Jurisdiction: United Kingdom
Langston Road, Loughton, Essex — 'the UK's largest AI supercomputer': 50MW scalable to 90MW; 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs (Q1 2027 delivery); facility live target Q4 2026; Microsoft anchor commitment under the Stargate UK umbrella (Nscale + OpenAI + Nvidia).
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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Narrative
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | Nscale AI Campus Loughton (Microsoft anchor / Stargate UK) | No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4). |
| Regulatory | staleness decay | -20 | Nscale AI Campus Loughton (Microsoft anchor / Stargate UK) | Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-09-18 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | Nscale AI Campus Loughton (Microsoft anchor / Stargate UK) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | staleness decay | -20 | Nscale AI Campus Loughton (Microsoft anchor / Stargate UK) | Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-09-18 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | Nscale AI Campus Loughton (Microsoft anchor / Stargate UK) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | Nscale AI Campus Loughton (Microsoft anchor / Stargate UK) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Announcement | Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-09-18). |
| Schedule | staleness decay | -25 | Nscale AI Campus Loughton (Microsoft anchor / Stargate UK) | Newest schedule evidence is 2025-09-18 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information). |
Announcement · Actual:
No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
Nscale · Sep 18, 2025 · backs: actual date, status
https://www.nscale.com/press-releases/nscale-uk-ai-infrastructure-announcement
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Nscale · relevance 0.70