Norway's National Library Building Sovereign LLM with 2PB Huawei Flash Storage — 271 Points on HN

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Norway's National Library is building a sovereign Norwegian-language LLM using 2 petabytes of Huawei OceanStor Dorado flash storage, drawing from 20PB of digitized national content. Announced at Huawei's ID Forum 2026 in Paris, the project highlights that the biggest bottleneck isn't compute but data quality and cleaning at petabyte scale. No commercial LLM provider was building a Norwegian language model, forcing the sovereign approach.