Stargate UK (Nscale for OpenAI)

OpenAI, NVIDIA and Nscale’s UK sovereign-compute build: up to 8,000 NVIDIA GPUs for OpenAI from Q1 2026, with room to grow to 31,000.

Stargate UK (Nscale for OpenAI) is an announced GPU cluster run by Nscale (OpenAI offtake) in Cobalt Park, North Tyneside, United Kingdom (one of several UK sites). 8,000 GPUs are planned; no installed count is published.

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Verified 11 Nov 2026

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Owner / operator Organization that owns or operates the GPUs. Hosting and facility roles are listed under Partners.: Nscale (OpenAI offtake) 1
GPU maker NVIDIA, AMD or Intel, taken from the GPU model.: NVIDIA 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.: 8,000 1
GPU count notes What the count covers (one partition, one site, a design limit), qualifiers and competing figures.: Up to 8,000 GPUs in Q1 2026, potentially 31,000 over time; GPU model not named. 1
Location City, region and country where the cluster sits. Empty when the operator does not name the site.: Cobalt Park, North Tyneside, United Kingdom (one of several UK sites) 1
Country Country of the cluster, taken from the location.: United Kingdom 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
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.: No go-live confirmed as of 11 Nov 2026. 1
Partners Customer, facility owner, builder or procurement body, as named by the source.: OpenAI; NVIDIA 1

Sources

Nscale: UK AI infrastructure announcement (Sep 2025) accessed 2026-11-11

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