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  • US Stargate expansion highlights UK’s modest AI ambitions

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    OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have unveiled plans to construct five new AI data centres across the US as part of the expansive $500bn (£370bn) Stargate project. This initiative aims to achieve 10 gigawatts of compute capacity by the end of 2025, with the latest expansion bringing the total to nearly seven gigawatts and over $400bn [...]

    OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman emphasised the Stargate project’s significance.
  • Trump visit brings ‘historic’ £30bn investment into UK tech and AI

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    Microsoft has announced its largest ever UK investment, pledging £22bn to expand AI infrastructure and build the country’s largest supercomputer, as president Donald Trump touched down in London for his state visit. The commitment forms part of a wider US-UK Tech Prosperity Deal, encompassing £31bn of American investment across AI, quantum computing, and advanced nuclear [...]

    US President Donald Trump threatened new round of tariffs.

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