OpenAI and Nscale announce Stargate UK partnership

Nscale

OpenAI, NVIDIA and Nscale announced Stargate UK partnership to deploy sovereign AI computing capacity across Nscale UK facilities. Initial phase explores up to 8,000 GPUs in Q1 2026, with potential to scale to 31,000 GPUs over time.

• Initial GPU exploration: up to 8,000 NVIDIA GPUs deploying Q1 2026.
• Scaling potential to 31,000 GPUs over time for OpenAI's UK workloads.
• Sovereign capacity for regulated use cases: critical services, finance, research, national security.