CoreWeave Brings 22.5MW Online in Denmark, Extends Backbone to Asia

CoreWeave has brought the majority of its planned 22.5MW of IT capacity online at atNorth's DEN01 data center in Copenhagen, marking the Nasdaq-listed AI cloud company's first deployment in Denmark.

The company announced the launch this week alongside plans to extend its global network backbone with new points of presence across Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

Where is the capacity sitting?

DEN01 is located in Ballerup, in greater Copenhagen. The facility offers 30MW across 27,730 sqm and supports liquid cooling at densities of 100kW per rack. atNorth announced the site in 2023; the first phase went live in Q4 2025 after a 12-month build.

atNorth holds a heat reuse agreement that supplies surplus heat from DEN01 to the local district heating network.

"Modern workloads demand digital infrastructure that is not only high performance, but also energy efficient and responsibly operated," said Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, CEO of atNorth.

He said CoreWeave gains access to DEN01's infrastructure, designed for GPU-intensive processing, while supporting renewable energy development through power purchase agreements and warming local homes through heat reuse.

How wide is CoreWeave's European footprint?

The Denmark deal adds to an established leasing portfolio across Europe. CoreWeave leases capacity in:

• Sweden (two sites)
• Norway
• Denmark
• Spain (three sites)
• the UK (two sites)

As of June 2026, CoreWeave operated 51 data centers worldwide with more than 1.5GW of active power. Contracted power stood at approximately 4.2GW as of its August 11, 2026 earnings call.

What does the backbone expansion add?

On the network side, CoreWeave will extend its global AI network backbone with new points of presence in:

• the United Arab Emirates
• India
• Indonesia
• Singapore
• Australia
• Korea
• Japan

The nodes will go live beginning later in the fourth quarter of 2026, extending to a full loop in mid-2027. The expansion extends CoreWeave's existing North American and European network to four continents.

"Our customers need more than access to computing capacity. They need infrastructure that performs reliably at scale and the ability to move data and workloads wherever their business requires," said Sachin Jain, chief operating officer of CoreWeave.

"We're expanding our global infrastructure and the network connecting it together, so customers can focus on building and improving AI rather than managing the complexity underneath it."

How is the network built?

Each point of presence combines multiple 400 gigabit-per-second connections. CoreWeave said the backbone uses hardware-based MACsec encryption to protect data in transit and runs redundant network paths.

The company did not disclose the financial terms of the atNorth lease or name customers for the new Danish capacity.

By mid-2027, CoreWeave will operate a four-continent backbone linking a contracted power base of roughly 4.2GW.