UK: £2 Bn Investment to expand AI research and compute capacity

The British Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are launching a compute roadmap, with potential benefits including quicker health diagnoses, smarter energy supplies, tackling climate change, and improved public service delivery, announces UKRI on 18/07/2025.

"Investments include up to £2 Bn (€2.32 Bn) to deliver a holistic and user-centred compute ecosystem with £1 Bn to expand the AI Research Resource 20-fold by 2030. It also provides up to £750 M (€877 M) for UKRI to invest in a new national supercomputing service at Edinburgh", states the organisation.

In addition, UKRI, the British research and innovation organisation, will further support the compute roadmap with over £59 M (€68.5 M) of investments in world-class skills and training, UK-wide capability and access.

According to the announcement, the roadmap heralds a significant increase in publicly accessible compute capacity, and measures will help grow knowledge exchange between business and research experts.

"Compute, the processing power behind every AI breakthrough, is not…