Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft Announce AI Investments In The UK

Nvidia announced on Tuesday a new partnership with multiple tech companies and the U.K. government to develop AI infrastructure in the region. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google also unveiled multibillion-dollar deals and collaborations on AI projects with the country.

According to Nvidia’s announcement, it will invest up to £11 billion—aroud $15 billion—in the U.K. to build AI factories, in collaboration with other tech companies such as CoreWeave and Nscale for AI infrastructure. The chipmaker said it expects to build up to 60,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) in the new facilities by the end of 2026.

“The AI factories will add an up to £11 billion investment in the U.K. with 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs to local data centers — the largest rollout in the country’s history,” states the document. “Furthermore, NVIDIA is enabling U.K. cloud partner Nscale to scale up its global expansion with 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs worldwide.”

Microsoft said it plans to invest $30 billion by 2028 to expand operations and to build the “largest supercomputer” in the U.K., powered by more than 23,000 advanced GPUs.

In turn, OpenAI said, its collaboration with Nvidia and Nscale is part of the Stargate U.K. project. The new infrastructure will allow its AI models to run on local computing power, while also supporting economic growth in the country.

“OpenAI will explore offtake up to 8,000 GPUs in Q1 2026 with the potential to scale to 31,000 GPUs over time,” states the document.

OpenAI first introduced the Stargate project in the United States through a $500 billion deal and has since been expanding the initiative globally. The AI startup also announced another recent collaboration with Nscale to build Europe’s largest data center under the Stargate Norway program. And just a few days ago, it was reported that OpenAI will build a 1-gigawatt data center in India, also as part of its Stargate initiative.