Oracle will invest $5 billion in cloud infrastructure in the United Kingdom over the next five years to meet the growing demand for its services and support London’s artificial intelligence goals.
According to the firm, the expansion will assist public and private organizations across various industries in migrating workloads to the cloud, modernizing applications and innovating with AI. Local stakeholders will also gain access to Oracle’s multi-cloud capabilities, generative AI services, and U.K. public and sovereign cloud regions. Oracle expects the investment to enable more U.K. organizations to take advantage of over 50 AI agents within its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, helping them automate routine tasks in finance, supply chain, human relations, sales and marketing.
Siobhan Wilson, senior vice president and country leader at Oracle U.K., said the investment demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to supporting the U.K. government’s vision for AI. “Our cloud investment will help ensure that customers can use AI to achieve new levels of productivity, unlock growth and benefit from superior performance and security, all with improved cost savings,” she added.
This U.K. investment is the latest in recent initiatives to expand Oracle’s global cloud and AI infrastructure. Oracle just launched an AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore to promote AI adoption across Southeast Asia. Last year, the Texas-based firm also committed over $6.5 billion to establish a cloud region in Malaysia and launched a second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia as part of a $1.5 billion investment to support the kingdom’s cloud and AI-driven economy.