US tech giant promises to invest more than $40 billion in the UK

Golden Finance reported that several major U.S. technology companies said they would spend more than $40 billion to expand Britain's AI infrastructure, a major benefit for the UK, a move that comes as the country ushers in a state visit to Trump. Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday it will invest $30 billion in the UK's AI infrastructure and existing operations by 2028, the company's largest financial commitment in the UK. Google (GOOG.O) said it will invest about $6.8 billion in AI, R&D and related engineering in the UK over the next two years. Meanwhile, NVDA.O, OpenAI and British company Nscale are joining forces to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the UK to meet OpenAI's computing power needs. The project, known as Stargate (UK), is expected to be located in the northeast of the UK, utilizing tens of thousands of Nvidia's GraceBlackwell Ultra graphics processing units. Among other investments, AI cloud computing company CoreWeave plans to invest approximately US$2.04 billion in the UK for capacity and operations of AI data centers. Salesforce announced that it will invest another $2 billion in its UK operations by 2030, while BlackRock will invest £500 million in data centers across the UK.