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The data center that will have to wait years for electricity

October 19, 2026
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The site has been cleared, but enough electricity to get the data center running might not arrive until the next decade. In Loughton, Essex, Nscale is planning a large artificial intelligence facility that the British government presented as the country's largest sovereign AI data center. Its

The site has been cleared, but enough electricity to get the data center running might not arrive until the next decade. In Loughton, Essex, Nscale is planning a large artificial intelligence facility that the British government presented as the country’s largest sovereign AI data center. It was scheduled to open in 2027. Now Microsoft, which was set to be one of its main customers, has withdrawn from the agreement for that project. According to The Guardian, Microsoft was the planned anchor tenant. Its departure leaves Nscale with no publicly announced customers for the Loughton center. The electricity delay, which had already cast doubt on the opening date, now has a concrete commercial consequence.

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