"The chip giant hailed £11 billion of total investment in the UK AI ecosystem, constituting chip orders and a rapid build-out of infrastructure such as AI factories. These are expected to serve enterprise compute demand, researchers, and consumers. The total is made up of investment from Nvidia partners Nscale and CoreWeave, with UK-based Nscale alone set to deploy 60,000 GB300 chips. As part of the deal, Nscale will deploy a total of 300,000 Blackwell GPUs worldwide with the US, UK, Norway, and Portugal named as areas of investment."
""The UK has a true Goldilocks opportunity," said David Hogan, VP for enterprise, EMEA at Nvidia. "We have the right conditions for rapid AI growth and innovation in the country. The only thing that's been missing is infrastructure. Today we are announcing that Nvidia is building new AI infrastructure to support strong, secure and sustainable economic growth across the UK and serve as a platform with groundbreaking research."
"This still places the UK behind the US, with OpenAI targeting a deployment of two million GPUs for its Oracle-backed Stargate project, Meta seeking multiple gigawatt data centers representing millions of GPUs, and xAI in the process of increasing its Colossus training cluster to 200,"
Nvidia will deploy 120,000 Blackwell GPUs in the UK by the end of 2026, creating Europe's largest GPU cluster and expanding sovereign compute capacity. The initiative is supported by £11 billion of investment covering chip orders and infrastructure such as AI factories to serve enterprise compute demand, researchers, and consumers. Investment comes from Nvidia partners Nscale and CoreWeave, with Nscale planning 60,000 GB300 chips in the UK and committing to 300,000 Blackwell GPUs globally across the US, UK, Norway, and Portugal. The build aims to provide the missing infrastructure for rapid, secure, and sustainable AI growth and research.
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