Sovereign AI
Sovereign programme record · Norway · 2025–2027
Norway: programme funding and hardware
Norway: Sigma2/NRIS National Research Infrastructure + LUMI-AI Participation
The reconciliation
This record has no dollar amount for these funding stages. Programme details and source amounts appear below.
Operating compute / delivered hardware. Reported operational or delivered: 448 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip (physical hardware).
Funding components
| Component | Kind | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Olivia contract (NOK225M) | Government | — |
| Norway’s LUMI-AI hardware commitment (NOK215M) | Government | — |
| Research Council recommendation for five years of supercomputing investment (NOK3.4B) | Government | — |
Hardware on record
| Model | Count | Status | Organisation / role |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip | 448 | Operational | Sigma2 (Olivia, government) |
Physical hardware: Whole Olivia system after the February 2026 expansion to 448 GH200 GPUs. Primary source · 2026-03-02 | |||
Empanelled partners · 2
| Partner | Accelerators | Model | Stage | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sigma2 AS | 448 | NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip | Deployed | Primary source · 2026-03-02 |
Physical hardware: Whole Olivia system after the February 2026 expansion to 448 GH200 GPUs. Primary source · 2026-03-02 Operates Olivia at Lefdal Mine Datacenter and leads Norway’s participation in LUMI-AI. The system began with 304 GH200 GPUs in 2025 and expanded to 448 in February 2026. | ||||
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) | — | — | Commissioned | Primary source · 2025-11-13 |
Built Olivia’s Cray EX system with Slingshot networking and ClusterStor storage under the NOK225M contract.
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External dependence
NVIDIA hardware: Medium · US technology: Medium. These are editorial assessments based on the programme’s procurement disclosures.
Named partners: Sigma2 AS, HPE, Norwegian Research Council, CSC (Finland), Universities of Bergen, Oslo, Tromso, NTNU.
Sigma2 operates Olivia at Lefdal Mine Datacenter and represents Norway in the LUMI-AI consortium. Olivia’s NOK225M contract and Norway’s NOK215M hardware commitment to LUMI-AI cover separate procurements.
Data-quality caveats on this record · 5
- In January 2025, the Research Council recommended NOK3.4B of supercomputing investment over five years.
- In October 2025, Sigma2 reported a proposed NOK380M allocation over two years in the 2026 budget. This would supplement annual baseline funding of NOK50M and NOK20.7M for work with the National Library on Norwegian and Sami language models.
- Olivia’s NOK225M award records the contract value without payment figures.
- Olivia entered research use in 2025 with 304 GH200 GPUs. Sigma2’s documentation dates the addition of 144 GPUs to February 2026, bringing the system to 448.
- Norway’s NOK215M LUMI-AI contribution purchases a share of hardware hosted in Finland. A separate NOK30M Research Council contribution supports the Norwegian AI Factory, with matching EuroHPC funding.
The evidence trail
11 cited sources- Sigma2’s account of Olivia’s procurement and installation at Lefdal Mine Datacenter. — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07
- Sigma2’s current hardware specification and February 2026 expansion from 304 to 448 GH200 GPUs. — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-08
- HPE’s November 2025 account of Olivia’s delivery and system configuration. — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-08
- Sigma2’s 17 January 2025 summary of the Research Council’s NOK3.4B investment recommendation. — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
- Sigma2’s September 2024 announcement of research-infrastructure and language-model funding. — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
- Sigma2’s February 2024 account of the national supercomputer tender and planned service. — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
- Sigma2’s 2024 annual report, including the Olivia contract and LUMI-AI participation. — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
- Sigma2’s procurement record for the NOK225M Olivia contract awarded to HPE in 2024. — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
- Sigma2’s 12 December 2024 LUMI-AI announcement: NOK215M for hardware and NOK30M for national AI Factory services. — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
- Sigma2’s 16 October 2025 account of proposed two-year funding and Olivia’s existing research operation. — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
- Sigma2’s 2 March 2026 announcement of Olivia’s expansion to 448 GPUs. — Primary source · accessed 2026-09-08
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