NVIDIA, one of the world’s most prominent manufacturers of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), has announced that it is “accelerating the AI industrial revolution in the United Kingdom”. For this, it will be working with partners including CoreWeave, Microsoft and Nscale to build the nation’s next generation of AI infrastructure.
The announcement comes during U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom. NVIDIA says that the AI factories will scale up AI infrastructure in the U.K. with 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and up to £11 billion for local data centers.
In a press release, NVIDIA revealed, “By the end of 2026, the companies will build and operate AI factories that will serve leading AI models, including those from OpenAI, to enable the U.K.’s sovereign AI goals for building a platform to power innovation, growth and opportunity across the economy.”
Unveiled three months after U.K Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced a collaboration, this new infrastructure aims to “foster new job opportunities and support strong, secure and sustainable economic growth across the U.K, as well as serve as a platform for groundbreaking research in priority areas agreed in the U.K.-U.S. tech partnership, including medicine and drug discovery.”
“The United Kingdom is building the infrastructure for the AI industrial revolution — advancing science, transforming industries and creating new economic opportunities,” said Huang. “We are at the big bang of intelligence, and the United Kingdom’s Goldilocks ecosystem of world-class expertise, outstanding universities and vibrant industries is uniquely positioned to thrive in the age of AI.”
“In this age of AI, I want the U.K. to be the destination of choice for companies at the forefront of technological change, and renowned for harnessing homegrown talent and building sovereign capability,” said Starmer. “These major announcements mark 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 — all part of our Plan for Change.”
Furthermore, NVIDIA is enabling U.K. cloud partner Nscale to scale up its global expansion with 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs worldwide.
