NVIDIA partners with OpenAI and other AI giants to invest £11 billion in advancing the "Stargate" project
NVIDIA and partners such as OpenAI are investing up to £11 billion in the UK to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, driving innovation and economic growth. The project is named "Gateway to the Stars" and is expected to deploy up to 60,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs by 2026, making it the largest artificial intelligence infrastructure project in UK history. OpenAI will utilize this infrastructure to run its latest models, including GPT-5. Meanwhile, Nscale and Microsoft plan to build the UK's most powerful supercomputer in Essex
According to the Zhitong Finance APP, NVIDIA (NVDA.US) stated that it is collaborating with CoreWeave (CRWV.US), Microsoft (MSFT.US), Nscale, and OpenAI to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the UK to promote innovation, economic growth, and job opportunities. Nscale, OpenAI, and NVIDIA are jointly establishing a UK version of "Stargate," which will deploy Blackwell Ultra GPUs in Nscale's UK data center by 2026.
The American tech giant pointed out that by the end of 2026, the partner companies will have built and operated AI factories to serve various leading AI models, including OpenAI, to help the UK achieve its autonomous AI goals, which aim to create a platform that drives innovation and development.
NVIDIA will collaborate with the UK AI infrastructure company Nscale to deploy 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) on a large scale across various AI factories in the US, Portugal, and Norway, with up to 60,000 GPUs to be deployed in the UK.
NVIDIA, Nscale, CoreWeave, and other companies plan to invest up to £11 billion in the UK to build AI factories equipped with up to 120,000 Blackwell GPUs—this will be the largest AI infrastructure construction project in UK history—and will support projects like OpenAI's "Stargate" in the UK. OpenAI is expected to utilize this NVIDIA infrastructure to run its various models, including the latest and most advanced reasoning model, GPT-5.
Additionally, Nscale and Microsoft announced plans to build the UK's most powerful supercomputer in Luton, Essex. This computer is expected to be equipped with over 24,000 Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs to provide Microsoft Azure services in the UK.
NVIDIA stated that it is taking several measures to promote the development of quantum computing in the UK, including collaborating with Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) to jointly establish a quantum-GPU AI supercomputing center.
Based on Digital Realty's JFK10 facility in New York, the new center's OQC GENESIS system will utilize NVIDIA's CUDA-Q platform to integrate OQC's quantum computing technology with NVIDIA's AI infrastructure and Digital Realty's data center interconnection and hosting expertise, providing enterprises with secure, scalable integrated quantum-GPU computing services.
NVIDIA is working with techUK, robotics and automation company Quanser, and training provider QA to strengthen the UK's robotics and AI ecosystem In addition, NVIDIA stated that the UK's foundational models UK-LLM, Nightingale AI, and PolluGen, as well as AI leaders in areas such as agent-based and generative AI, quantum computing, life sciences, finance, and robotics (such as ElevenLabs, Isomorphic Labs, JLR, Nscale, Oxa, Revolut, Synthesia, and Wayve) are all developing based on NVIDIA's AI architecture.
NVIDIA pointed out that BlackRock recently announced a partnership with Digital Gravity Partners to invest up to £500 million in modernizing data centers in the UK. The company stated that these data centers will be refurbished to meet NVIDIA's standards
