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CoreWeave, a $19B AI compute provider, opens its first international data centers in the UK
Coreweave has formally opened its first two data centers in the U.K. -- its first outside its domestic U.S. market.
“This investment is a huge vote of confidence in the U.K.’s digital technology sector, and is exactly the kind we want to see as we grow the economy and use AI to drive efficiency,” Rachel Reeves, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in a statement. Both locations use Nvidia’s Hopper GPUs(graphical processing units), based on its upgraded H200 series of chips designed for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. CoreWeave is one of a number of cloud infrastructure startups looking to capitalize on the AI hype wave, including domestic European players such as France’s FlexAI; DataCrunch, which is based out of Finland; and Netherlands-based Nebius, which emerged from the ashes of Russian internet giant Yandex.
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