Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
Key takeaways
- Norway’s National Library is developing a large language model (LLM) that understands the Norwegian language and is using 2 PB of Huawei Ocean Stor Dorado flash storage in its AI training data pipeline.
- Marius Husnes, the Head of IT Platform at the library (Nasjonlbiblioteket) discussed the project at Huawei’s ID Forum 2026 in Paris, saying that no commercial LLM provider was developing a local (Norwegian) language LLM.
- Norway’s Ministry of Culture tasked the National Library with building a sovereign AI (LLM) as the library has the single largest digital collection of Norwegian books, newspapers, web pages and so forth in the country.
Norway’s National Library is developing a large language model (LLM) that understands the Norwegian language and is using 2 PB of Huawei Ocean Stor Dorado flash storage in its AI training data pipeline.
Marius Husnes. Marius Husnes, the Head of IT Platform at the library (Nasjonlbiblioteket) discussed the project at Huawei’s ID Forum 2026 in Paris, saying that no commercial LLM provider was developing a local (Norwegian) language LLM. He asserted that any country with its own language that did not have a sovereign LLM trained in that language was at a disadvantage as a globally trained, English-speaking LLM would not know about that country’s history, news and culture that was described in the local language.
Norway’s Ministry of Culture tasked the National Library with building a sovereign AI (LLM) as the library has the single largest digital collection of Norwegian books, newspapers, web pages and so forth in the country. Like many state libraries it is entitled to receive copies of every published book and broadcasted content. Its legal deposit mandate in this area extended beyond books, as it was duty-bound to collect and preserve all of Norway’s cultural heritage.