Companies/Nscale
Nscale
AI infrastructure developer that builds and operates its own data centers, selling GPU capacity to hyperscaler customers under long-term contracts; building the Loughton, UK and Narvik, Norway campuses that supply Microsoft Azure capacity.
Systems this company appears in
- Systems
- 4
- Aggregate Rmax
- 0.0 GFlop/s
- Aggregate power
- 0 kW
- First appearance
- 2025-09
- Most recent
- 2026-04
- Concentration
- -
systems it appears in
where disclosed
largest is Nscale Verne Iceland Cluster
Aggregate Rmax is the sum of the systems this company supplies any part of. It is not revenue and not attributable share: an integrator and a memory vendor in the same machine both count its full FLOPS here. Attribution weighted by role is Phase 4.
Role breakdown
| Role | Systems | Rmax in those systems |
|---|---|---|
| Integrator | 4 | 0.0 GFlop/s |
Appearances
| System | Supplied as | Shipped under | Rmax | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nscale Verne Iceland Cluster Iceland · 2026-04 | Integrator | Nscale | - | unranked |
| SINES Data Campus GB300 Deployment Portugal · 2026 | Integrator | Nscale | - | unranked |
| Microsoft Azure AI supercomputer (Loughton, UK) United Kingdom · | Integrator | Nscale | - | unranked |
| Microsoft Azure AI datacenter (Narvik, Norway) Norway · | Integrator | Nscale | - | unranked |
AI datacenters operated
| System | Status | Accelerators | Stated power (MW) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Svartisen | operational | - | - |
| Nscale Verne Iceland Cluster | operational | 4,600 | 15 |
Figures come from the AI datacenter metrics; blank means none recorded.
Compute deals
| Date | Role | Counterparty | Type | MW | Value ($bn) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-25 | Seller | Anthropic | Cloud contract | - | 44.6 | sec.gov |
| 2026-05-05 | Seller | Microsoft | Cloud contract | 200 | - | nscale.com |
| 2026-04-14 | Seller | Microsoft | Cloud contract | 230 | - | nscale.comdatacenter-forum.com |
| 2025-11-20 | Buyer | Verne | Datacenter lease | 15 | - | nscale.comverne.co |
| 2025-10-15 | Seller | Microsoft | Cloud contract | - | - | nscale.comlp.startcampus.pt |
| 2025-09-17 | Seller | Microsoft | Cloud contract | - | 6.2 | filingreader.comnews.microsoft.com |
| 2025-09-16 | Seller | OpenAI | Cloud contract | - | - | nscale.comtechzine.eu |
| 2025-07-31 | Seller | OpenAI | Cloud contract | 230 | - | nscale.comdatacenter-forum.com |
Headline values are as announced and are not additive. See all compute deals.
Sites operated
| Site | Location | Cooling | Commissioned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nscale AI Campus (Loughton) | Loughton, United Kingdom | - | 2027 |
| Nscale Narvik campus | Narvik, Norway | - | 2026 |
| Nscale Glomfjord DC | Glomfjord, Norway | - | 2024 |
Related news
- AI cloud and data center firm Nscale raises $3.36bn ahead of its IPO · Data Center DynamicsNscale's $3.36bn pre-IPO round includes a $1bn tranche from NVIDIA itself, adding an equity stake to the vendor-customer relationship already in the graph and funding the roughly 461,000-GPU buildout -- mostly NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 -- including capacity contracted by Microsoft and Anthropic at the new Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia.