Library's Norwegian and Sami language models (moved from Sikt's item 50), and the first NOK 90 million of Step 1 of a national HPC infrastructure built on Sigma2. It is a component of the programme: Step 1's other NOK 200 million sits in the Research Council's 2026 commitment frame (kept among the line's figures), Sigma2's 2025 base grant ran through the Council's chapter 285 item 71 and its two 2025 earmarks through Sikt's item 50 (component lines), and the LUMI-AI hardware share has no identified budget line.
Voted by parliament: the 161 million NOK the Storting appropriated for 2026 on the Sikt chapter’s high-performance computing item for Sigma2 AS, January 2026 to December 2026. Printed as “160 720 000”. About $16M at the reference rate of 18 Dec 2025. På statsbudsjettet for 2026 bevilges under: […] 273 Kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør – Sikt 50 Virksomhetskostnader 225 839 000 70 Infrastruktur for tungregning, kan overføres 160 720 000 (In the central government budget for 2026 the following are appropriated: […] 273 Sikt, the knowledge sector's service provider: 50 Operating costs 225 839 000; 70 Infrastructure for high-performance computing, transferable, 160 720 000)
Stortinget, Stortingsvedtak 245: Statsbudsjettet 2026 (kapitler fordelt til utdannings- og forskningskomiteen), Prop. 1 S (2025-2026), Innst. 12 S (2025-2026), Vedtak 245, 'På statsbudsjettet for 2026 bevilges under:', kap. 273, post 70. The Storting's case record 104905 dates the decision ('Debatt og vedtak') 18 December 2025, 'Vedtak i samsvar med innstillingen' (receipt no/dl-11/stortinget-sak-104905.xml); the committee's recommendation, Innst. 12 S (2025–2026) signed 11 December 2025, prints the same 160 720 000 (PDF p. 71, receipt no/dl-03/inns-202526-012s.pdf).
Announced: 380 million NOK, 26 Sep 2025. Printed as “380 mill. kroner”. The government's total for Step 1 (2026–2027) of a national HPC infrastructure built on Sigma2: NOK 90 million on this item in 2026, to be proposed again for 2027, plus NOK 200 million within the Research Council's 2026 commitment frame on chapter 285 item 71. A proposal spanning two items and two years, not an appropriation of this item. For ei første fase (2026–2027), foreslår regjeringa ei løyving på totalt 380 mill. kroner. Av desse blir 90 mill. kroner foreslått løyvde i 2026. Denne løyvinga vil bli foreslått vidareført i 2027-budsjettet. I tillegg blir 200 mill. kroner foreslått dekka innanfor tilsegnsramma for 2026-budsjettet på kap. 285, post 71, der INFRASTRUKTUR-ordninga blir finansiert. (For a first phase (2026–2027) the government proposes an appropriation totalling NOK 380 million. Of this, NOK 90 million is proposed for 2026; this appropriation will be proposed again in the 2027 budget. In addition, NOK 200 million is proposed to be covered within the 2026 commitment frame on chapter 285, item 71, which funds the INFRASTRUKTUR scheme.)
Kunnskapsdepartementet (Ministry of Education and Research), Prop. 1 S (2025–2026) Kunnskapsdepartementet: Proposisjon til Stortinget (forslag til stortingsvedtak) for budsjettåret 2026, Kap. 273, post 70, 'Budsjettforslag for 2026' (printed p. 216; PDF p. 218). The proposition is dated 26 September 2025 (cabinet approval); the Storting's case record 104905 dates its proposal step 15 October 2025.
Committed: 200 million NOK, 19 Dec 2025. Printed as “200 000 000 kroner”. Granted to Sigma2's high-performance computing work within the Research Council's 2026 commitment frame on chapter 285 item 71 (the INFRASTRUKTUR scheme), to be paid out in 2027 and used for item 70's purpose. A commitment on another chapter, not money appropriated on this item. I tillegg er 200 000 000 kroner tildelt til Sigma2s arbeid med tungregning innenfor tilsagnsrammen for 2026 på kap. 285, post 71, der INFRASTRUKTUR-ordningen i Forskningsrådet finansieres. Disse midlene blir utbetalt i 2027. (In addition, NOK 200,000,000 is granted to Sigma2's high-performance computing work within the 2026 commitment frame on chapter 285, item 71, which funds the Research Council's INFRASTRUKTUR scheme. These funds will be paid out in 2027.)
Kunnskapsdepartementet (Ministry of Education and Research), Tildelingsbrev 2026 til Sikt – Kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør (ref. 25/4963), Section 3.1.2 'Nærmere om tildelingen på post 70' (p. 5), 19 Dec 2025
Budget estimate: 165 million NOK, 25 Sep 2026. Printed as “164 817”. Proposed for 2027 in the 2027 budget bill: NOK 93.3 million to continue the national infrastructure, NOK 50 million for Sigma2's base grant and NOK 21.5 million of compute for the National Library's language models (printed p. 179). The same table prints the 2026 balanced budget as 160 720 and leaves 'Rekneskap 2025' empty for this item, which did not exist in 2025. Kap. 273 Kunnskapssektorens tenesteleverandør – Sikt (i 1 000 kroner) Rekneskap Saldert Forslag Post Nemning 2025 budsjett 2026 2027 […] 70 Infrastruktur for tungrekning, kan overførast 160 720 164 817 (Chapter 273 Sikt (NOK thousand); columns: accounts 2025, balanced budget 2026, proposal 2027 […] 70 Infrastructure for high-performance computing, transferable: (no 2025 figure), 160 720, 164 817)
Kunnskapsdepartementet (Ministry of Education and Research), Prop. 1 S (2026–2027) Kunnskapsdepartementet: Proposisjon til Stortinget (forslag til stortingsvedtak) for budsjettåret 2027, Kap. 273 table, row 'Post 70 Infrastruktur for tungrekning, kan overførast' (printed p. 177; PDF p. 179); breakdown under 'Budsjettforslag for 2027' (printed p. 179; PDF p. 181), 25 Sep 2026
2025 earmark in the Ministry of Education and Research's allocation to Sikt (chapter 273 item 50): compute for training the National Library's language models, to be granted to Sigma2 AS
A part of the programme. Compute that Sigma2 AS delivers to the National Library's Norwegian and Sami language-model work, earmarked inside Sikt's 2025 operating appropriation; from 2026 the earmark (NOK 20.72 million) sits in the primary line. Sikt's annual report says the money was transferred to Sigma2 AS, and no government document read reports how Sigma2 spent it, so the transfer is recorded as a payment to Sigma2 AS.
In a budget estimate: the 20 million NOK earmarked in Sikt’s 2025 allocation for compute to train the National Library’s language models, January 2025 to December 2025. Printed as “20 000 000 kroner”. About $2M at the reference rate of 19 Dec 2024. Bevilgningen er økt med 20 000 000 kroner for å finansiere regnekraft til trening av språkmodeller hos Nasjonalbiblioteket. Midlene skal tildeles Sigma2 som skal levere denne regnekraften. (The appropriation is increased by NOK 20,000,000 to fund compute for training language models at the National Library. The funds are to be granted to Sigma2, which is to deliver this compute.)
Kunnskapsdepartementet (Ministry of Education and Research), Tildelingsbrev 2025 til Sikt – Kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør (ref. 24/5486), Section 3.1 'Tildeling over kap. 273, post 50' (p. 5), 19 Dec 2024
Paid out: 20 million NOK by 31 Dec 2025. Printed as “20 millioner kroner”. 12 of the budget’s 12 months had passed. About $2M at the reference rate of 31 Dec 2025. Sikt fikk tildelt 20 millioner kroner til Sigma2 AS for å finansiere regnekraft til trening av språkmodeller hos Nasjonalbiblioteket. Midlene er overført til Sigma2, Sigma2s aktiviteter i 2025 er omtalt i kapittel 3.2.6, side 38. (Sikt was allocated NOK 20 million for Sigma2 AS to fund compute for training language models at the National Library. The funds have been transferred to Sigma2; Sigma2's activities in 2025 are described in chapter 3.2.6, page 38.)
Sikt – Kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør (agency under the Ministry of Education and Research), Sikt årsrapport 2025, Section 3.4 'Rapportering på øremerkede tildelinger', Tabell 2 'Øremerkede tildelinger 2025', under 'Oppdrag gitt i tildelingsbrev 2025, 19.12.2024', row 'Finansiering av regnekraft til trening av språkmodeller hos Nasjonalbiblioteket (Sigma2 AS)' (p. 46). Date: publication on Kudos; the report prints no signing date., 17 Jun 2026
One-off 2025 grant for Sigma2 AS to increase national capacity to store and secure research data, allocated to Sikt (chapter 273 item 50, supplementary allocation letter no. 3)
A part of the programme. A one-off grant from the 2025 revised budget (Prop. 146 S and Innst. 540 S (2024–2025)) for Sigma2's national research-data archive (NIRD, per Sikt's report, p. 38), passed to Sigma2 AS through Sikt. Storage is part of the national e-infrastructure the programme names, though not compute. Recorded as a payment to Sigma2 AS on the same reasoning as the language-model line.
In a budget estimate: the 20.2 million NOK one-off 2025 grant for Sigma2’s national research-data storage, January 2025 to December 2025. Printed as “20 238 000 kroner”. About $2M at the reference rate of 11 Aug 2025. Stortinget har vedtatt en engangsbevilgning til Sigma2 AS for å øke nasjonal kapasitet til lagring og sikring av data som er viktig for norsk forskning. 2. Beløp og utbetaling Kunnskapsdepartementet tildeler med dette 20 238 000 kroner til Sikt. (The Storting has adopted a one-off appropriation to Sigma2 AS to increase national capacity to store and secure data important to Norwegian research. 2. Amount and payment: the Ministry of Education and Research hereby allocates NOK 20,238,000 to Sikt.)
Kunnskapsdepartementet (Ministry of Education and Research), Supplerende tildelingsbrev nr. 3 til Sikt – Kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør, kap. 273, post 50 om tilleggsbevilgninger og omprioriteringer i statsbudsjettet for 2025 (ref. 24/5486, 11 August 2025), Letter no. 3 in the Kudos file 'Sikt 2025 – tillegg nr. 1, 2 og 3', sections 1 and 2 (PDF p. 7)
Paid out: 20.2 million NOK by 31 Dec 2025. Printed as “20,2 millioner”. 12 of the budget’s 12 months had passed. About $2M at the reference rate of 31 Dec 2025. Sikt fikk tildelt 20,2 millioner til Sigma2 AS for å øke nasjonal kapasitet til lagring og sikring av data som er viktig for norsk forskning. Midlene er overført til Sigma2, Sigma2s aktiviteter i 2025 er omtalt i kapittel 3.2.6 side 38. (Sikt was allocated 20.2 million for Sigma2 AS to increase national capacity to store and secure data important to Norwegian research. The funds have been transferred to Sigma2; Sigma2's activities in 2025 are described in chapter 3.2.6, page 38.)
Sikt – Kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør (agency under the Ministry of Education and Research), Sikt årsrapport 2025, Section 3.4, Tabell 2 'Øremerkede tildelinger 2025', under 'Oppdrag gitt i supplerende tildelingsbrev nr. 3, 11.08.2025', row 'Tildeling til Sigma2 AS for økt nasjonal kapasitet til lagring og sikring av data' (p. 46). The report rounds the 20 238 000 allocated to '20,2 millioner'; see the cash-flow figure below., 17 Jun 2026
Paid out: 40.2 million NOK, 31 Dec 2025. Printed as “40 238”. Sikt's 2025 cash-flow statement: payments and transfers to other entities, 40 238 thousand (2024: 0). The statement names no recipient. The figure equals the two 2025 Sigma2 allocations together (NOK 20 000 000 for language-model compute and NOK 20 238 000 for storage), both of which Table 2 reports as transferred to Sigma2; it covers both component lines, and the paid figure above keeps Table 2's rounded '20,2 millioner'. Kontantstrømoppstilling for nettobudsjetterte virksomheter (direkte modell) […] utbetalinger og overføringer til andre virksomheter 40 238 0 0 KS.14B (Cash-flow statement for net-budgeted agencies (direct method) […] payments and transfers to other entities: 40 238 (31.12.2025); 0 (31.12.2024); 0 (budget 2026), NOK thousand)
Sikt – Kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør (agency under the Ministry of Education and Research), Sikt årsrapport 2025, Kontantstrømoppstilling for nettobudsjetterte virksomheter (direkte modell), Cash-flow statement, row 'utbetalinger og overføringer til andre virksomheter' (reference KS.14B), columns 31.12.2025 and 31.12.2024 (p. 71); units per p. 72: 'Alle regnskapstall er oppgitt i 1 000 kr dersom ikke annet er særskilt opplyst.', 17 Jun 2026
Norway's investment in LUMI-AI hardware through Sigma2 AS (budget line not identified)
A part of the programme. Norway's share of LUMI-AI, the supercomputer of the LUMI AI Factory consortium that Finland leads and CSC hosts in Kajaani. The only source is Sigma2 AS's own announcement of 12 December 2024 (Sigma2 is wholly owned by Sikt, a state agency); no budget document read names the NOK 215 million, its budget line or a payment, so the line has no budget and both announced figures are kept among the line's figures.
Announced: 215 million NOK, 12 Dec 2024. Printed as “215 million NOK”. Norway's announced investment in LUMI-AI hardware, through Sigma2. No period, budget line or payment is stated. Through Sigma2, Norway will invest 215 million NOK in the LUMI-AI hardware to ensure Norwegian researchers get sufficient resources to build upon the success of participating in the current LUMI supercomputer
Sigma2 AS (wholly owned by Sikt, a state agency under the Ministry of Education and Research), A new chapter with LUMI-AI, Section 'Norway’s Strategic Investment', first sentence, 12 Dec 2024
Announced: 30 million NOK, 12 Dec 2024. Printed as “30 million NOK”. The Research Council's announced funding for the Norwegian part of the AI Factory, which the announcement says the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking doubles through Horizon Europe. The Council's 2025 report says only that the AI Factory is part-funded through the Council, with no amount. An additional 30 million NOK will be funded by the Norwegian Research Council to establish the Norwegian national part of the AI Factory
Sigma2 AS (wholly owned by Sikt, a state agency under the Ministry of Education and Research), A new chapter with LUMI-AI, Section 'Norway’s Strategic Investment', second sentence, 12 Dec 2024
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Stortinget (stortinget.no and data.stortinget.no): budget decisions and committee recommendation: Stortingsvedtak 245 on the 2026 budget for the education and research committee's chapters (adopted 18 December 2025); Innst. 12 S (2025–2026), signed 11 December 2025; case 104905 in the Storting's open data. Chapter 273 item 70 'Infrastruktur for tungregning, kan overføres' appropriated at NOK 160 720 000 for 2026, as the committee recommended. No outturn. Stortinget (stortinget.no and data.stortinget.no): budget decisions and committee recommendation, 2 Nov 2026
Stortinget open data (data.stortinget.no): parliamentary questions: Written questions, oral question-time questions and interpellations for sessions 2024–2025, 2025–2026 and 2026–2027 (8 654 items), question texts searched (not read in full) for Sigma2, tungregning/tungrekning, superdatamaskin, LUMI, regnekraft/reknekraft, EuroHPC, KI-fabrikk, Olivia and datasenter. No question on Sigma2, LUMI-AI or the national HPC infrastructure. 'LUMI' and 'Olivia' matched only inside other words (aluminium, Bolivia); 'datasenter' matched questions on commercial data centres (power, siting, Eksfin's financing of Nscale's data centre near Narvik), none on the programme. Stortinget open data (data.stortinget.no): parliamentary questions, 2 Nov 2026
Kudos, DFØ's archive of government documents (kudos.dfo.no): Prop. 1 S (2025–2026) and Prop. 1 S (2026–2027) for the Ministry of Education and Research; the ministry's allocation letters to Sikt for 2025 (19 December 2024, with supplementary letters 1–3 of 2025) and 2026 (19 December 2025, with supplementary letters 1–3 of 2026); Sikt's annual report and accounts for 2025 (published 17 June 2026). 2026 bill: Step 1 of NOK 380 million for 2026–2027 (90 million on item 70 in 2026, 200 million in the Research Council's 2026 commitment frame). 2026 letter: 160 720 000 on item 70, to be paid to Sikt in one instalment in January; the 200 million to be paid in 2027. 2026 supplementary letters change items 50 and 201.21 only. 2027 bill: 164 817 thousand proposed, no 2025 accounts for the new item. 2025 letters: 20 000 000 for language-model compute and 20 238 000 for storage, both for Sigma2. Sikt's 2025 report: both transferred to Sigma2; 40 238 thousand of transfers to other entities. No 2026 outturn for item 70. Kudos, DFØ's archive of government documents (kudos.dfo.no), 2 Nov 2026
Research Council of Norway (forskningsradet.no): Årsrapport 2025, departementsvise rapporter (30 April 2026), Ministry of Education and Research section. The 2025 commitment frame on chapter 285 item 71 'inkluderer også 50 mill. kroner til Sigma2 AS' (no payment to Sigma2 itemised); the Council's pre-project recommended a substantial five-year HPC investment, after which the 2026 budget proposed 380 million over two years; the AI Factory is 'delfinanisert gjennom Forskningsrådet', with no amount. No LUMI-AI figure. Research Council of Norway (forskningsradet.no), 2 Nov 2026
Sigma2 AS (sigma2.no): Announcement 'A new chapter with LUMI-AI' (12 December 2024); Sigma2 Årsrapport 2025 (PDF of 7 April 2026; 50.3 MB, pages 3, 9, 10, 21 and 23 kept as text with its SHA-256). NOK 215 million for LUMI-AI hardware through Sigma2 and NOK 30 million from the Research Council for the Norwegian AI Factory part; NOK 20.2 million for data storage proposed in the 2025 revised budget; Olivia's NOK 225 million price tag. No payment figures. Sigma2 AS (sigma2.no), 2 Nov 2026
DFØ central government accounts (statsregnskapet.dfo.no) and dfo.no: Central government accounts for 2026, chapter 273 item 70. Unreachable: statsregnskapet.dfo.no timed out over HTTPS and HTTP (25-second limits; tried twice during the day); www.dfo.no answered with a Cloudflare challenge, which was not bypassed. DFØ central government accounts (statsregnskapet.dfo.no) and dfo.no, 2 Nov 2026
Government and budget portals (regjeringen.no, statsbudsjettet.no): Budget propositions and allocation letters for 2025–2027 and the central government accounts. Both answered with a Cloudflare challenge, which was not bypassed; the propositions and letters were read from Kudos instead. Government and budget portals (regjeringen.no, statsbudsjettet.no), 2 Nov 2026
Riksrevisjonen (riksrevisjonen.no) site search: Searches for 'Sigma2' and 'tungregning' across the audit office's reports (to November 2026). No results. Riksrevisjonen (riksrevisjonen.no) site search, 2 Nov 2026
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (read for the EuroHPC row): EuroHPC JU final annual accounts 2025 and consolidated annual activity report 2025. Participating states' contributions are not itemised by country; Norway appears only in grant statistics and the Governing Board list. No Norwegian LUMI-AI payment. EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (read for the EuroHPC row), 2 Nov 2026
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No document read records a 2026 payment under chapter 273 item 70. The allocation letter schedules the item's money for payment to Sikt in one instalment in January 2026; that payment, Sikt's transfer to Sigma2 AS and Sigma2's use of the money are unverified. DFØ's state-accounts site timed out and www.dfo.no answered with a Cloudflare challenge.
Norway's NOK 215 million LUMI-AI hardware share: its budget line, any payment and the recipient are unverified. No government budget document read names it, and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking's 2025 accounts do not itemise participating states' contributions by country.
Olivia's NOK 225 million price tag (Sigma2 annual report 2025, p. 23) has no government budget line or payment record in the documents read; how it was funded is unverified.
The two 2025 transfers to Sigma2 AS are recorded as payments to a named recipient because no government document read reports Sigma2's own spending of the money; if such a report appears, they would be releases to an implementing unit and the component lines would lose their paid figures.
Sigma2 AS's statutory 2025 accounts (grants received and their use) were not read.
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