After reading those (good sources btw) - seems it’s really only January that has had really high prices in the Northern areas, due to in part the cold front that hit Finland but also from the new power transfer line that’s being set up, after which it’s expected that Sweden will be taking power generated here. Seems Swedish power generation was also lower than usual January.

We do usually have a surplus, but power consumption here went up both from the sudden cold, nuclear maintenance, and the new sand batteries going up.

Also, some of those places being heated are quite large and older buildings that are undergoing restoration, like a farm.

That said, the data center really only makes sense of it’ll be in Southern Sweden, and by the time it’s up it’ll be years from now. If they don’t fix the price issues after February though, y’all should start seriously protesting.