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Microsoft and Nvidia have discovered plans to invest up to $ 45 billion in the UK economy, in a movement that will strengthen the building of more data and research and development in artificial intelligence.
The investment comes as American President Donald Trump He travels to Britain, where he is expected to announce that Technical Offer of the US-UK next to the Prime Minister Keir Sarmmer.
As part of the agreement, Microsoft invested $ 30 billion in AI infrastructure in the next four years. The company claims that this is the greatest financial commitment that she has ever made in the UK and will be more than two thirds of the total investment announced in the UK this week, the Trump visit was temporal.
“We are focused on British pounds, not empty technical promises,” Brad Smith, Microsoft Vice President and President, journalists in Virtual Briefing today before the announcement. “We’ll be good for every cent of this investment.” Half of the money will cross the capital – “All new money, all new investments,” Smith claimed – Although the second half will go for efforts like partnerships with business work center, to finance and use their facilities.
Nvidia, for his part, obliged to spend up to $ 15 billion in AI and related to research research and development in the UK. The chimpač will not invest directly in the construction of infrastructure, instead of acting through its CoreveveAve and NSCALE partners.
This announcement comes along with a new joint investment than Nvidia, NSCALE and Openai, which plan to “strengthen sovereign in the UK) through AI infrastructure partnership called Stargate UK. The General Manager of Openai Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang traveled with Trump in the UK during his country visit this week.
“Stargate Great Britain provides Openai world leading models can work on local computer power in the UK, for the UK,” Openai said in the statement. Openai will in the first quarter of 2026. provide up to 8,000 GPUs with potential to scale at 31,000 GPUs over time. As part of the agreement, Openai says that NSCALE is set up to significantly expand its capacity over several locations in the UK, including the Kobalta Park in Newcup, which will be part of the newly built growth zone and in the northeast.
“This historical commitment of NSCALE shows that in the UK can build the future AI, together with our United States Partners,” said director of NSSHAE Paine in the statement. “It’s just the construction of AI world-class infrastructure that we will stay competitive in the global race.”
When prompted to characterize Microsoft’s relationship with NSCALE, Smith simply said, “We write check and spend money.”
Smith quickly claims that the company did not receive the request of the Trump administration to announce investment announcements. “We had a lot of conversations with the UK government, including people at number 10, as you would expect, and they last for months,” he said.
