Britain’s Compute Bet: Inside the 10-Point Plan to Power the AI Economy

“Compute isn’t just infrastructure; it’s economic policy in silicon.”

The UK government’s new Compute Roadmap sets out a long-term plan to turn compute from a scattered set of assets into strategic infrastructure. It pledges up to £2 billion by 2030, a 20× expansion of the public AI Research Resource (AIRR) to 420 AI exaFLOPS, a new national supercomputer at EPCC (online early 2027), and AI Growth Zones (AIGZs) that targe…