Nvidia says it will deploy 120,000 GPUs in the UK, including up to 60,000 Grace Blackwell Ultra chips with Nscale, in partnering OpenAI in a UK leg of the $500 billion Stargate project.
“Today marks a historic chapter in US-United Kingdom technology collaboration,” said CEO Jensen Huang. “We are at the Big Bang of the AI era — and the United Kingdom stands in a Goldilocks position, where world-class talent, research and industry converge.”
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said: “The UK has been a longstanding pioneer of AI, and is now home to world-class researchers, millions of ChatGPT users, and a government that quickly recognised the potential of this technology. Stargate UK builds on this foundation to help accelerate scientific breakthroughs, improve productivity, and drive economic growth.”
Microsoft said it will invest £22 billion to expand cloud and AI infrastructure as well as in the supercomputer, which will be in Loughton. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, said AI could boost the UK economy by 10% in the next 10 years. “It may happen faster, so our hope is not 10 years but maybe five.”
Google announced a £5 billion investment, including a new datacentre in 
Waltham Cross.
CoreWeave has put up £1.5 billion to fund energy-efficient datacentres in partnership with DataVita.
Salesforce is investing £1.4 billion to make the UK its AI hub for Europe, part of a £4.4 billion investment over the next five years
BlackRock announced a $700 million investment in UK datacentres via a joint venture with Digital Gravity Partners. a private equity company that specialises in investing in internet infrastructure.
