# Nscale Loughton Facility record `fac-epoch-gc-nscale-loughton` — data source: epoch-gpu-clusters (https://web.archive.org/web/20250116140650/https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/01/13/3008191/0/en/AI-hyperscaler-Nscale-to-invest-2-5-2-billion-in-the-UK-data-centre-industry-over-the-next-three-years.html); authority tier 2; contains estimated values (is_estimated: true) | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | ai training | | Status | announced | | Location | Loughton, GB | | Power capacity | 90 MW | | IT load | not published | | GPU count | 23,040 | | Peak PFLOPS (FP16) | 57,600 | | Owner | Nscale | | Operator | not published | | Announced | not published | | Operational | not published | 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. ## Data-quality flags - operator_statement_superseded ## Cite > Scrutica, "Nscale Loughton" (facility record), https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-epoch-gc-nscale-loughton; data source: epoch-gpu-clusters; accessed 2026-07-27. Full interactive record: https://scrutica.com/facilities/fac-epoch-gc-nscale-loughton · Methodology for derived values: https://scrutica.com/methodology#flop-estimation · All programmatic surfaces: https://scrutica.com/agents