“Speed“ reason CoreWeave leasing data centre space in UK, says European boss

An executive who runs the international business of a US cloud company central to the UK’s AI plans says it’s leasing data centre space in the UK rather than building data centres so as to bring compute to the market as quickly as possible, amid soaring demand. Backed by Nvidia, CoreWeave , along with Nscale, is key to the UK government’s AI plans, pledging billions of pounds of investment in AI data centre capacity into the UK. CoreWeave currently operates two data centres in England: one in Lo