Britain boosts computing power in $1.3 billion AI drive

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain set out its plan to invest 1 billion pounds ($1.34 billion) in computing infrastructure to drive the development of artificial intelligence, which will increase its public compute capacity 20 fold over the next five years. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the funding at London Tech Week last month, where he shared the stage with Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang. The tech leader said Britain needed to boost its computing infrastructure to deliver the full potential of its leading artificial intelligence research base.