Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6 billion valuation
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Nvidia backs AI data center startup Nscale as it hits $14.6 billion valuation

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The announcement is purely a business/funding story: Nscale (a London-based AI data center and infrastructure provider) raised $1.1 billion in Series B funding led by Aker, with participation from Nvidia, Nokia, and Dell. It has a reported $14.6 billion valuation in the query title (though sources indicate earlier rounds), plans to deploy over 130,000 Nvidia GPUs including a single Norwegian data center project with 100,000 GPUs by 2027, and is compared at a high level to CoreWeave. Nvidia’s prior involvement was via a $433 million SAFE in late 2024/October 2025.

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