UK's Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed £11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data center surge (Tom Rees/Bloomberg)
UK digital infrastructure investment reached £11B in 2025, reflecting AI-driven data center spending at dot-com-era levels.
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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-24/uk-digital-investment-soars-to-dot-com-boom-levels-on-ai-rollout"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260824/i24.jpg" vspace="4" /></a>
<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260824/p24#a260824p24" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Tom Rees / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-24/uk-digital-investment-soars-to-dot-com-boom-levels-on-ai-rollout">UK's Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed £11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data center surge</a></b></span> — Businesses pumped more than £11 billion ($15 billion) into Britain's digital infrastructure last year in the rush … </p>
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