Post-Cutoff

“Billions of pounds lost on a single project because we can’t connect it to the grid…”

Sam Bowman @s8mbX

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Billions of pounds lost on a single project because we can’t connect it to the grid for half a decade and have destroyed our capacity to generate reliable electricity.

Quoting @jamestitcomb: Exclusive: Microsoft cancels UK data centre deal with Nscale. Comes just as Nscale hopes to pull off a $35 billion IPO https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/18/microsoft-axes-ai-deal-setback-uk-data-centre-pioneer/

Source: x.com/s8mb/status/2111727242602758343Archived 2026-10-18 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 57,806 views, 1,730 likes, 261 reposts, 45 replies (at fetch time)Media: image

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  1. Business 110 days after the cutoff

    Microsoft cancels its anchor-tenant deal for Nscale’s Loughton (Essex) AI data centre over grid delays, weeks before Nscale’s planned $35B IPO