CoreWeave’s UK Playbook: Speed Over Bricks and Mortar

Current UK Data Centre Operations and Partners

CoreWeave’s UK physical footprint is defined by strategic colocation partnerships that marry the company’s specialised GPU hardware with established data centre operations. The three key sites are:

Both the Crawley and London Docklands facilities host some of Europe’s largest NVIDIA AI platform deployments, powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs and scaled with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking . These sites are powered entirely by renewable energy, reflecting a growing industry focus on sustainable computing . The Scottish deployment with DataVita extends that commitment, aiming to be a benchmark for carbon-efficient AI infrastructure .

The Architect of International Expansion

The executive driving this rapid international build-out is Mike Teller. As SVP of International, he has been the public voice of CoreWeave’s European strategy, articulating the speed-focused leasing rationale and overseeing the company’s growth from its London headquarters . CoreWeave established its European headquarters in London in May 2024, cementing the UK as the command centre for its continental push .

Alignment with the UK Government's AI Infrastructure Plans

CoreWeave is not merely building in the UK; it is deeply woven into the fabric of the government’s national AI strategy. The company is a central, private-sector pillar of the AI Opportunities Action Plan, a blueprint Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government launched to attract international partnerships for building sovereign compute capacity .

The timing of CoreWeave’s operational announcements has been coordinated with government milestones. Its January 2025 data centre opening was timed to coincide with the launch of that Action Plan . By September 2025, CoreWeave announced an additional £1.5 billion investment, bringing its total UK commitment to £2.5 billion, formally declared "in support of the country's AI Opportunities Action Plan" during a US State Visit .

CoreWeave’s role was further solidified when it was named alongside Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, and OpenAI as one of the major US tech firms pledging to expand UK AI infrastructure under a significant UK-US tech pact that same month . The company is also a named partner in the government’s Compute Roadmap, directly supporting the ambition for sustainable, sovereign AI capabilities .