--- title: Brit rent-a-GPU biz Nscale picks up $2B, hires Nick Clegg description: UK-based GPU cloud provider Nscale has closed a $2 billion Series C funding round, valuing the company at $14.6 billion. The round was led by Aker ASA and 8090... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/brit-rent-a-gpu-biz-nscale-picks-up-2b-hires-nick-clegg-je0unckx8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Brit rent-a-GPU biz Nscale picks up $2B, hires Nick Clegg | daily.dev og:description: UK-based GPU cloud provider Nscale has closed a $2 billion Series C funding round, valuing the company at $14.6 billion. The round was led by Aker ASA and 8090... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/brit-rent-a-gpu-biz-nscale-picks-up-2b-hires-nick-clegg-je0unckx8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jE0UNcKX8.png og:image:alt: Brit rent-a-GPU biz Nscale picks up $2B, hires Nick Clegg og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Brit rent-a-GPU biz Nscale picks up $2B, hires Nick Clegg **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary UK-based GPU cloud provider Nscale has closed a $2 billion Series C funding round, valuing the company at $14.6 billion. The round was led by Aker ASA and 8090 Industries, with participation from Dell, Lenovo, and Nvidia. Alongside the funding, Nscale announced three high-profile board appointments: former British deputy PM and ex-Meta policy chief Nick Clegg, former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg, and former Yahoo president Susan Decker. Nscale also confirmed it will fully absorb its joint venture with Aker, previously known as Stargate Norway, which aims to deploy 100,000 Nvidia GPUs for OpenAI by end of 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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