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Silicon Valley comes to the UK

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18.09.2025
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American tech giants ramp up AI investments in UK

Top U.S. tech firms, including Microsoft, Nvidia and Google, have unveiled billions of dollars’ worth of new artificial intelligene (AI) investments in the United Kingdom amid President Trump’s state visit.

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Microsoft announced Tuesday that it plans to invest $30 billion in AI infrastructure and operations in Britain over the next four years, part of which will go toward building the nation’s largest supercomputer.

Nvidia said it and several infrastructure partners, including Nscale and CoreWeave, would be pouring up to £11 billion, or about $15 billion, into AI factories in the U.K.

This will include up to 120,000 of Nvidia’s most advanced chips, which will help power the newly unveiled Stargate U.K.

OpenAI announced the AI infrastructure partnership with Nvidia and Nscale on Tuesday, modeled after similar efforts in the United States and United Arab Emirates.

Stargate U.K. will ensure the firm’s “world-leading AI models can run on local computing power,” it explained in a blog post.

Meanwhile, Google said it would be investing £5 billion, or about $6.8 billion, in the country over the next two years.

The flurry of tech investments came as Trump traveled to........

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