Another domino falls.Microsoft just pulled out of a massive datacenter deal with Nscale in the UK, taking out up to 40% ...

Another domino falls.Microsoft just pulled out of a massive datacenter deal with Nscale in the UK, taking out up to 40% of Nscale’s potential contractual income (the article doesn’t state how much the UK contract was worth)…just in time for Nscale’s IPO. Microsoft’s reason for cancelling the deal was that Nscale couldn’t get enough power plants to be built in time to power its UK data center, but that could just be the justification Microsoft decided to offer up for its foregone decision to bail.#ai https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/18/microsoft-axes-ai-deal-setback-uk-data-centre-pioneer/