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 provide evidence-based insight on the challenges and opportunities facing the UK's digital infrastructure—from power and connectivity to supply chains, resilience, and sustainability.
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.
SCALE UK highlights and explores the issues most critical to the UK's digital future.
Capacity planning, sustainability challenges, AI compute requirements, and the power demands of modern datacentre infrastructure.
Subsea cables, backbone networks, interconnects, 5G security, and the resilience of the UK's critical communications infrastructure.
Semiconductor availability, transformer capacity, cooling equipment, and the dependencies that shape UK digital infrastructure deployment.
Testbeds, certification frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and trust frameworks for emerging technologies.
Workforce development, training pipelines, regional infrastructure clusters, and the economic opportunities of digital infrastructure investment.
As an independent, non-profit initiative, SCALE UK serves as a trusted convener—not a lobbyist. We bridge the gap between industry practice, academic research, and policy development to ensure that decision-makers have access to clear, evidence-based perspectives.
For enquiries or to explore collaboration opportunities, we'd like to hear from you.
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