Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of the funding for the AI Opportunities Action Plan will be allocated for improving infrastructure in the UK that AI technologies rely on, such as data centres.

The government agreed to take forward all the AI infrastructure related recommendations in the AI Opportunities Action Plan.

As part of this we’re enabling the build out of AI data centres by: establishing AI Growth Zones; classifying data centres as critical national infrastructure; and supporting delivery through planning and power reforms. These initiatives have already resulted in £45 billion in private-sector investment announced since July 2024.

In addition, at the Spending Review, we committed £1 billion to expand the UK's public compute capacity through the AI Research Resource.