{"id":370524,"date":"2026-01-15T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370524\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:44:11","slug":"uk-climbs-fdi-rankings-on-ai-and-clean-energy-booms-mckinsey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370524\/","title":{"rendered":"UK climbs FDI rankings on AI and clean energy booms, McKinsey says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain has moved up the rankings as a destination for new foreign direct \u200binvestment, helped by growth in <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> and clean \u200cenergy, but needs to do more to attract other types of investment, \u200cconsultancy McKinsey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The United Kingdom was the world&#8217;s third-largest destination for newly announced FDI projects between 2022 and 2025 &#8211; behind the United States and India, up from fourth place in 2015\u201319, \u2060McKinsey said in \u200ca report published on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Inflation-adjusted inflows averaged about $85 billion a year, 40% higher than before the \u200dCOVID-19 pandemic and stronger than a 20% increase in global announced FDI, it said. By comparison, France and Germany attracted averages of $45 \u200bbillion and $43 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Britain&#8217;s government has said it wants to attract \u200cmore foreign investment as part of its push to speed up the country&#8217;s weak productivity and overall economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">McKinsey also said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">* Much of Britain&#8217;s new FDI is concentrated in clean energyand AI deals worth more than $1 billion each with \u2060relativelylittle flowing into advanced manufacturing in \u200bareas such asbatteries for electric vehicles \u200band semiconductors; * Around 80% of announced inflows to Britain came fromEurope and the United States with Britain \u200dat risk \u2060of missing outon investment from the Gulf, South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere; * Announced FDI in fossil fuels in Britain \u2060fell by around80%compared with a decline of around 30% globally, possiblyreflecting \u200cincreased taxes on oil and gas companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Writing by William \u200cSchomberg; editing by David Milliken)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Britain has moved up the rankings as a destination for new foreign direct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5098,59,57,58,19480,50,141425,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-370524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-clean-energy","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greatbritain","12":"tag-mckinsey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-types-of-investment","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}