Europe’s Great Battery Hope Northvolt Loses Power

Located around the Artic Circle, Sweden’s Norrland is a land of rolling hills and roaring rivers — and a center for green energy. The region boasts cheap, clean hydropower and modern roads and ports. Underground lie critical minerals.  

Meta arrived first, in 2011, to build a data center in Luleå run by hydropower. H2Green attracted billions of dollars in Boden, aiming to reduce the carbon emission of traditional steelmaking by 95%. Most of all, ambitious electric batter company Northvolt chose the small town of Skellefteå.