BT commissions Nscale, Rackspace to advance UK ‘sovereign’ AI ambitions

Joe Purnell2026-04-23T10:49:00

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Group expands its Sovereign Platform product suite and builds up the underlying AI data centre capacity via deals with Nscale, NVIDIA, and Rackspace Technologies.

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Themes: AI data centres; Data sovereignty; Generative AI infrastructure; Hybrid cloud services; Modular data centres; Research commercialisation; Sovereign cloud; Sovereign platform; Telco–hyperscaler partnerships.
People: Allison Kirkby; Arno van Huyssteen; Gabriela Styf Sjöman; Jon James; Kanishka Narayan; Katie Milligan; Mark Toman; Tom Burke.
Geographic: Australia; Germany; Málaga; Spain; United Kingdom.
Organisations: Arker; Arkon Energy; BT; BT Business; BT International; Dell Technologies; Deutsche Telekom T.Capital; Emtelle; NVIDIA; Nscale; Rackspace Technology; Synthotech Group.

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