Portugal will launch an AI-focused data center strategy and a sovereign cloud, with pre-licensed zones to speed builds. Agencies should prep workloads, security, and buying now. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM— 5 May 2026 — Nscale is announcing an expansion of its collaboration with Microsoft and Start Campus with 66,000+ NVIDIA Rubin GPUs, starting in late 2027. Portugal will adopt a national strategy for data centres focused on artificial intelligence, alongside a national. Microsoft has announced plans to invest $10 billion in AI data centers in Sines, Portugal. As reported by local newspaper Jornal de Negócios, the data centers are being developed in partnership with Start Campus and Nscale.