ByteDance Subsidiary Gains Access to 2,304 Nvidia B200 GPUs
Spring used Nscale’s Norway data center for GPU computing capacity, contributing about $24 million to Nscale’s 2025 revenue of roughly $33 million.
ByteDance subsidiary Spring gained access to 2,304 Nvidia B200 GPUs through U.K. artificial-intelligence cloud provider Nscale, using computing capacity located at a data center in Norway.
The GPUs are installed at Nscale’s Glomfjord facility, allowing Spring to use GPU computing resources through Nscale rather than having the chips exported directly to China. Spring is based in Singapore, where its legal name is Spring (SG) Pte Ltd.
The arrangement made Spring a major contributor to Nscale’s business. Spring contributed about $24 million in revenue to Nscale in 2025, accounting for more than 73% of the cloud provider’s roughly $33 million in total revenue.
Nscale is preparing for a potential initial public offering in the United States. The company plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker NSCL as it raises capital for GPU infrastructure and data center expansion.
The structure highlights a regulatory question for advanced AI computing. Renting capacity at a foreign data center differs from shipping chips directly to China, while still raising questions about chip ownership, where computing services are provided and who ultimately uses the systems under U.S. export-control rules.
The case also shows how overseas data centers can provide access to high-end AI hardware without the equipment being delivered directly to a Chinese site. Whether that model remains available will depend on how export-control rules address computing services, end users and the location of the hardware.
