Scrutica
Capacity, hardware inventory, ownership chain, and supply-chain position for Nscale Loughton. Any export-control exposure is walked through the canonical organization graph — surfacing when the BIS Entity List touches a node above the facility in the chain — rather than asserted at the facility row.
As of 2026-07-27
Operator (or owner of record) per the Scrutica facility row.
Ownership chain not yet documented in the available data (licensed corporate-ownership database, licensed supply-chain database, SEC filings, LEI registry; as of 2026-07-27). The chain may extend further once additional ingestion runs complete; absence here reflects coverage at this snapshot, not a documented apex.
2 records
Every organization on record at Nscale Loughton, with the role it plays and the source for that specific claim. A party marked inferred is recorded as a reading of the cited source rather than something the source states outright.
since Jan 13, 2025
Nscale announced the purchase of the Loughton site on 2025-01-13 and refers to “Nscale’s AI Campus in Loughton” in its 2025-09-16 release. start_date is the purchase announcement, not a confirmed completion date.
Description
Nscale’s Loughton AI campus in Essex — the company’s first UK site, whose purchase it announced on 2025-01-13. On 2025-09-16 Nscale and Microsoft announced a commitment on the campus: 50 MW of AI capacity scalable to 90 MW, initially housing 23,040 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs delivered in Q1 2027, with the facility to “play a vital role in providing Microsoft’s Azure services across the UK.” That chip figure supersedes Nscale’s own January 2025 statement that the site could “house up to 45,000 of the latest Nvidia GB200 GPUs” — a site-capacity ceiling rather than a committed deployment. Both figures are Nscale’s: the substrate preserves the January transcription and the displayed chip, FLOP and H100-equivalent values carry the September commitment through the editorial corrections overlay.
Notes
Slightly unclear if they refer to GB200 GPUs or entire chips (2 GPUs)
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Other Facilities in GB
operator_statement_superseded — The substrate row transcribes Nscale’s January 2025 site-capacity ceiling (45,000 NVIDIA GB200). Nscale’s September 2025 release with Microsoft commits 23,040 NVIDIA GB300 delivered in Q1 2027. Displayed chip, FLOP and H100-equivalent values carry the September figure through the editorial corrections overlay; the accelerator-inventory panel renders the corrected count against the substrate’s hardware type, so GB200 may still appear as the model name until an Epoch refresh carries the GB300 line.GPUs
iNo jurisdictions documented for this chain in the available data — at least one ancestor must carry an HQ country in the canonical organization record for jurisdictional exposure to compute. This section will populate automatically as additional ingestion adds HQ countries to the chain.
No flags found across the chain (BIS Entity List, designation-cascade closures, or compute-threshold reporting obligations) as of 2026-07-27. Cascade closures evaluated: 0.
No ownership-change events documented in the available data for any entity in this chain over the last 5 years. Events draw from a licensed corporate-ownership database’s deal records (M&A, buyout, divestiture, asset sale, JV formation); coverage is strongest for private US/EU transactions and partial for state-owned-enterprise restructurings or non-Western private deals. Subsequent ingestion runs may add events here.
No documented sovereign or state-linked LP investment touches any entity in this chain. The licensed database’s LP disclosure is partial — an empty list here is a coverage limit, not a finding.
The walk for Nscale Loughtonstarts at the operator org id (or owner org id when no operator is recorded) and climbs upward through the unified affiliate graph, normalized to trace child-to-parent relationships. At each hop, the highest-authority parent edge wins (priority ordering: SEC EDGAR / 10-K / LEI registry > licensed corporate-ownership database > licensed supply-chain database > BIS / Federal Register > licensed affiliate graph). Confidence and recency break ties.
The walk terminates on (a) a node with a public-filing-grade ancestor edge — a SEC filer, an LEI-registered listed entity, or a 10-K-disclosed parent — (b) a government entity, (c) a 10-hop limit, or (d) a detected cycle. When termination is not at a public filer or government, the panel labels the chain's end-state as opaque beyond that point. Opacity is reported, never implied.
Per-source confidence (licensed corporate-ownership database): HIGH for Parent / Subsidiary edges; MEDIUM for JV and AFFILIATE edges. Known limitations: (1) shell companies with undisclosed principals terminate the public-record walk; (2) recent transactions reach the panel after the database's weekly refresh; (3) cross-jurisdiction private holding structures may carry intermediate hops that are not in any ingested source. Each row carries an edge-level as of date so freshness is auditable per hop.
Two further caveats are inherent to how the walker and the underlying data compose. The walker selects a single highest-authority parent per hop, so JV or multi-parent ownership structures collapse to one displayed path; alternate parents exist in the ingested sources but are not surfaced on this card. And some licensed-database edges encode parent-of relations against entity-resolved stub IDs whose display name reflects a sub-entity (a business unit, an acquired-then-renamed line) rather than the canonical parent — when a chain reads structurally surprising, the per-row source citation is the authoritative reference, not the chain's narrative shape.
Computed at: 2026-07-27. Walk depth observed: 1 hop. Sources combined: Scrutica facility record + licensed corporate-ownership database + SEC CIK cross-reference + LEI registry + (where applicable) licensed supply-chain database + Federal Register designation closures. The licensed databases are held under subscription and not redistributed; per-hop labels name no vendor.
Microsoft Azure services (UK) · since Sep 16, 2025
Nscale and Microsoft “have entered a commitment on Nscale’s AI Campus in Loughton”; the facility “will play a vital role in providing Microsoft’s Azure services across the UK” (Nscale press release, 2025-09-16). Satya Nadella is quoted in the same release announcing “the UK’s largest supercomputer, powered by over 23,000 GPUs.” The role is modelled as tenant — Microsoft takes capacity at a site Nscale owns; the release states no equity or lease terms, and none are inferred here.