Microsoft and Google invest £27 billion in UK AI

Last week's announcement of Microsoft’s £2.5bn investment into AI within the UK marks a huge opportunity for innovation and growth. For businesses working within this field, this also opens the door to utilising R&D tax credits to support new projects and to maximise their impact. In our recent article, we discuss this, and RCK Partners Non-Executive Director, Lord Iain McNicol comments on what this will bring to the UK. Read the article here https://lnkd.in/e89ydNAe

Massive investment in the UK’s AI future—and equally massive opportunity for people. Scaling skills for a million individuals shows that building talent pipelines and capability is just as important as the AI infrastructure that will empower employees to innovate, collaborate, and focus on higher-value work

Microsoft is investing $30bn into the UK’s AI future, with $15bn of this investment going towards building new #Cloud and #AI infrastructure, including the country’s largest supercomputer (23,000+ advanced GPUs), in partnership with Nscale!

#AI U.S.–UK Tech Prosperity Deal President Trump, along with CEOs from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia, announced a $42 billion technology investment package in the UK. Part of the deal includes an “AI growth zone” in northeast England. While framed as economic cooperation, the initiative is also seen as a signal of U.S. tech influence abroad, potentially pressuring the UK to ease its strict digital rules against American firms. https://lnkd.in/eNuxAFg4

Microsoft is investing £22bn in the UK over the next four years. This is the largest financial commitment Microsoft has ever made in the UK in our 43 year history here. This isn't just about infrastructure and datacentres. This is Microsoft investing in skilling, innovation, government services, innovation and transformation across the whole of the UK. This investment further builds the UK as a world leader in #AI, now and in the future. Darren Hardman David Collier Microsoft Ben MacIntyre Aurelia Foti

Microsoft’s £30 billion vote of confidence in the UK’s AI future🤖 Big news from Microsoft that’s worth celebrating and reflecting on. They’ve just announced a $30 billion investment in the UK to supercharge AI infrastructure and operations between now and 2028. This is their largest-ever financial commitment in the UK, and it’s a huge signal of trust in Britain’s leadership in tech and innovation. Here are the highlights: 🔹 £15 billion for infrastructure, including building the UK’s largest supercomputer with 23,000+ NVIDIA GPUs in partnership with Nscale. 🔹 Expanded datacenter footprint, to support AI adoption across industries like finance, healthcare, telecoms, and even football (yes, the Premier League is in on it!). 🔹 Empowering UK businesses, Barclays, Vodafone, NHS, and others are already seeing major productivity gains using Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot. 🔹 6,000-strong UK workforce, supporting everything from AI research and product development to gaming and customer support. 🔹 1M+ people trained in AI skills, helping the UK workforce stay ahead in the AI economy. 🔹 Backed by government reform, Microsoft credits the UK Government’s efforts in planning, energy, and regulation for enabling this scale of investment. This isn’t just about tech, it’s about jobs, skills, innovation, and long-term growth. It’s a powerful example of how trusted partnerships and responsible AI development can unlock real opportunity. 💬 What do you think this means for the UK’s role in the global AI race? https://lnkd.in/eYKUvAz8 #AIInvestment #MicrosoftAI #UKTech #DigitalTransformation #FutureOfWork #CloudComputing #AIInfrastructure #TechLeadership #Innovation #SkillsForTomorrow #Copilot #GitHubCopilot #DigitalEconomy #Softcat #B2BTech #TrustedPartnerships

Some positive news to start the week? Last week the UK secured a record £150bn in US investment commitments. Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Blackstone and others are promising to build AI supercomputers, data centres, and expand life sciences and biotech R&D. 📊 The investments: - Blackstone: £90bn over 10 years (~£9bn per year) - Microsoft: £22bn over 4 years — including a new AI supercomputer - Google: £5bn over 2 years, creating thousands of jobs - Nvidia & partners: £11bn by 2026 to deploy 120,000 GPUs and support UK AI start-ups Together, that could equate to c.£15–25bn per year of new capital spending — equal to 0.5–0.9% of UK GDP annually. In an economy growing around 1% per year, that’s a material uplift, even before accounting for multiplier effects (jobs, tax receipts, consumption etc.). ⚖️ But context matters. As Reuters noted, the UK has faced weak inward investment in recent years — so while this package is impressive, it only partly offsets a worrying trend. And these are multi-year commitments, not immediate investments. ✅ A welcome boost — and a rare dose of good economic news. But capital inflows don’t automatically translate into growth, and other sectors (e.g. Big Pharma) have recently pulled c.£2bn of planned UK investment. Still, this could be the spark for the next wave of UK AI champions.

🚨 BREAKING news for UK tech 🚨 President Trump and PM Starmer have signed a £150billion Technology Deal, positioning the UK as a true global AI hub. 🚀 Investment highlights: Microsoft → £22bn in supercomputing + cloud infrastructure Nvidia → 120,000 GPUs in Europe’s largest rollout Google → £5bn for new data centres + DeepMind-led R&D CoreWeave → £1.5bn to expand UK AI data centres OpenAI → “Stargate UK” + new AI Growth Zone in the North East AWS, Salesforce, Oracle, BlackRock & more → multi-billion commitments 💡 Together, these investments put the UK at the heart of global AI growth — creating thousands of jobs, powering breakthroughs in science, health & energy, and securing Britain’s digital future. This is amazing news for UK innovation and proof that AI isn’t just about technology, it’s about creating jobs and opportunity for the future. #ai #artificialintelligence #futureofwork #innovation #technology

Increasing investment in AI-focused technology companies is raising concerns of stretched stock valuations. On the face of it, this spending frenzy and circular funding arguably looks positive, with our own Chancellor of the Exchequer relying on US tech giants to help grow the UK’s economy. Confirmed investments include Google pledging to invest £5bn in a UK data centre, with the likes of Nvidia and OpenAI expected to announce investment commitments. Despite this, there are fears that we could be about to see market correction within the next two years, signalling a repeat of the dot-com crash.

Microsoft has announced a $30 billion investment in AI infrastructure in the UK. The tech giant's significant investment is part of its efforts to expand its presence in the region. This development comes as President Donald Trump is scheduled to embark on a state visit to the UK. For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/eh6Qj4mf #AIInvestments #UKTechNews