Nscale / Portugal

Nscale Sines / Start Campus

Nscale’s Sines deployment at Start Campus serves Microsoft, with a separate future Rubin expansion announced.

Operational

Sources checked

The release separates the existing Blackwell deployment from 66,000+ Rubin GPUs targeted from late 2027. The new 200 MW building and full 1.2 GW campus are not Nscale live capacity.

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Site evidence

Source per value
Operator GPU-cloud provider tied to this physical site.
Nscale 1
City / locality Source-named city, metro or locality. Null when only a county, state or dedicated regional facility is disclosed; no guessed city.
Sines 1
Country Country of the physical deployment.
Portugal 1
Evidence status Status supported by the cited evidence. An operational site may also have future expansion; target dates alone do not prove opening.
Operational 1
Facility / partner Named host, owner or development partner; role shown where stated.
Start Campus SINES 1
Disclosed power MW Read together with Power basis. This may be an IT lease, campus plan, facility capacity or a delivered phase; values must not be summed.
Not published
Power basis Scope, timing and qualification of the disclosed MW. Operational status does not imply all listed MW are live.
Not published
GPU platform Site-specific deployed or announced platform. Expansion and future deployment are explicitly marked.
NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra 1
Disclosed GPUs Published count, approximation or lower bound. Read GPU count basis for deployed versus planned scope.
12,600 1
GPU count basis Exact scope of the GPU count, including lower bounds and target years. Counts are not a current availability inventory.
Over 12,600 in the existing first-building deployment; lower bound 1
Interconnect Site-specific networking named in the source; no inference from a provider-wide offer.
Not published
Cooling Cooling design or installed method at the site; expansion scope retained where relevant.
Liquid cooling; campus uses seawater heat rejection 1
Evidence date Date of the cited status statement or reporting period. Null means an undated page; accessed dates remain in sources.
2026-05-05 1
Scope notes Research reconciliation, historical qualifications and unresolved delivery questions, with sources.
The release separates the existing Blackwell deployment from 66,000+ Rubin GPUs targeted from late 2027. The new 200 MW building and full 1.2 GW campus are not Nscale live capacity. 1
Locality latitude ° Open-Meteo / GeoNames locality centroid, rounded to four decimals. Not a facility coordinate.
37.956 2
Locality longitude ° Open-Meteo / GeoNames locality centroid, rounded to four decimals. Not a facility coordinate.
-8.87 2
State / region Source-disclosed state, province or county when the city is withheld.
Not published
Delivered MW MW Explicitly operating or delivered power, at the evidence date. Power basis defines IT, facility or phase scope. Null if not verified.
Not published
Planned / contracted MW MW Announced expansion or total contracted power; may include delivered phases. Read the power basis and notes; never sum with delivered MW.
Not published
Site scope Editorial classification from the cited operator/site evidence. General cloud presence does not assert site-level GPU inventory; historical projects are not active deployments.
GPU / AI deployment 1

Sources & access dates

  1. Nscale expands Sines deployment for Microsoft, 5 May 2026 accessed 2026-11-11
  2. Open-Meteo / GeoNames: Sines locality coordinates accessed 2026-11-11

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