OpenAI and Nvidia are planning to invest billions of dollars in the UK to build data centers. The announcement is expected to align with U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the country, which will involve London-based Nscale Global Holdings.
If we go by the recent Bloomberg report, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will join a group of U.S. tech leaders traveling to the UK as part of a broader delegation. Along with the leaders, some U.S. companies are also expected to announce tens of billions in new UK commitments during the visit.
The planned investment highlights the growing demand for advanced digital infrastructure as AI and cloud computing workloads surge. Nvidia’s GPUs have become the backbone of large-scale AI systems, and OpenAI’s language models continue to set benchmarks in generative AI performance.
However, this is not the only investment news from OpenAI. Recently, the company has signed a massive $300 billion cloud deal with Oracle. Under that agreement, OpenAI will purchase computing resources from Oracle over five years beginning in 2027. The partnership is part of OpenAI’s Project Stargate, a plan to build data centers capable of delivering 4.5 gigawatts of power. These facilities are intended to support next-generation AI models that will require unprecedented computing capacity.
By linking its Oracle partnership with new UK investments, OpenAI is signaling a long-term strategy to expand its global infrastructure footprint. For Nvidia, the UK commitment reinforces its position as a critical hardware provider for AI systems worldwide. Together, the companies are positioning themselves to meet the escalating compute demands of AI development and deployment.
Though it’s worth noting that OpenAI is not the only one racing in this data center race, other giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are also expected to collectively invest over $300 billion into AI data center infrastructure by the end of the year.
