The American giant Google announced on Tuesday an investment of 5 billion pounds (5.8 billion €) over two years in the United Kingdom, especially in a data center and artificial intelligence (IA), upstream of the state visit of Donald Trump in the country.
This sum will finance the company’s investment, research, research and development expenses “in the country, which encompasses Google Deepmind (the Californian giant AI laboratory), the group said in a statement.
Google opens a data center on Waltham Cross on Tuesday, north of London, in which it had already announced last year injecting a billion $. The sum announced Tuesday will also complete this funding, said a company spokesperson to AFP.
The United Kingdom is preparing to welcome Donald Trump for a second state visit on Wednesday and Thursday, after a first visit in 2019 during his first mandate.
The American president is expected to be accompanied by several major tech and finance bosses, according to the British press. Investment announcements are expected as well as the signing of a technological agreement with London.
The British government had already unveiled more than a billion pounds of American banks in the country on Sunday, also upstream of President Trump’s state visit.
And the British executive announced on Monday that London and Washington were going to sign an agreement to accelerate the deadlines for the authorization and validation of nuclear projects between the two countries.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, London has been redoubled with efforts to get out of hydrocarbons and has made nuclear power one of its priorities.
The partnership with Washington, called “Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy”, must also be formally signed during the state visit of Donald Trump.
