NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Praises Rapidly Rising AI Startup Nscale

Anu Joy

Published on November 14, 2025

Nscale has rapidly emerged as a major AI infrastructure player, securing $1.1 billion in Series B funding and £500 million from Nvidia, while expanding partnerships with Microsoft and OpenAI to build large-scale AI data centers across Europe.

Emerging as a new company in the U.K. two years ago, Nscale had not yet acquired any outside capital or established its public presence. The London-based company emerged from the shadows last year, and in December, it announced that it had closed its Series A fundraising round. accumulating a total of $155 million.

This was followed by a significant development where Nscale secured a massive $1.1 billion Series B round. It is among the largest that have ever been raised by a European startup, highlighting its rapid rise in the global AI infrastructure.

At the leading edge of the most vibrant market in the world, artificial intelligence, Nscale is currently placed as the world’s most valuable chipmaker, which recently committed £500 million to Nscale as part of the UK’s AI infrastructure expansion.

Nscale was named as an artificial intelligence infrastructure collaborator for Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI in a press release released on Tuesday, as these businesses expand their activities in the U.K. Following that, Nscale revealed a five-year, $6.2 billion deal with Microsoft and Aker to develop a “hyperscale AI data center” in Europe, especially in Norway, where Aker is based.

OpenAI had previously gained media attention with Nscale, disclosing intentions in July for a Stargate-branded AI data center in Norway. Hoping to have 100,000 Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) installed at the site by 2027, Nscale pledged $1 billion for this project. For a corporation not even founded when OpenAI sparked the generative artificial intelligence revolution with the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, this quick rise is amazing.

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Nscale, which was created a year earlier to support cryptocurrency mining, was part of Arkon Energy then. To satisfy the rising need for data centers able to handle artificial intelligence loads, Nscale was spun off.

Nscale is combining data center capacity, electricity, and providing a thorough service for AI infrastructure, a great number of GPUs, with its own software. Originating in the cryptocurrency industry, CoreWeave also offers infrastructure to Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI. Founded in 2017, the business first grew its Nvidia GPU fleet for Ethereum mining before changing direction toward artificial intelligence.