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Nscale Secures $900M Credit Facility for Global AI Data Center Buildout

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Nscale, a London-based AI infrastructure startup, has closed a $900 million revolving credit facility to fund data center construction across Europe, the U.S., and Asia Pacific. The financing, arranged by Norwegian industrial firm Aker alongside Nokia, Dell, and Blue Owl Managed Funds, provides flexible liquidity to deploy GPU compute, networking, and data services infrastructure demanded by major AI developers.

The credit facility represents Nscale's latest capital injection following a $1.1 billion Series B in late 2024, a $433 million Pre-Series C SAFE in October 2025, and a $2 billion Series C that valued the company at $14.6 billion. The company previously secured an $865 million colocation agreement for a North Carolina data center. The current facility's specific deployment timeline and geographic allocation across the three regions remain undisclosed.

For practitioners, this deal signals accelerating consolidation around compute infrastructure as a critical bottleneck in AI development. Attorneys advising on AI infrastructure projects, data center financing, or competing in this space should monitor Nscale's execution against these capital commitments and track how major industrial players like Aker are positioning themselves in the compute layer—a shift that may reshape technology sector M&A and regulatory scrutiny around infrastructure concentration.

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