UK sees major investment from some of the biggest names in tech - here's all the top deals announced today (www.techradar.com)

A wave of multibillion‑dollar pledges from Nvidia, Microsoft, Oracle (and Google’s earlier $6.8B plan) is positioning the UK as a major cloud and AI investment hub. Nvidia and partners announced roughly £11B to build “AI factories,” including the UK’s largest AI infrastructure rollout — 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs — plus an Oxford Quantum Circuits partnership to create a quantum‑GPU supercomputing center and new R&D for AI and robotics. Microsoft committed $30B to UK AI infrastructure over four years, including $15B in capex to build the country’s largest supercomputer (23,000 NVIDIA GPUs) with partner Nscale. Oracle is investing $5B over five years to expand AI capabilities for government and defense via a sovereign cloud and a secure shared tech platform, and will offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Generative AI service (pretrained foundational and custom model support) to UK customers. For AI/ML practitioners and policymakers this accelerates local capability for large‑scale training and inference, reduces dependence on foreign datacenters, and enables more sovereign, secure deployments for regulated sectors (defense, government, healthcare). The mix of hyperscaler capex, specialized GPU density, and quantum‑GPU R&D signals faster iteration on foundation models, robotics applications, and hybrid compute architectures — while also raising strategic questions about data sovereignty, supply chains, and competitive dynamics between cloud providers.