NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) announced partnerships to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United Kingdom, with companies including CoreWeave, Microsoft and Nscale planning to invest up to £11 billion by the end of 2026.
The investment will deploy up to 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across UK data centers, which the company describes as the largest AI infrastructure rollout in the country’s history. NVIDIA also announced it will enable UK cloud partner Nscale to scale globally with 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs worldwide, including up to 60,000 GPUs in the UK.
Nscale, OpenAI and NVIDIA plan to establish Stargate UK, featuring NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs in Nscale’s UK data centers by 2026. OpenAI expects to use this infrastructure to serve its models, including GPT-5.
"The United Kingdom is building the infrastructure for the AI industrial revolution — advancing science, transforming industries and creating new economic opportunities," said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the announcements represent "a decisive step towards the U.K. becoming a world leader in AI, meaning more jobs and investment, more money in people’s pockets and transformed public services."
Microsoft and Nscale announced plans to build what they call the UK’s most powerful supercomputer in Loughton, expected to feature more than 24,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs for Microsoft Azure services. CoreWeave announced it will establish a data center in Scotland with Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs powered by renewable energy.
NVIDIA also announced quantum computing initiatives, including partnering with Oxford Quantum Circuits to build a quantum-GPU AI supercomputing center. The company is collaborating with techUK to launch a research and development hub for AI and robotics, working with training provider QA to develop workforce skills.
The announcement follows a collaboration between Starmer and Huang announced at London Tech Week three months earlier.
