Global tech firm NVIDIA will inject as much as £11bn into the British AI sector, months after chief executive Jensen Huang criticised the UK’s limited infrastructure.
Announced on Tuesday evening alongside the arrival of President Trump in the UK, NVIDIA is increasing its position as a major partner and benefactor of Britain’s AI ambitions.
A host of announcements have come from US tech firms during the week of Trump’s visit, including data centre and AI infrastructure investments from the likes of CoreWeave, Microsoft and OpenAI.
The bulk of these plans will be done in partnership with NVIDIA, which will supply its chips to power the new infrastructure.
“This is the biggest single investment by a technology organisation in the UK,” said NVIDIA vice president for enterprise EMEA David Hogan.
“We’re enabling our partners to deploy 300,000 GPUs globally, and 60,000 of those will be in the UK. Together with CoreWeave, that totals 120,000 GPUs deployed here by the end of 2026.”
Earlier this year at London Tech Week, Huang shared a stage with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Investment Minister Poppy Gustafsson where he described the UK as a perfect place for the AI industry, but criticised its lack of infrastructure.
“[The UK is] just missing one thing: it is surprising this is the largest AI ecosystem in the world without its own infrastructure, which is the reason why we’re talking about it so much,” Huang said.
