Oracle to invest $5bn in UK AI infrastructure over five years

Oracle has said it will invest $5 billion over the next five years to expand its data centre footprint in the UK to field local demand for cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services, in line with regulation for sovereign in-country processing of data. The plan is tightly coupled with the UK government’s national AI strategy, the company said. Its investment in UK data-centre computing infrastructure will support public and private sector organisations in the UK; it flagged…