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title: "Stargate UK (Nscale; OpenAI; Microsoft; NVIDIA), Cobalt Park and prospective UK sites — campus ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-uk
description: "Stargate UK: never dated. 0 MW evidenced, end of August 2026 reading; no dated promise."
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# Stargate UK (Nscale; OpenAI; Microsoft; NVIDIA), Cobalt Park and prospective UK sites

Nscale; OpenAI; Microsoft; NVIDIA

Stargate UK (Nscale, OpenAI, Microsoft and NVIDIA; Cobalt Park and prospective UK sites) has no dated promise on the record; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load. The book’s verdict: never dated.

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Announced or estimated (IT load) not on file

Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026 0 MW

The book’s verdict Never dated

The ledger’s reading is the end of August 2026: the promises and the states as they stood then. Each row’s evidence carries its own date, printed on it.

The promise and the record, on one line. The book’s verdict: **Never dated**.

- Evidence read 9 April 2026
- Today Nov 2026

## The announcement

**Announced or estimated capacity (IT load):** not on file

**Where the announcement was read:** [openai.com](https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uk/)

**When it was read:** 16 September 2025

## The promise

**What was promised:** none

## At the close of the record

**Evidenced power (IT load), end of August 2026:** 0 MW

**Where the evidence was read:** [cnbc.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/09/openai-halts-uk-stargate-project.html)

**When it was read:** 9 April 2026

**The book’s verdict:** Never dated

## The book’s note

No MW figure. The announcement spoke of exploring up to 8,000 GPUs in Q1 2026; the August 2026 compilation’s table of promised dates rules that an exploration, not a first-power undertaking, and assigns no clock, so ‘never dated’ here means no scorable commitment. On hold since 9 Apr 2026; chapter 12 lists it under Retreats.

## Also

**Who is involved:**

- developer [Nscale](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/nscale)
- partner [OpenAI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/openai)
- partner [Microsoft](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/microsoft)
- partner [NVIDIA](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/nvidia)

## Filings that bear on it

- [Nscale Ltd, Form S-1 registration statement, filed 18 September 2026](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/nscale-s1-sep26) Nscale’s registration statement says OpenAI withdrew from Stargate Norway and Stargate UK in April 2026, Microsoft taking the extra Norway capacity, and records Anthropic agreements worth up to about $44.6 billion, subject to delivery and availability terms.

## Campuses near it in the ledger

- [Stargate UAE](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-uae) shares 2 parties
- [Stargate Norway](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-norway) shares 2 parties
- [PORTS-Pike](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/ports-pike) shares a party
- [Fairwater Wisconsin](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/fairwater-wisconsin) shares a party
- [Stargate Doña Ana / Project Jupiter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-dona-ana-project-jupiter) shares a party
- [Stargate Shackelford / Frontier](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/stargate-shackelford-frontier) shares a party

## Questions about this campus

**Is Stargate UK energized?:** Stargate UK (Nscale, OpenAI, Microsoft and NVIDIA; Cobalt Park and prospective UK sites) has no dated promise on the record; at the end-of-August 2026 reading the public record evidences 0 MW of IT load. The book’s verdict: never dated.

**When was Stargate UK promised to be energized?:** The record holds no dated promise for Stargate UK.

**Who is building Stargate UK?:** Nscale (developer), OpenAI (partner), Microsoft (partner), NVIDIA (partner).

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- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
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- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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