Three technology giants have pledged to spend more than £14bn on infrastructure to help deliver an artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in the UK.
Californian company Vantage Data Centres, New York-registered Kyndryl and London-based Nscale will pump money into the emerging industry as the government seeks to harness its potential.
The announcements coincided with the launch of the government’s AI initiative yesterday (13 January). Prime minister Keir Starmer backed almost all 50 recommendations in an independently created blueprint for developing the technology.
Vantage Data Centres will lead the investment charge with £12bn for data centres across the UK.
Nscale said it had purchased a site in Loughton, Essex, for its first UK data centre, which could be live in 2026 and house up to 45,000 modern graphics processing units. The firm said this project would create 500 construction jobs, while it intends to start building “multiple modular UK-based data centres” later this year.
Kyndryl announced plans to create up to 1,000 AI-related jobs in Liverpool over the next three years through a new tech hub.
The government added that the expenditure by the tech trio