A cancelled €30bn fab was still listed as an announced project, and a UK AI campus named the wrong owner alongside a superseded chip count
Intel Fab 52 Magdeburg carried status "announced" with the description "Construction paused September 2024 amid Intel restructuring" and the claim that a €9.9 billion EU Chips Act subsidy had been approved. Intel cancelled the project on 2025-07-24, twelve months before this correction. Separately, Nscale Loughton listed CloudHQ as its owner, 45,000 NVIDIA GB200 accelerators, 112,500 PFLOP/s and 113,694 H100 equivalents, and recorded no relationship to Microsoft. The Loughton figures fed the UK column on the country rollups, the map, and every capacity surface that sums GPUs by geography.
Magdeburg is cancelled: Intel’s second-quarter 2025 earnings release (2025-07-24) states that Intel "will no longer move forward with planned projects in Germany and Poland." On the subsidy, the German Federal Government’s own statement about the June 2023 declaration of intent gives federal funding of "up to 9.9 billion euros" and adds that it "is subject to approval by the European Commission under state aid legislation" — pledged subject to approval, which is not the same as approved; Scrutica makes no claim about whether approval or disbursement followed, because no primary source for either was located. Loughton is owned by Nscale, which announced its purchase of the site on 2025-01-13, and Microsoft is recorded as a tenant: Nscale’s 2025-09-16 release with Microsoft states the campus "will play a vital role in providing Microsoft’s Azure services across the UK." The displayed accelerator figures are now 23,040 GB300, 57,600 PFLOP/s and 58,211 H100 equivalents, from that same release. Both chip figures are Nscale’s own: 45,000 GB200 was a January 2025 site-capacity ceiling ("can house up to"), 23,040 GB300 is a committed deployment nine months later. The earlier statement is preserved in the substrate and in a source-conflict record rather than deleted — a reader tracking announced-versus-deployed capacity needs both.