VAST Data, the U.S.-based developer of the VAST AI Operating System, has entered a strategic partnership with European AI infrastructure company Nscale to build what both firms describe as one of the most advanced distributed AI cloud fabrics in the world.
The collaboration aims to integrate VAST’s data management platform into Nscale’s rapidly expanding GPU-powered cloud ecosystem, enabling enterprises to train, fine-tune, and deploy large-scale AI models across continents with improved speed, efficiency, and reliability.
The announcement comes as Nscale accelerates its growth across Europe and North America, with plans to scale its infrastructure to more than 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs globally. The company, founded with a mission to deliver vertically integrated AI cloud services, operates renewable-powered data centers and manages the full technology stack – from orchestration and observability software to high-performance networking and storage.
VAST Data’s technology sits at the heart of this architecture, providing a unified data layer that ensures consistent, high-speed access to information across regions. The VAST AI Operating System, built around a global namespace and designed for large-scale AI and high-performance computing, will allow Nscale to optimize GPU utilization and streamline data flow between distributed sites. By leveraging the NVIDIA Cloud Partner reference architecture, Nscale and VAST aim to offer enterprise customers a platform that supports the most demanding AI workloads, from model training to real-time inference.
“The future of AI will not be defined by raw compute alone, but by the strength of the foundations we build,” said Tom Burke, Chief Revenue Officer at Nscale. “That means infrastructure that can scale globally, operate responsibly, and deliver when it matters most. With VAST as one of our data layers, we can take on the complexity of hyperscale AI and make it seamless for our customers – putting rich data services at the center of the modern AI cloud.”
VAST Data Co-Founder Jeff Denworth framed the partnership as part of a broader industry shift toward sustainable, globally distributed AI infrastructure. “This is not just about building another cloud – it’s about creating the global fabric that will power the next generation of AI,” he said. “AI innovation is impossible without a data platform that can keep up. Together with Nscale, we are defining the model for hyperscale AI infrastructure and showing the world what the future looks like.”
The partnership would position Nscale as one of Europe’s most ambitious entrants in the hyperscale AI market, competing with U.S. cloud giants while emphasizing energy efficiency and sovereign data control. By combining renewable-powered facilities with high-density compute and a unified global data layer, Nscale aims to deliver performance and sustainability at scale – an increasingly critical balance for enterprise customers looking to operationalize AI responsibly.
For VAST Data, the collaboration underscores the growing importance of software-defined data management in AI ecosystems, where data locality and throughput are as vital as raw compute power. As enterprises seek to deploy larger and more complex AI models, the ability to manage, move, and process data efficiently across distributed environments is becoming a defining factor in competitive differentiation.
Both companies position the partnership as a step toward the “agentic AI” era – where AI systems will act autonomously across global networks. The infrastructure now being built, they argue, will form the backbone for that transformation, linking renewable-powered data centers, high-speed interconnects, and intelligent data systems into a single operational fabric.
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