Greenland Data Centers
From One Nuuk Facility to Global Cold-Climate Compute Interest
Greenland is suddenly getting mentioned in the same sentence as AI infrastructure and hyperscale data centers. That sounds futuristic but it’s not purely hype. Greenland already has a real, operational data footprint in Nuuk, and now its national telecoms operator Tusass is building a second, Tier III-quality colocation facility aimed at materially upgrading the island’s digital resilience.
At the same time, global interest in cold-climate compute is accelerating as AI pushes power demand higher and cooling efficiency becomes a competitive advantage putting Arctic geographies back on the map for developers looking for the next frontier.
Where Greenland is today: small base, big significance
Greenland is an immense territory with a very low population density, and communities are concentrated in a handful of coastal hubs with smaller settlements scattered along the coastline with virtually no roads connecting towns, making the country function like a set of separated nodes.
That reality shapes digital coverage into what locals often describe as connectivity bubbles: pockets of reliable service around towns, separated by long distances, weather, and hard logistics.
On the data-center side, Greenland’s footprint remains small. Industry facility trackers list one operational facility in Nuuk, which is why a second modern build can be meaningful for redundancy and national capability.
The Tusass Nuuk build: Tier III colocation, built for resilience
Tusass announced on Feb. 10, 2025 that it will build a new data centre in Qinngorput, Nuuk, with a total construction budget of DKK 155 million for the building and technical installations.
Trade reporting and industry trackers describe the site as Tier III-quality, with timelines cited as end-2026 in some sources and 2027 in others.
Tusass has framed the project as critical infrastructure intended to strengthen the stability of telephony and internet services, rather than a purely commercial nice-to-have.
Connectivity: Greenland is building the pipes that make data centers possible
Data centers aren’t just buildings and servers they’re bandwidth.
Tusass describes Greenland’s first submarine communications cable, Greenland Connect, as 5,404 km of fiber that went into operation in March 2009, forming the backbone of Greenland’s external connectivity.
In October 2025, Tusass also announced that financing was secured for a new submarine cable linking Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Denmark, describing it as a critical infrastructure step for society and national resilience.
The point is simple: cold climate alone doesn’t create a data-center market. Cold + reliable connectivity is what turns geography into a platform.
Satellites and the bubbles: why Eutelsat matters
Tusass has also moved to reinforce coverage in remote areas through satellites a natural fit for a country of dispersed coastal settlements.
On Oct. 1, 2025, Tusass said it signed a multi-year strategic agreement with France’s Eutelsat to bring OneWeb low-Earth-orbit (LEO) connectivity to Greenland, aimed at needs ranging from community broadband to maritime/mobility and emergency services.
The need for diversified, resilient links was underlined in late April 2025, when a major power outage in Spain disrupted satellite services for remote parts of Greenland after Tusass reported losing connection to satellite equipment located in Maspalomas in the Canary Islands.
The big idea proposals: Kangerlussuaq and gigawatt-scale talk
As Greenland’s core connectivity improves, the rhetoric is getting bigger.
On Jan. 23, 2026, Data Center Dynamics reported (citing CNBC) that a gigawatt-scale data center campus has been pitched for the Kangerlussuaq area.
That kind of scale is enormous by any standard and it’s important to label it correctly: a reported proposal, not a completed project.
The reality check: what Greenland must solve to host large-scale compute
If Greenland becomes a serious data-center destination, climate is only one variable. The gating factors remain:
- Power (generation, transmission, redundancy)
- Connectivity (multiple resilient subsea routes + domestic backbone)
- Permitting & local buy-in (Greenlandic priorities come first)
- Workforce & logistics (construction, maintenance, spares, seasonal realities)
Greenland doesn’t need to become the next Virginia to matter. Even modest, resilient builds in Nuuk are meaningful because they strengthen national capability and they support the wider patchwork of connectivity bubbles along the coast.
The cold-climate compute thesis may still be early, but the infrastructure pieces are starting to move: Tier III capacity in Nuuk, new subsea financing, and LEO satellite redundancy.
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