Nscale buys AI infrastructure optimization startup Anyscale for reported $1.65B
UPDATED 21:30 EDT / JULY 30 2026
Data center builder Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today announced plans to acquire Anyscale Inc., a venture-backed provider of artificial intelligence software.
Deal terms were not disclosed. Bloomberg cited a source saying Nscale is paying 2 billion from a consortium that included Nvidia Corp. and other major tech firms.
Nscale
London-based Nscale is building a network of AI data centers spanning a half-dozen countries. Flagship development: 2,250-acre campus in Mason County, West Virginia with its own miniature power grid; company estimates theoretical capacity of more than eight gigawatts. Nscale provides managed Kubernetes and Slurm for cluster automation.
Anyscale / Ray
Anyscale launched in 2019; commercializes open-source Ray (created by founding team) for optimizing large-scale AI clusters — fault tolerance (auto-replace failed servers), colocating models and datasets to reduce bandwidth, managed Ray cloud clusters launchable in under a minute, monitoring dashboards.
Deal rationale
Nscale expects to close by year’s end. Plans to offer Anyscale’s software alongside internally developed infrastructure optimization tools.
CEO Josh Payne: “We build and own every layer ourselves: the power, the data centers, the compute, and the software that turns them into an AI cloud. Anyscale extends that offering with managed services that AI teams use to scale any workload, completing a truly vertically integrated AI cloud platform.”