Midgard Infra's Path to Efficient Data Centres

As several new technologies and trends are driving exponential increase of bandwidth, store and compute demands, and as FLAP is being congested, Midgard Infra’s cable infrastructure allows customers access to Norwegian data centres. Norway’s cold climate, reasonably priced electricity, and 98 percent renewable energy in the power mix work together to boost efficiency and lowering emissions—as well as costs.

About us

Midgard Infra provides international connectivity and high-speed data services across the Nordics and Europe. The company operates the NO-UK subsea cable between Norway and the UK and the Skagen Fiber West cable between Norway and Denmark, supported by an extensive terrestrial network. Midgard Infra is also developing Verena, a new high-capacity subsea cable system between the UK and Denmark designed to strengthen digital resilience and meet the growing demands of hyperscalers and data-driven industries.

Co-owned by Lyse and HitecVision, Midgard Infra connects major data centre hubs across Northern Europe—including Hamburg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, and Dublin—along with high-speed connectivity to the Americas via the Havfrue (AEC-2) trans-Atlantic cable. The network also includes one of the largest metro fibre systems in Oslo, providing robust and scalable infrastructure for global carriers, cloud providers, and enterprises.

Connecting Norway

Since 2012, Midgard Infra has established a high-capacity digital highway that connects Norway to Europe, enabling international service providers, datacentre providers and hyperscalers to move operations to Norway in order to take advantage of a myriad of efficiency, sustainability and costs benefits that are unique to Norway.

"There has been so many proud moments since Lyse gathered a small, but highly competent work group to establish Midgard Infra. Today, we have built a more robust infrastructure for data transmission between Europe and Norway, which opens a whole range of new possibilities for our customers. And of course, setting a world record for bandwidth on a repeated system with 800 Gbps from Norway to Newcastle was a peak point. All in all, the sum of our efforts to solve customer’s challenges with state-of-the-art solution just makes me so proud.”

— Employee at Midgard Infra

Stavanger-Newcastle

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  • Cabel length 700 km
  • Latency 7 ms
  • Speed 400 Gbit/s
  • Capacity 260 Tb