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As 2025 comes to a close, we take a moment to reflect on our journey that took us from a European AI infrastructure pioneer into a global force shaping how the world builds, powers, and scales AI. We continue to double down on a single, bold vision: to power the next generation of intelligence with unprecedented performance and efficiency for people everywhere.
Across record-breaking funding rounds, landmark partnerships, and cutting-edge technology, we have set a new standard for what it means to power the next-generation of intelligence from cloud to edge.
Here’s a look back at Nscale’s defining year through the lens of its people, partners, and technology.
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Leadership with vision
In 2025, Nscale’s leadership team became synonymous with AI progress, a reputation grown by bold global expansion.
“AI is reshaping economies and national strategies, but none of it happens without the physical backbone: data centers, GPUs, and the software to orchestrate them. That is what we are building at Nscale: infrastructure engineered for efficiency and scale.” - Josh Payne, CEO, Nscale
We set a new benchmark for global AI infrastructure, announcing a record-breaking $1.1 billion Series B — the largest in European history, quickly followed by a $433 million Pre-Series C SAFE.
The scale of the rounds reflect the deep confidence of both longstanding and new investors, as Nscale accelerates its vision for a world powered by sustainable, high-performance AI.
The financing is fueling the rapid deployment of Nscale’s AI data centers across Europe and North America, while expanding the engineering and operations teams that make this ambition real.
To deliver this next stage of growth, Nscale is raising the bar, from our acquisition of Future-tech to bringing on some of the industry’s most accomplished leaders in AI infrastructure.
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Together, these leaders strengthen Nscale’s ability to build, power, and scale the next generation of AI infrastructure.
Building a global alliance
If 2025 was a year of vision for Nscale’s leadership, it was also a year of execution through collaborations. The company forged relationships that positioned it at the intersection of industrial and technological collaboration worldwide.
This year, Nscale built a global alliance to accelerate our ability to scale at unprecedented speed. We opened our flagship London, UK office, expanded relationships with governments, and deepened collaborations with industry leaders including Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Dell, Nokia, Vast, Verne, and Aker.
“Together with Nscale, Microsoft is delivering cutting-edge AI infrastructure for our customers. Nscale is an ideal partner for this mission, given its deep expertise in providing AI infrastructure services at scale.” - Jon Tinter, President, Business Development and Ventures, at Microsoft.
Through projects like Stargate Norway, Stargate UK, Start Campus in Portugal, and a hyperscale AI campus in Texas, we are advancing sovereign AI capabilities and establishing the foundations for rapid, internationally coordinated growth.
“I’ve always said we’d love to bring Stargate to Europe if the conditions are right, and we think we’ve found that in Narvik with clean, affordable energy, ideal climate, and great partners in Nscale and Aker.” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
Engineering the future of AI compute
While partnerships strengthened reach, the technological milestones we hit in 2025 solidified our position as an AI-native engineering powerhouse, delivering technology that makes large-scale compute simpler, faster, and more accessible.
We expanded our Serverless AI Services, with two major capabilities:
- Serverless Inference, allowing developers to deploy leading models like Llama, DeepSeek, and Qwen without provisioning infrastructure.
- Serverless Fine-tuning, enabling teams to customise models with their own data through a fully managed, on-demand workflow.
“Launching our Serverless Inference marks Nscale’s expansion into public, on-demand AI services, making AI model deployment simple and cost-effective.” - Daniel Bathurst, Chief Product Officer, Nscale
We rolled out key compute building blocks, like elastic GPU Instances you can turn on and off as needed, and pre-configured multi-GPU clusters for bigger AI jobs, so customers can build and train AI faster.
At the same time, enterprises continued adopting our Private AI Cloud, which gives them a secure, dedicated environment to run everything from everyday AI services to massive training workloads, all managed through familiar tools.
More recently, we previewed Fleet Operations, our automation and observability system that keeps hundreds of thousands of GPUs healthy and efficient across regions.
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Together, these technologies reflect Nscale’s mission to deliver AI infrastructure that is powerful, simple, and ready to scale with the world’s most ambitious teams.
Building a legacy for future generations
2025 has been a year of expansion and collaboration for Nscale. The company is building the backbone of AI’s future and advancing a global vision for sustainable, resilient, and accessible high performance AI.
Nscale is proving that the AI era can be powered sustainably with uncompromising performance to build future-proof infrastructure for decades to come.
“I’ve helped build 54 data centers in my career but Glomfjord is different. It’s powered 100% by renewable energy and built with purpose. For Nscale, it’s about driving AI forward, responsibly.” - Alex Sharp, President of the Data Center Group, Nscale
As Nscale moves into 2026, the groundwork laid this year — across people, partners, and technology — positions it as a linchpin in the global AI ecosystem. What began as a vision for European compute has evolved into a mission to power the world’s next generation of intelligence.
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