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Nscale

European sovereign GPU cloud, hydro-powered in Norway

Nscale is a fast-rising European sovereign AI cloud operating GPU clusters from hydro-powered Nordic data centers (Norway), raising large 2025 rounds and signing major capacity deals (including with Microsoft and for OpenAI-linked Stargate-Europe compute). It represents the emerging class of EU-jurisdiction neoclouds challenging US hyperscaler dominance on sovereignty and clean power.

Power

Nordic hydro

Positioning

EU sovereign neocloud

2025 deals

Microsoft, Stargate-Europe

How it fits the stack

Nscale with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

depends oncompetes withNscaleCloudNvidia Data-Center GPU(Blackwell/Rubin)chokepointCoreWeave (financing)
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Nscale in the AI stack. Nscale with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 3 entities, 2 relationships
  • Nscaledepends onNvidia Data-Center GPU (Blackwell/Rubin)
  • Nscalecompetes withCoreWeave (financing)

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