LONDON, Oct. 19 -- Microsoft has walked away from a planned AI data center at Loughton, Essex, Gizmodo and CoinDesk reported on Monday. The British government billed the site in September 2025 as home to the country's largest supercomputer.

The site belongs to Nscale, the London-based AI cloud company whose New York IPO filing TEH reported in September. Gizmodo, citing the Telegraph, said Microsoft was the key client at Loughton, renting capacity on 23,000 Nvidia chips. In a statement Gizmodo quoted, Microsoft said it remains committed to its partnership with Nscale and that "This decision relates to a single site."

Nscale says its other Microsoft contracts remain in place, CoinDesk reported. They are large. The company's registration s...