Microsoft has identified south Wales as a key location its rollout of next generation AI data centres in the UK. The tech giant said it plans to invest £2.5bn.
In the largest investment in its 40-year history in the UK, the US firm is expanding its AI infrastructure across sites in London, the Cardiff Capital Region and potentially also into northern England. It said the new facilities will meet the “exploding demand” for efficient, scalable and sustainable AI specific compute power. Data centres process, host and store the massive amounts of digital information that is critical for developing AI models.