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Loughton

Loughton is a tracked AI data center campus in Essex, Loughton. nscale's first proprietary UK data center per Wikipedia, scheduled available Q1 2027. Listed on data-centers page.

Under construction · Nscale · Loughton, Essex, United Kingdom

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Capacity: announced vs energized

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Contracted
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Under construction
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Energized
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Loughton capacity claims
Source

Key facts

under construction

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Nscale

Developer

United Kingdom

Location

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In clusterEssex(3)

The deal

developer
Nscale

Power

Power source
grid
Interconnection

Why here

Loughton is in Essex, Loughton. It draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

UK Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) Code Publicationstandard · 2026-07-01 · United Kingdom
UK Self-Driving Liability and Licensing Regimestandard · 2026-01-01 · United Kingdom

Sources

308baf4c-f91b-4d89-8e6f-3c91626ba4d8 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

Loughton vs Loughton II →Loughton vs BT-owned UK sites →Loughton vs Monarch Compute Campus →Loughton vs Narvik →Loughton vs Texas campus →

Common questions

What is Loughton?
Loughton is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Loughton. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Loughton?
Nscale is recorded as a party to Loughton on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Loughton operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Loughton is under construction. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Loughton?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Loughton: AI data center campus record. Retrieved August 28, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/nscale-loughton

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