UK's BT and Nscale team up to build 14MW of AI capacity

Britain's BT Group is teaming up with Nscale to build up to 14 megawatts of AI data centre capacity across three of its sites using Nvidia ‌infrastructure, expanding ⁠its ⁠sovereign data service to public sector and business customers.

Nscale, founded in 2024 and backed by Nvidia, owns and operates its own data centres and raised $2 billion last month in a funding round ⁠that valued ‌it at $14.6 billion.

BT launched its sovereign data platform in December ⁠to store and process customer data in Britain, responding to increasing demands for higher levels of resilience.


Sovereign computing refers to a country's capacity to develop and control its own AI infrastructure.

"This investment in new ‌AI data centres will give businesses and public services the tools they need to use ⁠AI at scale here in the UK," said the British government's AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan.

BT said its full sovereign portfolio, combining connectivity, voice, cloud and AI services, is now available for public and private sector organisations.