Microsoft and Nvidia I presented plans to invest up to $ 45 billion in a British economy, in traffic that will strengthen the construction of more data centers, as well as research and development of artificial intelligence.
The investment appears when US President Donald Trump travels to Great Britain, where he is expected to announce a US-UK technical agreement with the prime minister of Great Britain Keir Starmer.
Under the agreement, Microsoft has undertaken to invest $ 30 billion in AI infrastructure in the next four years. The company claims that this is the largest financial commitment he has ever made in Great Britain and constitutes over two -thirds of the total investment announced in Great Britain this week, the date of Trump’s visit.
“We focus on British pounds, not empty technological promises,” said Brad Smith, vice -chairman and president of Microsoft, in a virtual briefing before today’s advertisement. “We will be good for every cent from this investment.” Half of the money will be allocated to the expansion of capital – “all new money, all new investments”, said Smith, while the other half will try like a partnership from the Data Center Business NSLACE to finance and utilize its facilities.
For its part, NVIDIA undertook to spend up to $ 15 billion on research and development activities related to AI in Great Britain. The chipmaker will not invest directly in building infrastructure, instead acting through their partners Coreweave and NSLACE.
This advertisement is today together with the up-to-date joint undertaking of NVIDIA, NSCALE and OPENAI, which plans to “strengthen sovereign computational possibilities in Great Britain” AI infrastructure partnership called Stargate UK. Openai General Director, Altman himself and the general director of NVIDIA, Jensen Huang, traveled with Trump to Great Britain during their state visit this week.
“Stargate UK assures that the leading AI OpenAI global models can operate on the local computer power in Great Britain,” Opeli said in a statement. Openai will provide up to 8,000 GPU in the first quarter of 2026, with time potentially scaling up to 31,000 GPU. As part of the OPENAI agreement, NSCale is to significantly augment its capacity in many places in Great Britain, including Cobalt Park in Newcastle, which will be part of the newly designated AI growth zone in the northeast.
“This historical commitment with NSCale shows how Great Britain can build the future of artificial intelligence, along with our US partners,” said NSCALE CEO Josh Payne in a statement. “Only thanks to building world -class AI infrastructure will we be competitive in the global race.”
Asked to characterize Microsoft’s relationship with NSCALE, Smith simply said: “We write a check and spend money.”
Smith quickly claimed that the company did not receive the request of Trump’s administration for an investment. “We had many conversations with the UK government, including people to number 10, as you can expect, and these have been going on for months,” he said.