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.

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