This year’s Spending Review highlighted a critical issue that is often buried in the hype of AI. Huge budgets are being piled into AI development – including the Government’s latest promise of £2 billion in public funds – but without equal investment in data center capacity, power availability and sustainability, the country risks falling short of its AI and R&D ambitions.
While AI demand is scaling exponentially, our infrastructure isn’t. The UK’s AI ambitions rest on compute power, but compute doesn’t exist in a vacuum - it lives in data centers. These infrastructures therefore stand as the physical foundation of digital innovation, yet they’re often left as an afterthought.
