Investment|The planned data center in Lappeenranta can employ another hundred employees after graduating. The Finnish company wants to build a data center with genuine Finnish power, including builders.
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The Finnish Polarnode company plans to build a billion-class data center in Lappeenranta and plans five other centers.
The Lappeenranta 150 MEGAWAT Data Center can employ about 150 employees after graduating.
Mikko Toivanen, Chairman of the Polarnode Board, says the company’s goal is to domesticize the value chains of data centers.
Finnish The Polarnode company plans to build a large data center of around EUR 1 billion in Lappeenranta, with a size designed over 150 megawatts.
These are one of the largest data center projects in Finland.
In addition, Polarnode has five other data center projects in the rest of Finland.
Some may be larger than the Lappeenranta project and some may be smaller. In total, these are over 500 megawatt projects. This is what the chairman of the Polarnode board and another founder says Mikko Toivanen.
In Lappeenranta The project received its final seal on Monday when the Lappeenranta City Government approved the reservation and a cooperation agreement.
According to Toivanen, it is possible to start construction of a data center for permits quickly.
The launch of the project is also accelerated by the fact that there are already two electrical connections and connecting power to the data center in Lappeenranta up to 100 megawatts during the first year.
Polarnode intends to announce five other projects later. Some of future projects are already valid. According to Toivanen, the first of them may be revealed in a few weeks. This is a project smaller than Lappeenranta.
Polarnode founders Mikko Toivanen and At Kalle Pykälä There is previous experience in wind power. They were among the first to make wind power investments when setting up a wind power company Ilmattare in 2011.
Chairman of the Polarnode Board and another founder Mikko Toivanen.
Lappeenranta The data center to be built in the Pajarila industrial area will be built on 33 hectares of industrial plot. The plot has the same amount of building rights as Tripla shopping center in Pasila, Helsinki, Toivanen illustrates.
Construction is possible at the end of this year and will last for 2-5 years.
The goal is to get 100 megawatts of 100 megawatts in the first year of use and the remaining 50 megawatts later.
According to Toivanen, the notion that the finished data center employs very few people is wrong.
“The employment effect is significant. Data centers employ just like paper mills,” says Toivanen.
As a result, data centers cannot be credibly designed for very small communities, as they require a reasonable amount of trained workforce.
Toivanen, a data center designed in Lappeenranta, predicts that about 100 employees in the first year of operation. When the total 150 megawatts are introduced, a total of about 150 employees are needed.
According to Toivanen, the project is expected to provide work for several hundred employees during the construction period.
The polar node According to Toivanen, the goal is to “do domestic value chains of data centers”.
“We want to create an ecosystem where data centers are made truly with Finnish design,” Toivanen says.
This also means using Finnish components, ordering the main contracts from Finnish companies and using Finnish builders, Toivanen explains.
Now, he says this is not necessarily the case. Data centers are often built in a hurry, whereby the data center operator may be tempted to bring the builders from abroad from the previous destination to run the project.
Lappeenranta, like all Polarnode data center projects, will be international companies.