Three months after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a strategic tech collaboration at London Tech Week, the UK has made major strides in establishing itself as a global AI hub. NVIDIA, in partnership with U.K.-based AI infrastructure company Nscale, CoreWeave, Microsoft, and others, is driving the largest AI infrastructure rollout in the nation’s history, with up to 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs set to be deployed across the U.K. by the end of 2026. This initiative, backed by an estimated £11 billion in investment, will power AI factories that serve leading models including OpenAI’s Stargate U.K., supporting sovereign AI development and economic growth. NVIDIA’s partnership with Nscale will scale its global AI infrastructure to include 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs worldwide, with 60,000 of those located in the U.K. Nscale and Microsoft are also building the U.K.’s most powerful supercomputer in Loughton, featuring over 24,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs to enhance Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in the region. CoreWeave is investing £2.5 billion in total in the U.K., with a new data center in Scotland powered by renewable energy and advanced closed-loop cooling to minimize environmental impact. This facility will house cutting-edge Blackwell GPUs and support AI innovation across research, startups, and public services. The U.K. is also advancing in quantum computing, with NVIDIA collaborating with Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) to build a quantum-GPU AI supercomputing center at Digital Realty’s JFK10 facility. This integration of quantum processors with NVIDIA’s CUDA-Q platform enables secure, scalable access to hybrid quantum-AI systems. Additional research partnerships include ORCA Computing and Imperial College London on hybrid-quantum deep neural networks, the University of Edinburgh’s GPU-accelerated quantum error correction, and the University of Oxford’s use of AI to control quantum hardware. To strengthen the U.K.’s talent pipeline, NVIDIA is teaming with techUK, Quanser, and QA to launch an R&D hub focused on AI and robotics. This initiative will provide funding, training, and collaboration opportunities for startups and researchers. QA will deliver NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute courses on inference and generative AI, with access to the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform, supporting the government’s workforce upskilling goals. The U.K.’s AI foundation is already active, with projects like UK-LLM, Nightingale AI (a health-focused model trained on NHS data), PolluGen (a pollution model by the University of Manchester), and the Ultrasound Foundation Model at Queen Mary University of London all built on the NVIDIA AI stack. Life sciences companies such as Isomorphic Labs, Peptone, and Oxford Nanopore are using AI for drug discovery, while startups like ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and Recraft are advancing generative and agentic AI tools. BlackRock is investing up to £500 million to modernize U.K. data centers in partnership with Digital Gravity Partners, making them NVIDIA-ready. These upgrades will support the AI industrial revolution across finance, healthcare, and public services. Prime Minister Starmer hailed the investments as a “decisive step” toward making the U.K. a world leader in AI, creating jobs and driving innovation. Huang emphasized the U.K.’s “Goldilocks ecosystem” of talent, universities, and industry as ideal for AI growth. With this coordinated push from government, academia, and global tech leaders, the U.K. is positioning itself at the forefront of the AI era, combining economic ambition with sustainability and national sovereignty.