SCALE UK

Strengthening Britain's Digital Infrastructure

SCALE UK is an independent initiative focused on the critical infrastructure that underpins the UK's digital and deep-tech economy.

We bring together expertise from industry, academia, and policy to raise insight on the challenges and opportunities facing the UK's digital infrastructure — from power and connectivity to supply chains, resilience, and sustainability.

About

Our Purpose

The UK's future in AI, advanced technologies, healthcare, defence, finance, and the creative industries depends on secure, sustainable, and resilient digital infrastructure. Yet power capacity, subsea cables, hardware supply, cooling, and workforce shortages all present real barriers.

SCALE UK exists to provide independent, evidence-based insight into these issues and to convene informed dialogue across stakeholders.

Our Approach

  • Neutral and evidence-led
  • Cross-sector collaboration
  • Practical insight for policy and industry

Focus Areas

SCALE UK highlights and explores the issues most critical to the UK's digital future:

Compute & Datacentres

Capacity, sustainability, planning

Connectivity & Resilience

Subsea cables, interconnects, backbone security

Supply Chains

Semiconductors, transformers, cooling technologies

Standards & Assurance

Testbeds, evaluation, trust frameworks

Skills & Regional Growth

Workforce development and local benefits

Insight

SCALE UK's role is to:

  • Provide clear, evidence-led perspectives on digital infrastructure challenges
  • Inform parliamentary and policy debate with neutral analysis
  • Support collaboration between industry, academia, and government

Get in Touch

For enquiries or to explore collaboration opportunities, we'd like to hear from you.

Contact Us