Claim · 2025-09-16 · announcement · Stated in source · Supported

Nscale announced on 16 September 2025 that Nscale, OpenAI and NVIDIA were together establishing Stargate UK, an infrastructure platform to deploy OpenAI’s technology in the UK, expected to be based across several UK sites including Cobalt Park, which will form part of the newly designated North East AI Growth Zone.

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Claim and evidence

Nscaleannounced site ↓

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2025-09-16 · announcement
Stage: announced

Scope and limitsA platform announcement, not a single site; no site other than Cobalt Park is named and no construction is stated.

The evidence 03

primary sourceSupports the claim

Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI

Nscale · 2025-09-16

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Source excerpt

“establishing Stargate UK, an overarching infrastructure platform”

Location in source paragraph 4

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Nscale
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 0ed575206c677a25b438171a86990da09fd960f7cfcfedcc635a7ef8792a2333). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "LONDON, UK, Sep 16, 2025, 10:30 PM BST". OpenAI's "Introducing Stargate UK" post refuses direct retrieval. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 0ed575206c677a25b438171a86990da09fd960f7cfcfedcc635a7ef8792a2333, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Nscale, “Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI”, 2025-09-16.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (7 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI

Nscale · 2025-09-16

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Source excerpt

“Stargate UK is expected to be based across a number of sites in the UK, including in Cobalt Park”

Location in source paragraph 4

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Nscale
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 0ed575206c677a25b438171a86990da09fd960f7cfcfedcc635a7ef8792a2333). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "LONDON, UK, Sep 16, 2025, 10:30 PM BST". OpenAI's "Introducing Stargate UK" post refuses direct retrieval. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 0ed575206c677a25b438171a86990da09fd960f7cfcfedcc635a7ef8792a2333, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Nscale, “Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI”, 2025-09-16.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (19 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

primary sourceSupports the claim

Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI

Nscale · 2025-09-16

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Paraphrase

Nscale, OpenAI and NVIDIA are together establishing Stargate UK, designed to deploy OpenAI’s technology in the UK; Cobalt Park will form part of the newly designated AI Growth Zone in the North East.

Location in source paragraph 4

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Nscale
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 0ed575206c677a25b438171a86990da09fd960f7cfcfedcc635a7ef8792a2333). Press release page as served on 2026-10-28; dateline "LONDON, UK, Sep 16, 2025, 10:30 PM BST". OpenAI's "Introducing Stargate UK" post refuses direct retrieval. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 0ed575206c677a25b438171a86990da09fd960f7cfcfedcc635a7ef8792a2333, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Nscale, “Nscale announces UK AI infrastructure commitment in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI”, 2025-09-16.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor. An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A party announced a data-centre site, campus or other infrastructure, dated by the announcement. An announcement is not construction, operation, ownership or a contract.

Date. Date of the announcement, as the source gives it.

Record ID cpo-dc-stargate-uk-established