Compute · the Ledger · Loan against chips
Macquarie lends Nscale $105M to buy GPU cluster equipment for its Glomfjord, Norway data center
Signed · announced 18 Sept 2026 · the week to 18 Sept 2026
- Size
- $105M
$105M term loan and letter-of-credit facility
The parties
- Nscalecompany pageBorrower
- Macquarie BankLender
The source
Nscale Form S-1, filed 2026-09-18Regulatory filing
Senior facility agreement of June 2025 with Macquarie: $105.0M term loan and letter-of-credit facility to finance technology equipment for a GPU cluster at Glomfjord, Norway. $70.1M drawn 2025-08-01; remaining $34.9M drawn 2026-01-30. Macquarie received warrants valued at $6.3M, converted into Series B preferred shares at the Series B close. Amended and restated 2025-09-22 (Exhibit 10.12). Rate not stated in the passage read.
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