£11bn investment to transform economy
NVIDIA and the UK government have unveiled sweeping plans to build the nation’s largest-ever AI infrastructure rollout, aiming to spark a new wave of innovation, jobs and economic growth.
The announcement, made three months after Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang launched a collaboration at London Tech Week, will see partners including CoreWeave, Microsoft and Nscale invest up to £11 billion in “AI factories” across the country. These will include 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs in local data centres, supporting OpenAI’s Stargate UK and wider sovereign AI goals.
Quantum and cloud expansion
The rollout includes plans for Nscale and Microsoft to build the UK’s most powerful supercomputer in Loughton, featuring 24,000 GPUs, and for CoreWeave to open a renewable-powered data centre in Scotland. BlackRock has also pledged £500 million to modernise UK data centres to be “NVIDIA-ready”.
NVIDIA is further deepening ties with Oxford Quantum Circuits, Imperial College London, and the University of Edinburgh to strengthen the UK’s quantum ecosystem, combining GPU and quantum computing for breakthroughs in science and industry.
Boosting jobs and skills
Starmer said the initiative would make Britain “a world leader in AI”, bringing jobs, investment and stronger public services. Huang called the UK’s mix of research talent, universities and industries a “Goldilocks ecosystem” to thrive in the AI age.
NVIDIA is also working with techUK and QA to expand AI and robotics skills training, giving UK developers and businesses access to NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute and DGX Cloud.
The moves come as President Donald Trump begins his UK state visit, with both nations highlighting AI as central to their transatlantic tech partnership.
