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Julie from Colchester, on the nose.

And Howard from Loughton, you're on the nose with it.

You've got it right.

Here's the longer version.

Microsoft pulled out of Nscale's planned Essex AI data center over power delays.

Microsoft ended its involvement in Nscale's planned £2 billion Loughton site after Nscale was told grid power won't arrive until the 2030s.

Nscale says it remains committed and is exploring alternative power sources.

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Microsoft has pulled out of a UK data center deal with Nscale, the British Neocloud firm said, marking a setback for the startup's initial public offering hopes.

Nscale didn't provide a specific reason for why the US tech giant had pulled the plug on the deal in Loughton, Essex, which has been contending with delays due to power constraints.

Nscale's flagship site in Norway is also six months behind schedule.

Bloomberg has reported, with only 6.4 megawatts of the intended 30 megawatt data center up and running.

Today, we focus on a major development in the AI infrastructure landscape.

Microsoft has withdrawn as the anchor tenant for Nscale's planned AI data center in Loughton, Essex.

This decision, first reported by The Telegraph, has raised eyebrows across the industry.

That's right, the withdrawal stems from concerns about power supply.

UK power networks informed InScale that it can't provide the necessary electricity to the Loughton site until the early to mid-2030s.

This delay means the data centre would face a multi-year wait before it could become operational.

With Microsoft stepping back, Nscale has lost its only publicly announced customer for the Lauten site.

On to the money, where a country has figured out how to sell everything and buy nothing, and a few others are building very expensive sheds.

The BBC reports that Microsoft has pulled out of the planned N-scale AI data centre in Loughton, Essex, after the site was told its grid connection will not arrive until the 2030s.

Power was due at the end of this year.

Nscale announced the project last year as the UK's largest AI data centre, with £2 billion behind it.

Reuters also reported the withdrawal, citing The Telegraph.

Nscale says it remains committed to the Loughton site and is exploring alternative power sources.

The BBC reports that grid power, originally due at the end of this year, is now expected in the 2030s.

Nscale says that grid problem does not affect its other Microsoft contracts.

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And I noticed over the weekend as well that Microsoft pulled out of basically are no longer going to be N scales like anchor tenant at that, um, at that big big site under development in Loughton, in Essex, which again, now, as I understand it, I think that power was the issue.

But, you know, you're just like, Microsoft are just looking for an excuse to pull out of these deals now, which again is not, it's not a great sign.

It's not going to indicate it.

The most important data center story this weekend may not be CoreWeave.

Microsoft reportedly pulled out of an agreement to take computing capacity from Nscale's planned data center in Loughton, England.

The facility was intended to support roughly 23,000 NVIDIA chips and approximately 50 megawatts of capacity.

The issue was not a lack of enthusiasm for artificial intelligence.