UK’s Nscale to supply Microsoft with 200,000 Nvidia AI chips in major data center deal
Nscale, a British artificial intelligence infrastructure company backed by Nvidia, announced on Wednesday that it will supply around 200,000 Nvidia AI chips to Microsoft under an expanded partnership aimed at scaling data center capacity across Europe and the United States.
While the financial details were not disclosed, the Financial Times reported that the deal could be worth up to $14 billion, based on similar contracts. The agreement will be executed in collaboration with Dell Technologies, which will help deploy the AI hardware across Microsoft’s hyperscale facilities.
The rollout will begin next year, with Nscale supplying Nvidia GPUs from its data centers in Texas and Portugal, the company said. The project also includes a joint venture with Norway’s Aker, which will provide 52,000 additional GPUs from Nscale’s hyperscale AI campus in Narvik, Norway.
The partnership reflects the surging demand for AI computing power, as tech giants including Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet race to build infrastructure capable of training and deploying massive AI models. According to Citigroup, global AI-related infrastructure spending is expected to surpass $2.8 trillion by 2029.
Nscale, which raised $1.1 billion in September from investors including Aker and Finland’s Nokia, said the funds will accelerate its data center expansion and position the company as a key player in the global AI supply chain.