Nscale’s recently announced collaborations with Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Caterpillar will deliver 1.35 gigawatts of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs at a flagship AI campus in West Virginia.
NSCALE AND MICROSOFT UNITE
Nscale has recently signed a letter of intent with global technology conglomerate Microsoft to construct and operate advanced artificial intelligence (AI) data center infrastructure. This will be used to host a large-scale graphics processing units (GPUs) deployment based on the latest generation of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs and other future technologies.
The deployment will be delivered across multiple sectors in early 2027, forming one of the world’s largest dedicated AI compute installations.
This collaboration follows Nscale’s recent acquisition of American Intelligence & Power Corporation, securing a 2,250-acre site on the Monarch Compute Campus (Monarch Campus) in Mason County, West Virginia.
This will be the first state-certified AI microgrid with a power runway scalable to over eight gigawatts (GW) in the US, making it a key enabler of Nscale’s innovative infrastructure launches.
The infrastructure blueprint between Nscale and Microsoft will operate under a long-term framework that includes an initial multi-year compute services term alongside a long-term data center lease structure.
This roll-out demonstrates the scale and strategic importance of the facility and positions the Monarch Campus to be a cornerstone facility for next-generation AI training and inference capacity in the US.
“Microsoft’s data center approach is to build the best global infrastructure informed by near-term and long-term demand.
“Our investments blend owned data centers, leased facilities, and strategic collaborations. This collaboration with Nscale and NVIDIA is an important step to deliver meaningful AI innovation to our customers,” shares Jonathan Tinter, President of Business Development and Ventures at Microsoft.
Nscale equally anticipates the collaboration and the importance it will have on the future AI landscape.
“This collaboration with Microsoft marks a pivotal milestone both for Nscale and the development of the Monarch Campus,” comments Josh Payne, Founder and CEO of Nscale.
“By integrating our specialized AI infrastructure with Microsoft’s global platform, we are creating a foundation for innovation that can scale alongside the most ambitious AI models in the world.”
A CRUCIAL TURNING POINT
Nscale’s strategic acquisition and forward-looking collaboration are timely, as AI is projected to drive a significant increase in data center demand, with reports suggesting that existing supply is constrained by the speed at which power and new capacity can be brought online.
The Monarch Campus will therefore be crucial to meeting rising demand, with the expansion capabilities of the site allowing Nscale to develop power capacity rapidly while supporting one of the largest and most anticipated AI compute deployments in the market.
“AI is becoming essential infrastructure for every industry,” says Nico Caprez, Vice President of Global AI Infrastructure Growth at NVIDIA.
“With this large-scale NVIDIA DSX AI Factory blueprint, Nscale is building the infrastructure required to produce intelligence at industrial scale and power the next wave of global innovation.”
The Monarch Campus is also being developed with local and environmental considerations in mind, as power will be generated on-site as the facility operates independently from the local grid.
Nscale is also prioritizing carbon sequestration to offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as utilizing high-efficiency design that consumes less water with no impact on the municipal water supply or residential users.
COLLABORATION WITH CATERPILLAR
Nscale is also proud to announce a strategic collaboration with Caterpillar.
Nscale will deploy the company’s G3500 series natural gas generator sets at sufficient scale to achieve two GW of power generation by the end of Q2 2028, powering the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design.
“This collaboration reflects Caterpillar’s and our dealers’ continued focus on supporting customers that require primary, continuous-duty power at scale through our broad energy solutions portfolio,” says Melissa Busen, Senior Vice President of Electric Power at Caterpillar.
“Projects like Monarch demonstrate how Caterpillar’s natural gas generation platforms are being deployed as core infrastructure for data centers and other power-intensive applications where reliability, speed of deployment, and lifecycle performance are critical.”
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