Policy paper

UK Compute Roadmap

Our plan to build a world-class compute ecosystem that provides a platform for innovation, growth and opportunity across the economy.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and UK Research and Innovation
• Published: 17 July 2025
• Last updated: 23 April 2026
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  1. 23 April 2026

     An update to the Compute Evidence Annex. We've made changes to graphs and included a new HTML document with a breakdown of the changes 'Compute Evidence Annex: changes corrected (23 April 2026)'.

  2. 19 March 2026

     Compute Evidence Annex (published on 17 July 2025) replaced. The original content referring to DSIT’s environmental impacts model has been temporarily removed. We keep analysis under routine review, and are updating this modelling to ensure it reflects the most up to date assumptions and analysis. This section will be updated by summer 2026.

  3. 17 July 2025

     First published.

This was published under the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

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UK Compute Roadmap

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UK Compute roadmap (web optimised PDF)

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UK Compute roadmap (print-ready PDF)

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Compute Evidence Annex (replaced 23 April 2026)

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The UK Compute Roadmap will build a world-class compute ecosystem that provides a platform for innovation, growth and opportunity across the economy.

Our compute ecosystem will support a broad range of users, at the frontier of AI research as well as those adopting AI into their daily workflows. It will have a diverse and resilient mix of compute infrastructure services – spanning public and private systems, AI training as well as inference, national platforms and regional innovation hubs. Crucially, it will be dynamic and adaptable, evolving to support the technologies of tomorrow.

We are delivering a 10-point plan that sets out our ambition and provides clarity and certainty to researchers, industry and investors alike.