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The government also said there was “potential for more than 5,000 jobs and billions in private investment” in north-east England, which has been designated as a new “AI growth zone”.
Last year, the government announced a £10bn investment into a data centre to be built near Blyth, Northumberland.
It has now announced another data centre project in Northumberland dubbed Stargate UK from OpenAI, chipmaker Nvidia, semiconductor company Arm and Nscale.
OpenAI boss Sam Altman said Stargate UK would “help accelerate scientific breakthroughs, improve productivity, and drive economic growth”.
However the UK version is a fraction of the firm’s US-based Stargate project, which OpenAI launched in January with a commitment to invest $500bn (£367bn) over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for itself.
The Tony Blair Institute described the news as a “breakthrough moment” but added Britain had some work to do.
Dr Keegan McBride, an emerging tech and geopolitics expert at the institute, said that work included “reforming planning rules, accelerating the delivery of clean energy projects, and building the necessary digital infrastructure” for growth.
Matthew Sinclair, UK director of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, hailed the agreement as “a powerful demonstration of the scale of the AI opportunity for the UK economy”.
But the Conservative Party highlighted that other big international companies such as the pharmaceutical giant Merck have recently cancelled or delayed their UK expansion plans.
Satya Nadella spoke to BBC News shortly before he and other tech leaders, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, were due to attend the Royal state banquet on Wednesday.
He said he would use Microsoft’s AI tool, Copilot, to help him decide what to wear.
“I was very surprised that there was a very different dress protocol, which I’m really not sure that I’m ready for,” he said.