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)

The UK Office for National Statistics recorded digital-infrastructure spending exceeding £11 billion in 2025, driven by AI data-center demand. Nvidia’s Groq 3 LPX accelerator began full production, achieving 3,400 tokens per second on a Gemma-4 31B benchmark. Xiaomi launched a 3 nm Xring O3 mobile SoC, and IBM introduced a dual-architecture processor supporting both z/OS and Arm workloads. The UK obtained Ukrainian combat imagery for AI targeting, the FTC settled its antitrust case with Zillow, and startups are developing large-action models for robotics.