<div id="readability-page-1"><div id="readability-page-1"><div><figure><figcaption>Sir Keir Starmer, right, listens to Eric Schmidt and Dame Emma Walmsley during the International ... [+] Investment Summit.Getty Images</figcaption></figure> The U.K. government said that four American tech companies have agreed to invest a combined £6.3 billion ($8.2 billion) in data centers, a move aimed at strengthening Britain’s position in the global AI race. The investment pledges came from ServiceNow, CyrusOne, CloudHQ and CoreWeave, the government said Monday during the International Investment Summit. U.K. Technology Secretary Peter Kyle described the agreement as a “vote of confidence in Britain.” “Tech leaders from all over the world are seeing Britain as the best place to invest with a thriving and stable market for data centers and AI development,” Kyle said in a statement. “Data centers power our day-to-day lives and boost innovation in growing sectors like AI,” Kyle continued. “This is why only last month, I took steps to class U.K. data centers as Critical National Infrastructure giving the industry the ultimate reassurance the U.K. will always be a safe home for their investment.” CloudHQ is developing a new £1.9 billion data center campus in Didcot, Oxfordshire that promises to create 1,500 jobs during construction, and 100 jobs after it becomes fully operational. ServiceNow said it plans to invest £1.15 billion into its U.K. business over the next 5 years to expand its data center operations. CyrusOne announced plans to expand its investment in the U.K. to £2.5 billion over the coming years. The company said its projects should be operational by the end of 2028, and are expected to create over 1,000 jobs. CoreWeave confirmed a £750 million investment to fuel AI cloud infrastructure, following its £1 billion commitment earlier this year and the opening of its European headquarters in London. Just prior to the announcement, Google's former chief executive officer, Eric Schmidt, warned Prime Minister Keir Starmer that Britain is at risk of getting left behind in the race to develop data centers. “We need you to approve the necessary steps to make these data centers in Britain, because your research scientists, your companies, your citizens all need these things,” Schmidt said at the summit. </div></div></div>

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英國政府宣佈，四家美國科技公司——現在服務、CyrusOne、CloudHQ 和 CoreWeave——將共同投資 63 億英鎊用於數據中心，提升英國在全球人工智能領域的地位。英國科技大臣彼得·凱爾稱讚這是對英國的重要信心投票。其中值得注意的投資包括 CloudHQ 在迪德科特的 19 億英鎊校園、現在服務的 11.5 億英鎊擴張計劃，以及 CyrusOne 的 25 億英鎊計劃，預計將創造數千個就業崗位。埃裏克·施密特強調了英國支持數據中心發展以保持競爭力的緊迫性

美國科技公司計劃在英國的數據中心投資 82 億美元