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CoreWeave’s press release said it would invest £1bn in the UK, and quoted the then technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, as saying this would bring “two new datacentres to our shores.”

CoreWeave said the investment would “create job opportunities” and herald further expansion. Six months later, it announced that the two datacentres were operational: one in London Docklands, and one in Crawley near Gatwick.

The Guardian understands that CoreWeave became a customer of two existing datacentres, one built in 2002 and one built in 2015, both of which lease space to a host of other companies, including Google and Fujitsu. CoreWeave rented space in these datacentres, and deployed Nvidia chips that it had paid for.

I might start referring to the act of carrying my laptop from the bedroom to the living room as "building a datacenter".