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It is worth noting that Finland is a member of Nord Pool (for electricity) which includes all Nordic nations. You cannot consider Finland alone in your supply

by throwaway2037 27d ago

It is worth noting that Finland is a member of Nord Pool (for electricity) which includes all Nordic nations. You cannot consider Finland alone in your supply and consumption expectations -- you need to include Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Both Norway and Sweden have massive annual electricity exports exceeding 30 TWh for each country. 60 TWh is the equivalent of four EPR nuclear power units that can produce about 14 THw per year! That is crazy over capacity in my view. The block has plenty of supply. Further, the article specifically says: > Google signed a 22-year contract with Finnish utility Fortum to buy up to 50% of the output from the Loviisa nuclear power plant. That nuclear power plant has two reactors that each produce about 8 TWh in total per year. So Google bought 4 TWh per year. Meh, no biggie. The Nordic Pool has plenty of capacity.

amiga386 27d ago
You can't sum like that, though. Connections between regions and countries have capacity limits, so it would matter where in Finland you placed a data-center, if you wanted to take into account the electricity coming from Sweden and Norway. Norway exports electricity primarily to England and Germany, only a little goes to Finland: https://www.statnett.no/en/for-stakeholders-in-the-power-industry/data-from-the-power-system/#import-and-export https://www.statnett.no/en/for-stakeholders-in-the-power-ind... Sweden sent 10.6TWh in 2025: https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kraftsystemdata/elstatistik/ https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kraftsystemdata/elstatis... This matches what Finland says about imports - imported 8.1TWh from Sweden but 0.2TWh from Norway in 2024 https://energia.fi/en/statistics/statistics-on-electricity/ https://energia.fi/en/statistics/statistics-on-electricity/ Take a look at the map. Sweden has three underwater cables to the south of Finland near Helsinki (quite near Olkiluoto NPP). Norway only connects in the very far north, its nearest "connection" is via Sweden to near Oulu. https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/ https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/

amiga386 27d ago

You can't sum like that, though. Connections between regions and countries have capacity limits, so it would matter where in Finland you placed a data-center, if you wanted to take into account the electricity coming from Sweden and Norway. Norway exports electricity primarily to England and Germany, only a little goes to Finland: https://www.statnett.no/en/for-stakeholders-in-the-power-industry/data-from-the-power-system/#import-and-export https://www.statnett.no/en/for-stakeholders-in-the-power-ind... Sweden sent 10.6TWh in 2025: https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kraftsystemdata/elstatistik/ https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kraftsystemdata/elstatis... This matches what Finland says about imports - imported 8.1TWh from Sweden but 0.2TWh from Norway in 2024 https://energia.fi/en/statistics/statistics-on-electricity/ https://energia.fi/en/statistics/statistics-on-electricity/ Take a look at the map. Sweden has three underwater cables to the south of Finland near Helsinki (quite near Olkiluoto NPP). Norway only connects in the very far north, its nearest "connection" is via Sweden to near Oulu. https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/ https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/