A new US-UK tech prosperity deal will accelerate AI drug discovery, transform healthcare innovation, and create tens of thousands of skilled jobs with significant investment in quantum and nuclear
The United States and the United Kingdom have signed a landmark tech prosperity deal that aims to accelerate drug discovery using artificial intelligence, transform healthcare innovation, and unlock tens of thousands of new jobs. Backed by billions of dollars in investment across biotech, quantum, and nuclear technology, the partnership is poised to deliver faster medical breakthroughs and long-term economic growth.
£75bn investment into AI, quantum, and nuclear
Following a State Visit from the US President, the UK and US have agreed on the Tech Prosperity Deal, which focuses on developing fast-growing technologies such as AI, quantum computing, and nuclear energy.
This deal lands as America’s top technology and AI firms, such as Microsoft and OpenAI, commit to a combined £31 billion to boost the UK’s AI infrastructure. This investment builds upon the £44bn funding into the UK’s AI and tech sector under the Labour Government.
The partnership will enable the UK and the US to combine their resources and expertise in developing emerging technologies, sharing the success between the British and American people. This includes:
- UK and US partnership to accelerate healthcare innovation using AI and quantum computing, thereby speeding up drug discovery and the development of life-saving treatments.
- Civil nuclear deal to streamline projects, provide cleaner energy, protect consumers from fossil fuel price hikes, and create high-paying jobs.
- Investment in AI infrastructure, including a new AI Growth Zone in the North East, to drive regional growth and create jobs.
- Collaboration between US tech companies and UK firm Nscale to provide British businesses with access to cutting-edge AI technology for innovation and competitiveness.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said: “This Tech Prosperity Deal marks a generational step change in our relationship with the US, shaping the futures of millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic, and delivering growth, security and opportunity up and down the country.
By teaming up with world-class companies from both the UK and US, we’re laying the foundations for a future where together we are world leaders in the technology of tomorrow, creating highly skilled jobs, putting more money in people’s pockets and ensuring this partnership benefits every corner of the United Kingdom.”
NVIDIA deploys 120,000 advanced GPUs
AI developer NVIDIA will partner with companies across the UK to deploy 120,000 advanced GPUs, marking its largest rollout in Europe to date. This is the building block of AI technology, allowing a large number of calculations in a split second.
This includes the deployment of up to 60,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Ultra GPUs from the British firm Nscale, which will partner with OpenAI to deliver a Stargate UK project and establish a partnership with Microsoft to provide the UK’s largest AI supercomputer in Loughton.
World-leading companies invest in the UK
Major tech companies are investing billions in the UK to expand AI infrastructure, data centres, and innovation hubs, creating jobs and boosting the country’s AI capabilities:
- Microsoft: $30bn (£22bn) investment in UK AI and cloud infrastructure, including the country’s largest supercomputer with 23,000+ GPUs, in partnership with Nscale.
- Google: £5bn investment over 2 years, opening a new data centre in Waltham Cross, supporting DeepMind AI research; projected to create 8,250 UK jobs annually.
- CoreWeave: £1.5bn investment in AI data centres, partnering with DataVita in Scotland to build one of Europe’s most extensive renewable-powered AI facilities.
- Salesforce: $2bn (£1.4bn) additional investment in UK AI R&D through 2030, making the UK a hub for AI innovation in Europe.
- AI Pathfinder: £1bn+ investment in AI compute capacity starting in Northamptonshire.
- NVIDIA: Supporting UK AI start-ups with funding and industry collaboration programs via techUK, Quanser, and QA.
- Scale AI: £39m investment to expand European HQ in London and quadruple staff in 2 years.
- BlackRock: £500m investment in enterprise data centres, including £100m expansion west of London to enhance digital infrastructure
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said: “This partnership will deliver good jobs, life-saving treatments and faster medical breakthroughs for the British people.
Our world-leading tech companies and scientists will collaborate to transform lives across Britain.
This is a vote of confidence in Britain’s booming AI sector – building on British success stories such as Arm, Wayve and Google Deepmind – that will boost growth and deliver tens of thousands of skilled jobs.”
