OpenAI is joining forces with two European companies to set up a data center in Norway, the ChatGPT maker’s first project of this kind on the continent as it seeks to expand artificial-intelligence infrastructure outside the U.

This investment will primarily create new jobs, fuel the country’s reindustrialisation, and help advance the US AI leadership, it said in a statement.

Sam Altman OpenAI will expand its Stargate project to Europe with the construction of a new data center in Norway.