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

LONDON, April 23 (Reuters) - ‌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.

(Reporting by Paul SandleEditing by David ‌Goodman)

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