World tech agency NVIDIA will inject as a lot as £11bn into the British AI sector, months after chief government Jensen Huang criticised the UK’s restricted infrastructure.
Introduced on Tuesday night alongside the arrival of President Trump within the UK, NVIDIA is rising its place as a serious associate and benefactor of Britain’s AI ambitions.
A bunch of bulletins have come from US tech corporations through the week of Trump’s go to, together with knowledge centre and AI infrastructure investments from the likes of CoreWeave, Microsoft and OpenAI.
The majority of those plans might be executed in partnership with NVIDIA, which can provide its chips to energy the brand new infrastructure.
“That is the most important single funding by a know-how organisation within the UK,” stated NVIDIA vice chairman for enterprise EMEA David Hogan.
“We’re enabling our companions to deploy 300,000 GPUs globally, and 60,000 of these might be within the UK. Along with CoreWeave, that totals 120,000 GPUs deployed right here by the tip of 2026.”
Earlier this yr at London Tech Week, Huang shared a stage with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Funding Minister Poppy Gustafsson the place he described the UK as an ideal place for the AI trade, however criticised its lack of infrastructure.
“[The UK is] simply lacking one factor: it’s shocking that is the most important AI ecosystem on the planet with out its personal infrastructure, which is the explanation why we’re speaking about it a lot,” Huang stated.
