NVIDIA, in partnership with Nscale and CoreWeave, is investing up to £11 billion in the United Kingdom to build AI factories. The initiative involves the largest-ever rollout of AI infrastructure in the country’s history, with plans to put up to 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in local data centers by the end of 2026.
The collaboration was announced three months after a meeting by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. It’s intended to support the UK’s sovereign AI goals and foster new jobs and economic growth. Specifically, the investment is part of the UK’s AI Action Opportunities Plan. The data centers will serve leading AI models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5, designed to power innovation and growth across the economy.
Numerous UK-based life sciences companies are using NVIDIA technologies to accelerate drug discovery and simulation, including Basecamp Research, Isomorphic Labs, and Relation Therapeutics. NVIDIA is also collaborating with several quantum computing companies including Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) and ORCA Computing. OQC is going to be establishing a quantum-AI center with NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q platform, which will support quantum processors with AI supercomputing.
NVIDIA also said that it’s working with techUK, alongside educational leader Quanser and training provider QA, to strengthen the UK’s robotics and AI ecosystem. QA will provide NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute courses and access to DGX Cloud to help close the national AI skills gap. Many of the leading UK robotics companies are using NVIDIA technologies too, such as Extend Robotics for vehicle manufacturing, Oxa for self-driving software, and Wayve for autonomous driving. The UK government is eager to give people more educational opportunities so that the workforce is better equipped to weather the AI industrial revolution.
The new infrastructure supports national projects such as UK-LLM, a large language model designed to support national languages like Welsh, and Nightingale AI, a health foundation model for earlier diagnoses. NVIDIA says several startups and model builders have started using its AI tools to advance productivity. Examples include ElevenLabs for realistic AI voice generation, PolyAI for conversational customer support, and Recraft for professional creative workflows.
This announcement came on the same day that Google and Microsoft said they were investing £5 billion and £30 billion in the UK to boost AI.