Red Party proposes a temporary halt for new data centres

Original title (Norwegian): Rødt foreslår midlertidig stans for nye datasentre

The Red Party (Rødt) has proposed in the Storting a temporary halt for new data centres, along with a licensing regime and other measures. Its reasoning says crypto-mining data centres get power ahead of key local industries and that the crypto-mining ban the Storting has asked for three times in two years is still not in place, though none of the proposals singles out crypto.

Norway · Stortinget · 5 Oct 2026

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