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OpenAI drops out of multi-billion dollar UK investment plan, confirms Stargate UK is on hold
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OpenAI has pulled out of a UK investment pledge, which included a promise to deploy thousands of GPUs at Nscale facilities.
Key facts
- The generative AI company was among several US firms that last September promised to invest £31 billion ($41.6bn) in UK AI projects, including data centers
- In December, OpenAI hired former UK Chancellor George Osborne to lead its global Stargate data center expansion
- At the time, OpenAI said that it planned to rent space in several as yet unbuilt Nscale data centers, initially "exploring" the uptake of up to 8,000 GPUs
- OpenAI has pulled out of a UK investment pledge, which included a promise to deploy thousands of GPUs at Nscale facilities
Summary
The generative AI company was among several US firms that last September promised to invest £31 billion ($41.6bn) in UK AI projects, including data centers. At the time, OpenAI said that it planned to rent space in several as yet unbuilt Nscale data centers, initially "exploring" the uptake of up to 8,000 GPUs. Now, the company said that it was pausing such plans due to high energy costs and unspecified regulatory challenges. “We continue to explore Stargate UK and will move forward when the right conditions such as regulation and the cost of energy enable long-term infrastructure investment,” OpenAI said in a statement.