US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push
Microsoft and NVIDIA have unveiled plans to invest up to $ 45 billion dollars in the UK economy, in a movement that will confide more data centers (odds and development artificial intelligence.
The investment comes as US President Donald Trump Travel to Britain, where he is expected to be announced a US-UK Tech Deal beside UK Prime Pinsiness Keir Starmer.
As part of the agreement, Microsoft has committed to invest $ 30 billion in AI infrastructure over the next four years. The company claims that this is the greatest financial devotion, it has ever announced in the UK and will announce more than two thirds of the submission in the UK this week, timed to Trump's visit.
“We are focused on British pound, not low Tech Fucking,” Brad Smith, Microsoft's Vice chair and president, journalist in a virtual briefing for the announcement today. “We will be good for every cent of this investment.” Half of the money will go to capital extension – “All new investments,” Smitcy ', who will go for efforts such as a collaborative company, to finance and use his facilities.
NvidiaFor his part is pounds to spend up to $ 15 billion on AI-related R & D-efforts in the UK. The chipmaker will not invest immediately to build out the infrastructure, rather than act by his partners by his partners Coreweave and NSCale.
This announcement comes next to a new joint venture next to NVIDIA, NVIDIA, and opening today, which plans to “strengthen the UK's sovereign calculus” through An AI infrastructure partnership called Stargate UK. Openai Ceo Sam Altman and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang traveled with Trump to the UK in the UK, visit this week.
“Stargate UK ensures that Opena leading AI models can run on local calculation power in the UK, for the United Kingdom,” said open. Openai will provide up to 8,000 GPUs in the first quarter of 2026 with the potential to scale up to 31,000 GPUs over time. As part of the agreement says that NSCALE is set his capacity in the UK in the UK, including cobbler design in the northeast.
“This historical commitment of how the UK can build the future of AI, together with our partners, said, it is only the world's building that we will remain competitive in the global race.”
Then prompted to characterize the relationship of Microsoft with Nscale, Smith Sim, “We write the control, and they spend the money.”
Smith was quick to argue that the company did not receive a request from the Trump administration to make an investment announcement. “We've had a lot of calls with the UK government, including with people on number 10, as you would expect, and that did you do.”
