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Why the UK needs Made in Britain compute
The UK has the talent and expertise to reverse its path to becoming just an AI renter
In his latest written piece for Sifted, Albion partner David Grimm makes the case for the future of British compute, calling it new oil of the 21st century.
Yet despite world-class universities and a blossoming deeptech sector, the UK owns less than 3% of global compute, much of it not optimised for AI and rarely built on UK IP. And that needs to change.
To become an “AI maker, not an AI taker,” we need sovereign infrastructure. That means:
- Backing British breakthroughs in chips, photonics, memory & interconnect
- Building a UK-IP data centre with measurable performance goals
- Acting as an anchor customer to turn demos into deployments
- Creating a flexible, innovation-led procurement system
This is about growth, leverage, and global relevance. Let’s make Britain a builder of the future, not just a buyer of it.
Read the full article HERE.
