Summary
- RFPs cover liquid-to-liquid CDUs, modular UPS systems, and high-ampacity busways.
- Aurora Core says grid, EIA, waste-heat, and local engineering work is under way.
- The company has not disclosed the site's location, final capacity, construction value, or energisation date.
3 E Network Technology Group says its Finnish subsidiary Aurora Core Technology Oy has moved a proposed AI data centre from feasibility work into procurement and front-end implementation, with equipment RFPs, grid negotiations, environmental studies, and local engineering activity now under way.
The company says Aurora Core has issued requests for proposals covering liquid-to-liquid coolant distribution units, modular UPS systems, and high-ampacity intelligent busways intended to support high-density compute, including future Nvidia Vera Rubin architectures.
It is also negotiating with a regional utility over grid interconnection and capacity allocation, including engineering for dual redundant feeds. Environmental work is moving towards formal EIA filings covering cooling-water recycling, cooling-tower noise, and lifecycle carbon.
The announcement is more detailed than the company’s earlier statements about a Nordic AI infrastructure strategy, but substantial project information remains absent. No exact Finnish location, final electrical capacity, construction budget, grid reservation, planning date, or target for service has been disclosed.
Procurement begins before the project is fully defined publicly
Aurora Core describes the development as multi-megawatt rather than assigning a specific capacity. That distinction matters because an RFP for equipment is evidence of front-end activity, but it is not equivalent to a construction start or secured utility connection.
The Finnish entity is wholly owned within 3 E Network’s corporate structure and was incorporated in December 2025 for data centre construction. The parent company’s regulatory filings therefore support the existence and purpose of the subsidiary independently of the latest promotional announcement.
For the cooling system, the focus on liquid-to-liquid CDUs suggests a facility-water loop transferring heat from technology cooling systems serving high-density racks. Final CDU capacity, redundancy, secondary-loop temperatures, and heat-rejection design have not been specified.
The power programme appears similarly early. Negotiations are moving from initial capability studies towards interconnection arrangements, but the company has not said a binding grid agreement has been signed. Until capacity is allocated and delivery dates are defined, the project remains exposed to the same connection uncertainty affecting many European AI developments.
The company’s reference to concurrently maintainable dual feeds indicates an intended resilience level, but the architecture cannot be assessed fully without information on substations, UPS topology, standby generation, on-site storage, and which components are designed for concurrent maintenance.
Waste heat is being treated as a commercial workstream
Aurora Core says it has begun discussions with municipal heating providers about taking heat from the liquid-cooling system into a district-heating network. That is notable because the company describes heat recovery not only as an emissions measure but as a potential revenue-sharing arrangement.
Finland’s district-heating infrastructure gives data centre developers more realistic opportunities for heat reuse than markets where no nearby network exists. The economics still depend on temperature, distance, seasonality, heat-pump requirements, contractual responsibility, and whether a heat customer is prepared to rely on a data centre whose IT load may change.
Local engineering work is also examining structural loads for fully populated AI racks and construction programmes suitable for Finnish winters. The company says environmental consultants are using ten years of local meteorological data to assess free-cooling parameters.
Funding for the current front-end work comes partly from a $1m private placement subscribed by an entity affiliated with 3 E Network’s chief executive. The company says those proceeds are supporting FEED work, geotechnical surveys, environmental documentation, and electrical studies.
That amount is sufficient to fund development activity rather than a full multi-megawatt AI facility. The larger financing requirement remains unresolved publicly and will depend on eventual site scale, utility works, buildings, electrical and cooling plant, and IT procurement.
Aurora Core has therefore moved beyond a purely conceptual announcement, but the next milestones are considerably harder: named location, secured electricity capacity, planning progress, construction financing, and contracted delivery partners. Those disclosures will determine whether the procurement activity develops into an executable Finnish data centre programme.
