🏗️ Microsoft steps back from the UK’s largest planned AI data centre 👀
The project: Nscale’s £2bn facility in Loughton, Essex, which was set to host a Microsoft-funded supercomputer 💻
The setback: a grid issue means the site’s power supply, due at the end of this year, now won’t arrive until the 2030s ⚡
Nscale says it’s staying the course:
📍 Still committed to Loughton and the UK
📍 Exploring alternative power sources
📍 Looking at other UK expansion sites
📍 Partnership with Microsoft “remains strong” on projects in Norway, Portugal and the US 🌍
The timing stands out. Just last month, Microsoft said part of its $30bn UK investment would fund this very supercomputer. The site was also expected to create 250 permanent jobs 💼
It’s a reminder that in the AI race, chips and capital are only half the story. Power infrastructure may be the real bottleneck 🔌
#Microsoft #MSFT #AI #DataCentres #UKTech #Infrastructure
The project: Nscale’s £2bn facility in Loughton, Essex, which was set to host a Microsoft-funded supercomputer 💻
The setback: a grid issue means the site’s power supply, due at the end of this year, now won’t arrive until the 2030s ⚡
Nscale says it’s staying the course:
📍 Still committed to Loughton and the UK
📍 Exploring alternative power sources
📍 Looking at other UK expansion sites
📍 Partnership with Microsoft “remains strong” on projects in Norway, Portugal and the US 🌍
The timing stands out. Just last month, Microsoft said part of its $30bn UK investment would fund this very supercomputer. The site was also expected to create 250 permanent jobs 💼
It’s a reminder that in the AI race, chips and capital are only half the story. Power infrastructure may be the real bottleneck 🔌
#Microsoft #MSFT #AI #DataCentres #UKTech #Infrastructure
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