Nscale Texas Microsoft cluster
Nscale contracted a large Texas GPU deployment to provide AI infrastructure services to Microsoft.
Nscale Texas Microsoft cluster is an announced GPU cluster run by Nscale in Barstow (Cedarvale site), Ward County, Texas, United States. 104,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs are planned; no installed count is published. Planned power: 240 MW.
Facts
Source per value- Owner / operator Organization that owns or operates the GPUs. Hosting and facility roles are listed under Partners.
- Nscale 1
- GPU maker NVIDIA, AMD or Intel, taken from the GPU model.
- NVIDIA 1
- GPU model Accelerator model or family as disclosed. A GH200 is one GPU on a superchip; an MI300A is an APU that contains a GPU.
- NVIDIA GB300 1
- GPUs installed Physical GPUs in the cluster, from the operator or a deterministic sum of disclosed quantities (nodes × GPUs per node). Planned counts, H100-equivalents and unaudited press totals are never counted here.
- Not published
- GPUs planned Announced, contracted or target GPU count. Not evidence that the GPUs are installed.
- 104,000 1
- GPU count notes What the count covers (one partition, one site, a design limit), qualifiers and competing figures.
- Announced Texas campus allocation, not delivered count or global contract total. 1
- Location City, region and country where the cluster sits. Empty when the operator does not name the site.
- Barstow (Cedarvale site), Ward County, Texas, United States 1
- Country Country of the cluster, taken from the location.
- United States 1
- Live power MW Power in service, in megawatts of IT load where the source says so. Company figures are marked in the notes; Epoch AI satellite estimates are labelled as estimates.
- Not published
- Planned power MW Planned or contracted power at full build, in megawatts.
- 240 1
- Power notes Basis and date of the power figures, and who published them.
- About 240 MW campus, with potential to scale to 700 MW (Nscale). 1
- Status operational = running and named as such by the operator or a primary source; partly operational = a phase is live and more is coming; under construction = building underway; announced = disclosed or contracted with no confirmed go-live.
- announced 1
- Status notes The source’s wording on status, with the date.
- Contracted for Microsoft, with phased delivery from Q3 2026; delivery is not confirmed. 1
Sources
- nscale.com accessed 2026-11-11
- Ionic Digital: Cedarvale facility in Barstow, Texas, leased to Nscale accessed 2026-11-11
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