CoreWeave plows £1B into UK HQ and datacenters as it eyes European expansion

American GPU cloud operator CoreWeave is expanding its operations across the pond, setting up a new European headquarters in London and revealing plans to build a pair of AI datacenters in the UK, all valued at £1 billion ($1.3 billion). Founded in 2017, CoreWeave specializes in large-scale Nvidia accelerator clusters to train …

[lglethal]

Lies, lies and Political Statistics

Politician: "It will create thousands of jobs for the area..."

Translation: The construction of the facility will create a short term increase in the number of low paid construction jobs (mostly underpaid foreigners) to build the facility. Once the facility is built, there will be a staff of about a dozen, mostly involving security guards, cleaning staff, and the receptionist to answer the phone. The manager and his small number of techs (supplemented by a number of unpaid interns), will comprise the sum total of high paid jobs associated with the facility. Oh and maybe the coffee shop around the corner will see a small increase in business...

It's a win for the community, totally...

[katrinab]

Re: Lies, lies and Political Statistics

"Tech" jobs will be things like an additional customer for a local HAVC maintenance contractor, and an additional customer for a local company that looks after networking, basic computer hardware maintenance and so on.

[codejunky]

erm

Sounds like positive news, the gov now just needs to commit to building power generation instead of the useless monuments to a sky god.

[UnknownUnknown]

Re: erm

Sigh …. New HQ in Londonshire, and no doubt the pair of data centres too.

There is plenty more of the country with staff, power and infrastructure.

[Tron]

Well...

If the lights go off to keep it running, the locals will be re-enacting that scene from 'Frankenstein' - the one with the mob and the burning torches.

Do they know that the EU and UK have got divorced? EU companies will be forced to use EU clouds and only EU clouds, run out of EU HQs by EUvians. Given the state of the UK economy after 14 years of Tory vandalism, we don't really need a cloud. A RAM pack should do it.