Nscale, a UK-based 'unicorn' (calling it ‘home-grown’ is questionable) was incorporated in May 2024. They have never built a data centre. They've acquired a data centre in Norway, started another, and all the rest are planned (according to datacentermap.com/c/nscale-ltd). Yet they're apparently a key player in the UK's 'sovereign AI' strategy. How??? They don't publish any environmental impact data and their 'transparency' email address doesn't work. I know because I just tried to ask about their projected water consumption for the Loughton data centre (which doesn't exist yet) and got a bounce-back. I estimate ~2 mil litres per day, but I'm not an engineer, just using a shared formula, and wanted to hear their favourable estimate. I wonder if it was ever considered during the planning application. How exactly does their timeline translate to "deep expertise"? How have they convinced everyone to treat them like an inevitable force of nature? #nscale #ai #uk #uk_politics