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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aisha Down

British AI datacentre firm Nscale raises $2bn as Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg join board

A person is holds a smartphone with the webpage of company Nscale on the screen
Nscale has datacentres across the US and Europe, including the UK, Portugal, Norway and Iceland. Photograph: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy

Nscale, a UK company vital to the government’s AI ambitions, has raised $2bn (£1.5bn) in a funding round and appointed the former Meta executives Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board of directors.

It brings the valuation of the London-based startup, which is backed by the US tech company Nvidia, to $14.6bn, it said in a statement, and follows a $1.1bn funding round the company raised last September.

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