Just weeks after the British government designated datacenters as critical national infrastructure , a quartet of US tech firms have committed to the UK as the place to invest in their data facilities.
The quartet's investment will provide the UK with more compute power and data storage, DSIT said, so that Britain has the necessary infrastructure to train and deploy the next generation of AI technologies.to set up its European headquarters here and build a pair of AI data shacks.
That leaves ServiceNow, which says it plans to invest £1.15 billion into its UK business over the next five years. This will go toward expanding its infrastructure with Nvidia GPUs and adding new office space as the company grows beyond its current headcount of 1,000 employees, it claims. Of course,"subject to planning permission" doesn't have the same connotations it once had as datacenters are now designated as CNI, meaning that developers will largely be able to override any local objections to such facilities being built in a particular area, asEnergy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge"Tech leaders from all over the world are seeing Britain as the best place to invest with a thriving and stable market for datacenters and AI...