AI Data Center List

Start Campus Sines (Nscale / Microsoft)

AI data center in Sines, Setúbal, Portugal, operated by Nscale.

Start Campus's 1.2 GW SINES campus on Portugal's Atlantic coast. In Q1 2026 Nscale deployed 12,600 Nvidia GB300 GPUs here for Microsoft, the EU's first GB300s.

Live power
33MW 3 Epoch AI estimate, as of 2026-08-16
Planned power
1,200MW 1 Company
Status
Operational First power 2026
Accelerators
12,600 Stated by the company

Power: what each source says

1.2 GW full-campus plan (Start Campus factsheet). SIN01 in AI use from Q1 2026; Epoch AI estimates 33 MW IT as of 2026-08-16 and SIN02 (~200 MW more) operational ~2027-09 (estimate).

Figures labelled Epoch AI are estimates from satellite imagery, permits and filings. Company figures come from the operator, owner or its filings. IT power is what the servers draw; in Epoch AI’s figures for these campuses it runs about 15–35% below total facility power.

Tenants

Microsoft

Campus facts

Operator
Nscale 1
Owner / developer
Start Campus 1
City
Sines 1
State / region
Setúbal 1
Country
Portugal 1
First power
2026 1
Chips
NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 1
GPUs / accelerators
12,600 1
Cooling
liquid 1
Power source
grid 1
Coordinates
37.96° N, 8.87° W (town level)
Verified

Sources

  1. Start Campus hosts EU's first Nvidia GB300 chips with Nscale for Microsoft accessed 2026-11-09
  2. Start Campus: SINES accessed 2026-11-09
  3. Epoch AI, AI data centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0, updated 2026-11-06) (licence: CC BY 4.0) accessed 2026-11-09