Microsoft → Nscale: $3B cloud & services
Microsoft pulls out of Nscale Loughton data center. Microsoft gives up acting as anchor customer of the Loughton (Essex) site, about $3 billion, due to delays in the power connection. Approximate date.
- Date
- Jun 15, 2026
- Paid by
Microsoft- Received by
🇬🇧 Nscale- Type
- Cloud & services
- Amount
- $3B
- Status
- called off
- Note
- Loughton (UK) project abandoned
Sources
All deals between Microsoft and Nscale
- Oct 15, 2025 Microsoft → Nscale · Microsoft commits up to $43.8 billion with Nscale $43.8B
- Mar 15, 2026 Microsoft → Nscale · Microsoft books 1.35 GW from Nscale n/a
- Apr 14, 2026 Microsoft → Nscale · Microsoft takes over Stargate Norway capacity n/a
- Jun 15, 2026 Microsoft → Nscale · Microsoft pulls out of Nscale Loughton data center $3B
- Nov 5, 2026 Microsoft → Nscale · Microsoft does not double Nscale Texas contract n/a
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- Aug 25, 2026 Anthropic signs up to $44.6 billion with Nscale $44.6B
- Apr 27, 2026 Microsoft-OpenAI: amended deal ends exclusivity n/a
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