Nvidia’s Jensen Huang tells Nscale to work around the clock on data center delays

When the CEO of Nvidia publicly tells you to pick up the pace, it is probably not a casual suggestion. At Nvidia’s GTC event in Berlin on October 21-22, 2026, Jensen Huang urged UK-based AI infrastructure company Nscale to “work around the clock” to fix delays and equipment issues at its data centers. The timing is awkward, since Nscale is preparing for a NYSE IPO at a targeted $30 billion valuation. A fast climb meets the physical world Nscale’s rise has been unusually quick, even by AI-boom standards. The company was founded in 2024 as a spinout of Arkon Energy, and it secured £500 million from Nvidia in 2025. In the two years since launch, Nscale has built up over $100 billion in contracted revenue, according to the research findings. It has also signed partnerships with Microsoft and Anthropic, two of the most closely watched names in artificial intelligence. The clearest example of that gap is in Loughton, Essex. Microsoft has withdrawn from a £2 billion UK project there with Nscale after delays in power grid connections pushed the site’s availability into the 2030s. That project would have housed 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs. Losing a client of Microsoft’s stature on a project of...