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- Microsoft cancelled its deal with Nscale to serve as anchor tenant and rent 23,000 Nvidia AI chips at a planned data center in Essex, UK that has faced repeated delays.
- Nscale faces a threat to its planned multibillion-dollar listing after Microsoft pulled out of the agreement.
Why it matters: Nscale loses its marquee anchor tenant just as it pursues a multibillion-dollar listing, while Microsoft walks away from an Essex site that has already suffered repeated construction delays. The collapse weakens the commercial story Nscale would pitch to public-market investors and removes a committed 23,000-chip deployment from Microsoft's UK pipeline.
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