On September 17th, NVIDIA, working with Nscale and CoreWeave, willU.K.investUp to £11.1 billion (note: current exchange rate is about £106,712 million) to build artificial intelligenceAIThe factory. The plan involves the largest AI deployment in British history and aims to deploy up to 120,000 British Blackwell Graphic Processors (GPUs) to local data centres by the end of 2026。
This cooperation was announced three months after the meeting between Jensen Huang, Chief Executive Officer of England, and the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, aimed at supporting Britain’s development goals of autonomous artificial intelligence and creating new jobs and boosting economic growth. Specifically, this investment is part of the British AI Action Opportunities Plan. The completed data centre will support mainstream artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI ' s GPT-5, which will contribute to innovation and growth in various economic areas。
This week is known as the “superweek” in the UK's AI investment field, and on the same day that Britain announced its investment plan, Google and Microsoft announced that they would invest £5 billion and £30 billion, respectively, in the UK to boost local AI industry。
MICROSOFT ANNOUNCED THAT $30 BILLION WOULD BE INVESTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (AT A CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE OF APPROXIMATELY $21,3.335 BILLION) FOR AI INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATION. THIS IS THE LARGEST FINANCIAL COMMITMENT TO BRITAIN SO FAR. TWO YEARS AGO, MICROSOFT ANNOUNCED AN INVESTMENT OF $3.2 BILLION IN BRITISH AI INFRASTRUCTURE。
It is known that Chief Executive Officer Wong In-hoon and Chief Executive Officer OpenAI Sam Altman will accompany President Trump on his second official State visit to the United Kingdom。