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Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale UK Data Center Deal: Why It Matters

Original editorial illustration of a half-built AI data center with dark unpowered server halls and a disconnected high-voltage power line against a gray sky

Microsoft has walked away from the site that was supposed to house the United Kingdom’s largest AI supercomputer. The Telegraph reported on October 18 that Microsoft ended its agreement to be the anchor customer at Nscale’s planned AI data center in Loughton, Essex — a £2 billion project meant to host more than 23,000 Nvidia … Read more