Nvidia-backed Neocloud Nscale faces years of delay because UK's 'largest AI supercomputer' can't get enough power from the grid to feed its data centers
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Power, not chips, is now the gating factor for hyperscale AI — a 2027 UK supercomputer slipping to 2030 on grid constraints makes that explicit. If you're planning serious AI capacity, you need power procurement and grid access in the same workstream as GPU sourcing.
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