NVIDIA strikes deal with UK to accelerate ‘AI industrial revolution’
18 September 2025
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As part of President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, NVIDIA has unveiled plans to launch AI factories across the nation.
On 16 September, NVIDIA announced that it is accelerating the AI industrial revolution in the United Kingdom, working with partners including CoreWeave, Microsoft and Nscale to build the nation’s next generation of AI infrastructure.
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 UK’s sovereign AI goals for building a platform to power innovation, growth and opportunity across the economy.
Unveiled three months after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced a collaboration at London Tech Week, this new infrastructure aims to foster new job opportunities and support strong, secure and sustainable economic growth across the UK, as well as serve as a platform for groundbreaking research in priority areas agreed in the UK-US tech partnership, including medicine and drug discovery.
Unveiled in honour of transatlantic technology and trade partnership during US President Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, the AI factories will scale up AI infrastructure in the UK with 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs and up to £11 billion for local data centres – the largest rollout in the country’s history.
Furthermore, NVIDIA is enabling UK cloud partner Nscale to scale up its global expansion with 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs worldwide.
“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.
“With AI supercomputers powering state-of-the-art models locally, a new generation of UK researchers, developers and entrepreneurs will drive discovery and build the companies of tomorrow.”
“In this age of AI, I want the UK 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 Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
“These major announcements mark a decisive step towards the UK 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.”
Sovereign AI infrastructure expands to accelerate UK development and deployments
Several new AI factories are being built by NVIDIA partners to transform the nation’s economy and unlock opportunities with AI.
NVIDIA Cloud Partner Nscale, the UK-based AI infrastructure company, is deploying 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs in AI factories across the United States, Portugal and Norway, with 60,000 NVIDIA GPUs now being established in the UK.
Nscale, OpenAI and NVIDIA are establishing Stargate UK, which will feature NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs operating in Nscale’s UK data centres by 2026, bringing the most advanced US technology to “transform the nation’s economy and unlock opportunities with AI”.
OpenAI is expected to use this NVIDIA infrastructure to serve its models, including its latest and most advanced reasoning model, GPT-5.
“Sovereign AI infrastructure is key to national resilience, economic growth and strategic autonomy,” said Josh Payne, CEO of Nscale. “This milestone deepens our commitment to providing critical AI infrastructure for the next industrial revolution.”
“The UK has been a longstanding pioneer of AI and is now home to world-class researchers, millions of ChatGPT users and a government that quickly recogniSed the potential of this technology,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.
“Stargate UK builds on this foundation to help accelerate scientific breakthroughs, improve productivity and drive economic growth.
“This partnership reflects our shared vision that with the right infrastructure in place, AI can expand opportunity for people and businesses across the UK.”
Nscale and Microsoft also announced plans to build the UK’S most powerful supercomputer in Loughton. It is expected to feature more than 24,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs to provide Microsoft Azure services.
"We are focused on ensuring that both the US and the UK remain at the forefront of AI and cloud innovation," said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
“That is why we are partnering with NVIDIA to bring together our global platform with their latest compute, software and network capabilities so innovators across the country have the most powerful tools to shape the future with AI.”
Additionally, CoreWeave has announced that it will establish an advanced data centre in Scotland with Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs, powered by renewable energy.
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has recently announced it will invest up to £500 million to modernise UK data centres in partnership with Digital Gravity Partners.
These data centres will be refurbished to be NVIDIA-ready, enabling them to be equipped with the latest AI hardware to build the infrastructure for the AI industrial revolution, advancing science, transforming industries and creating new economic opportunities in the UK.
TechUK accelerates robotics, AI and workforce skills in collaboration with NVIDIA
NVIDIA is collaborating with techUK, alongside robotics and automation leader Quanser and training provider QA, to strengthen the UK’s robotics and AI ecosystem.
Through this initiative, techUK will provide a comprehensive programme that connects its members, robotics researchers and startups with funding, training and opportunities to collaborate with other industry leaders. NVIDIA will provide support through its NVIDIA AI Technology Center resources and technical expertise.
NVIDIA is also teaming with QA to support the UK Government’s efforts to prepare its future workforce for the AI industrial revolution.
Through the programme, QA will provide NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute courses on inference and generative AI, along with access to computing through the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform.
This builds upon the AI skills development initiative that the UK Government and NVIDIA announced in June to support workforce upskilling and reskilling across industry, research and the public sector.