Chip giant NVIDIA, which has turned out to be one of the major winners in the global push for AI, is investing £11 billion into the UK’s AI sector.

This matches the enthusiasm seen by other major global tech giants for investing in the UK’s AI infrastructure to meet its ambitious plans to become an AI superpower.

Microsoft, OpenAI, and CoreWeave have also announced major tech investments, partnerships, and deals in the UK, all surrounding the state visit of US President Donald Trump to the UK to cement a tech deal between the two countries.

Most of these deals rely on a partnership with NVIDIA, which has largely cornered the AI chip market, and will supply the chips necessary for the new infrastructure.

“This is the biggest single investment by a technology organisation in the UK,” NVIDIA vice president for enterprise EMEA David Hogan said.

“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.”

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The investment comes despite previous trepidations from NVIDIA’s chief executive on the UK’s AI infrastructure given its high hopes for the technology.

At London Tech Week, Jensen Huang said that the UK is “just missing one thing” when it came to its AI ambitions: “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.”

Now, NVIDIA is backing this AI infrastructure with its landmark investment.

US AI firm CoreWeave has also joined the chorus of US companies investing in the UK tech sector, partnering with DataVita to create a new data centre based in Lanarkshire.