neocloud · kubernetes · Layer 2.5
Nscale
European AI workloads with a sustainability requirement written into procurement.
high portability Portable. The workload is standard enough to move to another vendor without a rewrite.
What you are buying
- Business model
- Purpose-built GPU cloud. Owns or leases its own datacentre capacity and sells it directly.
- How you reach it
- You get a cluster. Assumes you already run Kubernetes at scale.
- Accelerators
- H100, H200, B200, MI300X
- Regions
- Norway, UK, EU
- Pricing model
- On-demand and reserved.
- Getting started
- Sales-led with self-serve options.
- Capacity
- Nordic hydro-powered sites are the anchor.
- Ownership
- Private.
Verified 2026-09-09. Fields reading “not published” are exactly that — we do not estimate a figure a vendor withholds.
The counterparty
Private and young. Diligence accordingly.
A multi-year GPU commitment is a credit decision wearing a cloud contract. This is the section no benchmark covers and the one that decides what happens to your workload in 2028.
The catch
Nordic siting means excellent power economics and real latency to anywhere that is not Northern Europe.
The economics
Hydro power and free cooling are a structural cost advantage, not a marketing line. It shows up in reserved pricing.
No rate is quoted on this page on purpose. Published list prices at this layer move weekly and essentially nobody signing a real contract pays them. Dated, sourced figures live in the GPU rental price index, where the spread between the cheapest and dearest seller of the identical chip runs to roughly 9x.
The layers underneath this one
Whatever you rent here is a chip in a building that needs power. In 2026 megawatts, not silicon, are the binding constraint on the whole industry — a frontier rack draws 120–200 kW against a 2026 average near 27 kW, and the US interconnection queue exceeds 2,600 GW.
Layer 2 — Silicon · Layer 1 — Energy · The interconnection queue · Tokens per watt
Compared against
- Nebius vs Nscale — Two European builds, one public and one private, both selling sovereignty.Compare with Nebius
- Nscale vs DataCrunch — Nordic power economics at two very different scales.Compare with DataCrunch
- Genesis Cloud vs Nscale — Renewable Nordic compute at boutique and at industrial scale.Compare with Genesis Cloud