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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo, Robert Booth and Jillian Ambrose

What is new in UK-US tech deal and what will it mean for the British economy?

Liquid cooled servers in an installation at the Global Switch Docklands data centre campus in London.
Liquid cooled servers in an installation at the Global Switch Docklands data centre campus in London. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s arrival in the UK on Tuesday night was accompanied by a multibillion-dollar transatlantic tech agreement.

The announcement features some of the biggest names from Silicon Valley: the chipmaker Nvidia; the ChatGPT developer, OpenAI; and Microsoft. Big numbers were involved, with Microsoft hailing its $30bn (£22bn) investment as a major commitment to the UK – and adding, in an apparent swipe at its rivals, that it was not making “empty tech promises”.

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