{ "title": "UK BUSINESS AI UNIVERSE: Cloud and compute", "built": "2026-10-31 17:13 UTC", "last_checked": "2026-10-29", "checked_range": [ "2026-10-29", "2026-10-29" ], "as_of": "2026-10-29", "buckets": [ { "key": "co", "label": "Companies", "color": "#d1495b", "count": 33 }, { "key": "inv", "label": "Investors and funds", "color": "#2e86de", "count": 0 }, { "key": "deal", "label": "Deals", "color": "#10ac84", "count": 2 }, { "key": "prog", "label": "Schemes, programmes and AI lines", "color": "#f39c12", "count": 46 }, { "key": "site", "label": "Data centres and compute sites", "color": "#8e44ad", "count": 60 }, { "key": "org", "label": "Networks, bodies, events and media", "color": "#34495e", "count": 4 }, { "key": "part", "label": "Partnerships and contracts", "color": "#e67e22", "count": 25 }, { "key": "prod", "label": "Chips, models and products", "color": "#e84393", "count": 9 }, { "key": "person", "label": "People", "color": "#9bbf00", "count": 0 } ], "divisions": [ { "key": "national-and-research-compute", "label": "National and research compute", "count": 75, "depts": [ { "dept": "National and research compute", "count": 68 }, { "dept": "national and research compute", "count": 7 } ] }, { "key": "compute-policy-and-programmes", "label": "Compute policy and programmes", "count": 32, "depts": [ { "dept": "Compute policy and programmes", "count": 28 }, { "dept": "compute policy and programmes", "count": 4 } ] }, { "key": "gpu-and-ai-clouds", "label": "GPU and AI clouds", "count": 22, "depts": [ { "dept": "GPU and AI clouds", "count": 22 } ] }, { "key": "sovereign-and-government-cloud", "label": "Sovereign and government cloud", "count": 18, "depts": [ { "dept": "Sovereign and government cloud", "count": 16 }, { "dept": "sovereign and government cloud", "count": 2 } ] }, { "key": "partnerships-and-contracts", "label": "Partnerships and contracts", "count": 9, "depts": [ { "dept": "Partnerships and contracts", "count": 6 }, { "dept": "telecoms", "count": 2 }, { "dept": "financial services compliance", "count": 1 } ] }, { "key": "managed-ai-infrastructure-and-msps", "label": "Managed AI infrastructure and MSPs", "count": 7, "depts": [ { "dept": "Managed AI infrastructure and MSPs", "count": 7 } ] }, { "key": "companies", "label": "Companies", "count": 5, "depts": [ { "dept": "Companies", "count": 3 }, { "dept": "cloud computing", "count": 1 }, { "dept": "AI data centres", "count": 1 } ] }, { "key": "data-centres-and-compute-sites", "label": "Data centres and compute sites", "count": 5, "depts": [ { "dept": "cloud computing", "count": 4 }, { "dept": "edge data centres", "count": 1 } ] }, { "key": "chips-models-and-products", "label": "Chips, models and products", "count": 5, "depts": [ { "dept": "cloud computing", "count": 2 }, { "dept": "Chips, models and products", "count": 2 }, { "dept": "telecoms", "count": 1 } ] }, { "key": "compute-deals", "label": "Compute deals", "count": 1, "depts": [ { "dept": "compute deals", "count": 1 } ] } ], "colleges": [], "nodes": [ { "id": "BIZ-BIG-002", "name": "Stargate UK (OpenAI, NVIDIA and Nscale)", "bucket": "part", "status": "dormant", "status_date": "2026-04-09", "status_detail": "On 9 April 2026 OpenAI put Stargate UK on hold, saying it would \"move forward when the right conditions such as regulation and the cost of energy enable\" (City AM).", "one_line": "A plan announced in September 2025 for OpenAI to run its models on computers inside the UK, supplied by Nscale with NVIDIA chips.", "description": "Stargate UK was announced on 16 September 2025, during the US state visit, as an AI infrastructure partnership between OpenAI, NVIDIA and the British firm Nscale. OpenAI said it would explore taking up to 8,000 GPUs in the first quarter of 2026, with the potential to scale to 31,000 over time, at sites including Cobalt Park in the North East AI Growth Zone. Its stated purpose was to let OpenAI's models run on UK computing power for uses where jurisdiction matters. On 9 April 2026 OpenAI paused the project, citing energy costs and regulation. The data-centre sites are recorded on the Data centres page. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] CLOUD & COMPUTE: Nscale, OpenAI and Nvidia platform to run OpenAI models on UK infrastructure; OpenAI to take up to 8,000 GPUs first, possibly about 31,000 later; sites include Cobalt Park. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] capacity; site: First phase: OpenAI to take up to 8,000 GPUs, possibly about 31,000 over time; sites include Cobalt Park in the North East AI Growth Zone [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] Announced 16 September 2025 during the US State Visit, linking Nscale (re-registered as Nscale plc on 9 October 2026, per the file), NVIDIA (up to 60,000 Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs in the UK), OpenAI and Microsoft. OpenAI paused the Cobalt Park build in April 2026 over power prices and regulation. 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UK", "sources": [ "https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uk/", "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-breaking-150bn-investment-unveiled-during-us-state-visit", "https://www.cityam.com/openai-pauses-stargate-uk-project-over-energy-costs-and-regulation/", "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/north-east-england-set-for-billions-in-investment-and-thousands-of-jobs-as-uk-and-us-ink-tech-partnership" ], "source_quotes": [ { "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-uk/", "quotes": [ "an AI infrastructure partnership with NVIDIA and Nscale", "up to 8,000 GPUs in Q1 2026", "Cobalt Park, which will form part of the newly designated AI Growth Zone in the North East\" (dated September 16, 2025)" ], "accessed": "2026-10-29", "trade": false, "amendment": false }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-breaking-150bn-investment-unveiled-during-us-state-visit", "quotes": [ "to establish Stargate UK to deliver new AI infrastructure in the UK.\" (dated 17 September 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Growth Zone, with a £1.5bn deployment at DataVita's Airdrie site that it says forms part of £2.5bn invested in UK AI projects. Companies House shows COREWEAVE UK LIMITED as Active (checked 31 Oct 2026).", "one_line": "The London European headquarters of a US company that rents out NVIDIA-GPU computing for AI, with £2.5bn of stated UK investment.", "description": "On 10 May 2024 the UK government said CoreWeave would invest £1bn in the UK and base its new European headquarters in London. On 16 September 2025 CoreWeave announced £1.5bn for AI data-centre capacity and operations in the UK, including a partnership with DataVita in Scotland. On 29 January 2026, when Lanarkshire was named an AI Growth Zone, CoreWeave said it would roll out NVIDIA GPUs at DataVita's Airdrie site as part of the £2.5bn it has invested in UK AI projects (BIZ-BIG-024). [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] CLOUD & COMPUTE: US GPU cloud provider with its European headquarters in London; pledged £1bn (May 2024), a further £750m (Oct 2024) and £1.5bn (Sep 2025) for UK AI compute. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] UK sites: European HQ in London; data centre sites in Crawley and London Docklands; £1.75bn invested in 2024 [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] investment pledges: £1bn (10 May 2024); further £750m (14 Oct 2024); £1.5bn (16–17 Sep 2025), \"bringing total investment in the UK to £2.5 billion over the past year\" [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] hq: European headquarters in London (announced 2024-05-10) [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] gpu_fleet: NVIDIA H200 GPUs with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand at Crawley (Digital Realty, live October 2024) and London Docklands (Global Switch, live December 2024); GPU counts not published [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] funding_total_as_published: Total UK commitment of £2.5bn (2025-09-16), including the £1bn committed in May 2024 [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] partners: DataVita (Scotland) to deploy NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs; a further sovereign deployment planned with NVIDIA GB300 and RTX PRO Blackwell Server Edition GPUs (2025-09-16) [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] key_facts: UKTN reports total UK investment of £2.5bn after the £1.5bn of 2025-09-17, \"including\" the £1bn of 2024; GPUs: NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra, with DataVita in Scotland [Big tech Round 1, 30 Oct 2026] London European headquarters chosen in May 2024 with £1bn, plus £750m in October 2024; first two UK data centres live in January 2025 in Crawley (Digital Realty) and London Docklands (Global Switch). 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[Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] new region: Sovereign cloud region in Mumbai, India, in a Sify Technologies data centre (Kubernetes, IaaS, PaaS) [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] person: Mark Boost, CEO and co-founder [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] headquarters: Stevenage [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] chief_executive: Mark Boost — founder and CEO [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] products: CivoStack (own software stack), CivoAI, FlexCore (cloud-in-a-box) and NVIDIA B200 GPUs launched or shown 2025-09-29; relaxAI assistant shown as a roadmap item [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] regions: Existing regions in the US, UK, Germany and India (2025-09-29); second European region planned by mid-2026; Middle East planned for 2027 [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] gpu_fleet: Among the first UK clouds to host NVIDIA Vera Rubin (newsroom item 2026-07-23); early-access price from $10.00 per hour (October 2026) [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] partners: Arupa Cloud Nusantara (Indonesia), Era4, Locai Labs, Canopy Cloud (joint whitepaper, 2025-10-20), ServerChoice (integrated 2025-09-29) [Cloud Round 1, 31 Oct 2026] The file names Relax AI as Civo's privacy-preserving AI service. 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On 9 June 2026 it and Civo announced that Civo's CivoStack software would run on Era4's AI infrastructure, which uses NVIDIA HGX B300 systems. No Era4 page or Companies House entry was opened. 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\"HUGHES, Patrick Joseph\" and \"PARRY, Joseph Peter\" Directors \"23 June 2025" ], "accessed": "2026-10-29", "trade": false, "amendment": false }, { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/civo-and-era4-launch-sovereign-ai-cloud-offering-in-the-uk/", "quotes": [ "Era4 was founded as Carbon3.ai in June 2025, rebranding earlier this year." ], "accessed": "2026-10-30", "trade": true, "amendment": false }, { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/carbon3ai-launches-uk-based-sovereign-ai-platform/", "quotes": [ "A new sovereign AI platform has come to the UK.", "The GPUs will be deployed at sites as demand increases." ], "accessed": "2026-10-30", "trade": true, "amendment": false }, { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/era4-plans-landfill-gas-powered-data-center-in-canterbury-uk/", "quotes": [ "the company aims to deploy 100,000 GPUs across more than 30 locations." ], "accessed": "2026-10-30", "trade": true, "amendment": false }, { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ai-data-center-planned-for-landfill-site-in-derbyshire-uk/", "quotes": [ "planning four hyperscale data centers around the UK, as well as a network of 30 “rapid deployment sites." ], "accessed": "2026-10-30", "trade": true, "amendment": false }, { "url": "https://www.uktech.news/ai/carbon3-ai-1bn-pledge-sovereign-infrastructure-20251117", "quotes": [ "estimated programme cost to convert 50 MW of secured, renewable baseload generation into data-centre capacity" ], "accessed": "2026-10-30", "trade": true, "amendment": false } ], "website": [], "colleges": [], "topics": [ "AI infrastructure" ], "one_source": true, "confidence_raw": "single_source", "depts": [ { "dept": "AI data centres", "div": "companies" } ], "div_label": "Companies", "location": null, "status_group": "active", "ext_links": [], "label_links": [], "degree": 5, "related_ids": [ "BIZ-CLD-001", "BIZ-CLD-022", "BIZ-CLD-3007", "BIZ-CLD-3008" ] }, { "id": "BIZ-CLD-007", "name": "AWS Europe (London) Region", "bucket": "site", "status": "active", "status_date": "2026-09-30", "status_detail": "On 30 September 2026 AWS made Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 available for in-region inference on Amazon Bedrock in London.", "one_line": "Amazon Web Services' cloud region in London, where UK customers can rent computing and run AI models without data leaving the region.", "description": "AWS runs a cloud region it calls Europe (London), identified as eu-west-2. On 30 September 2026 it announced in-region inference on Amazon Bedrock in London for two Anthropic Claude models, saying processing does not leave the region, which it presented as useful for finance, healthcare and the public sector. Oracle also lists Europe (London) as a live region for its Oracle AI Database@AWS service. AWS's UK investment plans are on the Big tech page (BIZ-BIG-013). 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Oracle lists both as live for its Oracle AI Database@Azure service. Pages stating which Azure OpenAI or GPU services run in each UK region could not be opened in this session (see Gaps), and the locations of the regions were not stated on any page opened. Microsoft's UK investment and its Nscale supercomputer are on the Big tech page (BIZ-BIG-009, BIZ-BIG-044). 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Its machine-learning locations page lists the AI services available there, including custom model training, batch and online inference, Model Registry and Vector Search, and lists \"H100†, L4, T4\" accelerators, with a note that H100 is not available for training. Google's GPU pricing page lists London (europe-west2) among the regions where GPUs are priced. Oracle lists London (europe-west2) as live for Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud. Google's UK data centre at Waltham Cross is on the Data centres page (BIZ-DC-023). 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DCD reported in April 2025 that it had more than 10,000 users, and separately that NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 servers had been added. No UK hosting site was named on the pages opened. 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It lists H100, L4 and T4 accelerators in London, H100 not for training. 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It was offered first in London and surrounding area, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and Cardiff, with Scotland and northern England planned for 2022. Vodafone named \"machine learning inference (artificial intelligence) at the edge\" among intended uses. 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It cited \"one gigawatt of high-performance capacity\" without saying whether that was for the network. Companies House shows a Civo Data Centre (Welwyn) Ltd registered in Stevenage, incorporated 4 September 2025; no page opened ties it to this site. 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Its systems are Isambard-AI in Bristol (BIZ-DC-008, 5,448 NVIDIA GH200 superchips), Dawn in Cambridge (BIZ-DC-010, 1,024 Intel GPUs) and Zenith in Cambridge (BIZ-CLD-017). Access is through the AIRRPortal: Rapid access gives UK micro, small and medium organisations up to 20,000 GPU hours, and Gateway gives researchers up to 10,000 GPU hours. The UK Compute Roadmap (17 July 2025) committed to expanding it 20 times by 2030 with over £1bn, from 21 to 420 AI exaflops, with a reserved share for the Sovereign AI Unit. A further national AI supercomputer (BIZ-CLD-018) and £250m of rented cloud GPUs (BIZ-CLD-019) are planned. UKRI handles applications. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] DATA CENTRES: Government compute programme with up to £250 million earmarked to add cloud capacity for UK researchers. 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DSIT's notice gives an anticipated build budget of £750m: £150m for an Advanced Market Commitment to buy novel chips from start-ups and British firms, £250m for specialised hardware in a second phase, and £350m for established vendor hardware, data centre and infrastructure. Phase 1 is due \"to go live early 2028\" and phase 2 in FY29/30. DSIT asked possible host sites to respond by 10 August 2026; the final choice rests with the Secretary of State. [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] host search: Expression of interest published 17 July 2026, responses due 10 August 2026; Phase 1 live early 2028 (up to 10MW); Phase 2 in FY29/30 (20–30MW); £150m advance market commitment for novel inference hardware, £250m for further specialised hardware [Round 4, 30 Oct 2026] chip procurement: £400m procurement for specialised chips: £150m Advanced Market Commitment (see BIZ-CLD-2089) then £250m for further specialised hardware [Round 6, 30 Oct 2026] key_facts: The £750m includes up to £400m to buy next-generation AI chips, of which £150m is an advance commitment to buy novel chips from start-ups (2026-06-10) [Round 7, 30 Oct 2026] Chips and hardware: Next-gen national AI supercomputer integrating conventional GPUs with novel UK AI chips and quantum processors. Parent / operator: AIRR / DSIT / UKRI. Funding / scale: £750M. [Cloud Round 1, 31 Oct 2026] The file says DSIT moved to Stage 2 of host-site selection after the 10 August 2026 deadline. 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The Compute Roadmap (17 July 2025) said it would replace ARCHER2, come online in 2027 and be run by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, the first designated National Supercomputing Centre. UKRI's notice UKRI-5244 estimates £275m excluding VAT for a service running from September 2026 to August 2031, the machine to be owned by UKRI. The 8 June 2026 release said the tender is due to launch soon. Cerebras systems already run at Edinburgh (BIZ-BIG-040). 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