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Nebius to lease data center capacity from Vantage in Newport, Wales
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AI cloud firm Nebius is to deploy capacity at Vantage Data Centers’ campus in Wales.
Key facts
- In June, Nebius announced plans to invest approximately £1.7 billion ($2.3bn) building out capacity across four sites in the UK
- Vantage’s CWL1 campus has been live since 2010, spanning three buildings and some 2 million sq ft (186,000 sqm)
- This is an important milestone for South Wales and for the UK’s AI infrastructure ambitions,” said David Howson, president, EMEA, Vantage Data Centers
- Vantage acquired the Newport site and its owner, NGD, in 2020
Summary
The companies this week announced an agreement to deploy high-density, Nvidia-powered AI infrastructure at Vantage’s CWL1 campus in Newport. Under the agreement, Nebius will lease high-density capacity at CWL1 to support AI training, inference, agentic AI, and enterprise AI workloads. The size of the deployment wasn’t shared, but will be based on Nvidia’s DSX AI factory reference design. Nebius, formed after Yandex separated its Russian and European operations, has a data center presence across the US, the Middle East, and Europe.