From Newcastle to Nvidia: meet Australia’s newest data centre titan
Josh Payne counts Microsoft as his biggest customer and Jensen Huang as an investor and believer in his young company’s ambitions as a computing hyperscaler.
Josh Payne, Nscale’s chief executive, at the company’s offices in London last month. NYT
Jensen Huang came bearing gifts. The Nvidia chief executive had just announced a £500 million ($940 million) investment in Nscale, a British data centre company founded by Australian Joshua Payne.
But rather than sign a contract to mark the state of their partnership, Huang autographed a box containing a bottle of top-shelf Johnnie Walker Blue Label scotch.
Andrew TillettEurope correspondentAndrew Tillett is The Australian Financial Review’s correspondent for Europe, based in London. He was formerly foreign affairs and defence correspondent based in Canberra. Connect with Andrew on Facebook and Twitter. Email Andrew at andrew.tillett@afr.com
