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FOI2025/00722: AI Infrastructure

Some or all of the information requested was not provided because we didn't hold it.

Case reference FOI2025/00722

Received 12 August 2025

Published 20 October 2025

Request

Request Received: 12 August 2025

1) Since Jan 2023, how much has been spent on physical AI infrastructure such as data centers?

2) Since Jan 2023, how much has been spent on AI infrastructure?

3) How much has been spent on software related to AI infrastructure or to support AI development?

4) What proportion of total AI infrastructure investment has gone to software tooling?

5) What funding has been committed specifically for agentic AI testing environments?

6) How many AI developer upskilling programs have been funded since Jan 2024?

7) How many grants or contracts have been awarded to software-based AI infrastructure since Jan 2024?

8) How many grants or contracts have been awarded to physical-based AI infrastructure since Jan 2024?

9) Estimated cost of AI Infrastructure for 2025?

To confirm, we’re interested in the AI Infrastructure of UKRI itself. All questions should be viewed through that lens.

Response

Response Sent: 9 September 2025

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) do not hold any information relevant to your request.

To explain further, UKRI does not own any AI infrastructure. This includes the central UKRI organisation and wider operations, including the STFC estate, NERC’s wholly owned centres (the British Antarctic Survey and British Geological Survey) and MRC institutes (Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Harwell).

Any use of AI is limited to third party applications and software. There are also currently no plans to develop an AI infrastructure for UKRI through 2025.

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