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Nebius commits £1.7B to NVIDIA-powered UK AI cloud capacity

Nebius + NVIDIA + Kao Data + UK enterprise and research customers

Primary sourcePress release only2026-06-08
Deal structureAI cloud capacity buildout / NVIDIA infrastructure deployment
GeographyUnited Kingdom / London, Harlow, Park Royal and Greater Manchester
Infrastructure layersCloud capacity + chips / compute + data centers + cooling
Disclosed scaleApproximately £1.7B committed to UK AI-cloud capacity buildout across four sites, including three new NVIDIA infrastructure deployments that together with the first UK deployment are expected to reach 65 MW when fully ramped in 2027

Why it matters

The strategic read

Gives Nebius a source-backed UK capacity lane beside its U.S. and Finland AI-factory buildouts. The disclosed spend is large even though the near-term megawatt count is modest, and it puts NVIDIA Blackwell-era infrastructure, enterprise inference demand, UK sovereign-AI policy and specialist AI colocation into one European AI-cloud expansion package.

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What was disclosed

  1. 01

    Nebius announced on June 8, 2026 that it is investing approximately £1.7B to build out AI cloud capacity in the UK.

  2. 02

    The buildout covers four UK sites, including Nebius's first UK NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra deployment launched in November 2025 and three new NVIDIA infrastructure deployments.

  3. 03

    Nebius said the combined deployments will reach 65 MW when fully ramped up in 2027.

  4. 04

    The new sites will deploy the latest generations of NVIDIA full-stack, end-to-end AI factory platform technology.

  5. 05

    AIwire / Kao Data reported on June 9 that Nebius chose Kao Data's Harlow campus for a 22 MW, 10-year AI infrastructure deployment.

  6. 06

    The Harlow deployment will host Nebius AI Cloud and Nebius Token Factory capacity, including production-scale inference infrastructure.

  7. 07

    Kao Data said the Harlow campus is powered by 100% renewable energy, uses HVO-backed generators and will use direct-to-chip liquid cooling in KLON-03.

  8. 08

    Nebius named UK customer demand including Revolut production AI workloads and companies supported by the UK Sovereign AI Fund.

  9. 09

    Nebius also said it is expanding its commercial and AI R&D presence in London.

  10. 10

    Kao Data said it has more than 237 MW of IT load operational, under development or planned across its AI and advanced-computing data-center portfolio.

Disclosure boundary

What is known—and what is not

Primary Nebius announcement plus Kao Data / AIwire near-primary deployment detail. Public details disclose the aggregate UK investment amount, four-site footprint, 65 MW fully ramped 2027 capacity target, NVIDIA infrastructure scope, Harlow 22 MW / 10-year deployment, customer examples and high-level sustainability/cooling design. Public materials do not disclose full site list economics, GPU counts, lease or colocation pricing, power-supply contracts, detailed construction budgets, financing mix, delivery milestones by site, customer capacity allocations or termination rights.