ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's 2025 revenue via Norway data center access to Nvidia B200 chips
ByteDance, through its Singapore subsidiary Spring, accessed 2,304 Nvidia B200 AI chips at Nscale’s Glomfjord, Norway data center in May 2025, enabling use of restricted U.S. technology despite export controls. This arrangement, backed by a $105 million Macquarie loan and $35 million in equity, accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale’s $33 million revenue in 2025, though ByteDance was not named in…
Key points
- ByteDance’s subsidiary Spring used 2,304 Nvidia B200 chips at Nscale’s Norway data center via a $105M Macquarie loan and $35M equity.
- ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale’s $33M 2025 revenue but was omitted from the main S-1 IPO filing.
- Nscale expects ByteDance’s revenue share to drop below 20% as its deals with Microsoft and Anthropic grow.
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China's ByteDance gained access to over 2,000 Nvidia B200 chips through Norway data center
Tom's Hardware · 23 September 2026
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3sources- Hacker News discussion · 10 pointsnews.ycombinator.com
- Nvidia-backed Nscale keeps its biggest customer, Bytedance, out of its IPO filingPress · The Decoder ·
- Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chipsPress · ft.com ·
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