- US President Donald Trump is visiting the UK
- Digital infrastructure investments are among the related business announcements made to coincide with the occasion
- Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and more are to provide the technology that enables the UK’s sovereign cloud and AI services
A phalanx of US tech giants have announced investments and projects in the UK to coincide with President Donald Trump’s state visit to ‘Blighty’ (as we like to call it here), underlining just how reliant countries such as Britain are on the economic and technical firepower from across the Atlantic.
The announcements came as the UK and US announced a broad ‘Tech Prosperity Deal’, “focused on developing the fastest-growing technologies, like AI, quantum and nuclear.”
The UK will benefit from new datacentre facilities in the north-east of England, where the government has announced an AI Growth Zone that includes the development of a major datacentre hub, spread across various sites in Blyth and Cobalt Park near Newcastle upon Tyne. US investment firm Blackstone has committed £10bn of investment towards the Blyth site, “providing the potential for an additional £20bn in investment from future partners,” noted the UK government in this announcement.
