Data 2026-07

Sovereign AI

Announced commitments against government budgets and reported disbursements, by country.

Sovereign programme record · Norway · 2025–2027

Norway: Sigma2/NRIS National Research Infrastructure + LUMI-AI Participation: $317M announced · 6.6% of the government-only floor disbursed

Every figure below derives from the same record the dashboard reads — this page is the programme as a citable object: the reconciliation with its denominator stated, the decomposition with its residual, and the dated evidence behind each claim.

Announced~$317M
Government-only floor$317M
Committed—
No commitment figure on record.
Disbursed~$21M

The reconciliation. Four figures on one dollar scale, each bar a share of the largest. The reality ratio above divides disbursed by the government-only floor ($317M), and the field it divides by is stated so the division is reproducible. A hatched track is an absent figure carried with its reason — a government that does not publish disbursement is a finding, not a zero. Tildes mark estimated figures.

Pipeline stage: Appropriated (high confidence) — 7% of announced disbursed. The stage is a Scrutica derivation (tier 4), computed from the figures above, never asserted by the source.

What the announced figure is made of

Component	Kind	Amount
Olivia supercomputer (NOK 225M)	Government	$23M
LUMI-AI participation (NOK 215M)	Government	$22M
NOK 3.4B total national plan (planning figure)	Government	$317M

The residualThe amount-bearing components sum to $361M against the $317M headline — a $44M excess over the headline. The decomposition is published as the record carries it; the residual is stated rather than smoothed.

Hardware on record

Model	Count	Status	Owner
NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip	448	operational	Sigma2 (Olivia, government)

Empanelled partners · 2

Partner	GPUs	Model	Stage	Award
Sigma2 AS	304	NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip (GH200) — expanding to 448 in 2026	deployed	Research database · 2025-11-13
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)	—	—	commissioned	Research database · 2025-11-13

External dependence

NVIDIA hardware: medium · TSMC fabrication: high · US technology: medium · BIS jurisdiction reach: low. Dependence levels are Scrutica classifications (tier 4) from the programme’s own disclosures — which hardware it buys, where it fabricates, and whose export jurisdiction its supply chain crosses.

Named partners: Sigma2 AS, HPE, Norwegian Research Council, CSC (Finland), Universities of Bergen, Oslo, Tromso, NTNU.

Olivia (NOK 225M, HPE) delivered November 2025 at Lefdal Mine Datacenter. LUMI-AI participation NOK 215M. NOK 3.4B is total planning figure. NBIM Oil Fund AI investments are portfolio, not compute.

What this record flags about itself · 4

NOK 3.4B is planning/recommendation figure, not single appropriation
Olivia NOK 225M and LUMI-AI NOK 215M are verifiable contract/commitment figures
NBIM and Oil Fund AI investments are portfolio investments, not sovereign compute procurement.
Verified: Olivia launched in November 2025 with 304 GH200 and expanded to 448 GH200 in February 2026, per Sigma2 official documentation at authority tier 1.

The evidence trail

7 cited sources

Olivia supercomputer (Sigma2) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-07
Olivia hardware specifications (Sigma2 docs) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-08
Olivia delivery announcement (HPE) — Primary source · accessed 2026-04-08
NOK 3.4B total plan breakdown — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
Research Council funding announcements — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
Olivia tender process — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28
Sigma2 2024 annual report — Primary source · accessed 2026-03-28

Machine surfacesThis record is one object under one id: the evidence-trail feed and the derivation-chain export serialize the same programme this page renders.