UK digital infrastructure investment hit £11.2bn in 2025
Britain’s businesses put £11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting.
The jump in UK digital infrastructure investment did not come from a building spree.
Almost none of the difference is new money. The Office for National Statistics changed what counts on Monday.
What the ONS actually did
Its headline measure counts investment in telecommunications structures. On that basis, digital infrastructure investment in 2025 was £3.6bn.
The expanded measure adds data centre buildings, hardware, network software and radio spectrum permits. That produces £11.2bn.
The statisticians are blunt about what they have done. They are not identifying new investment outside existing capital formation data, they write. The expanded definition classifies a greater share of what was already there as infrastructure.
And it fell
Investment fell £0.5bn from 2024, a drop of 4.0%.
It still came third in a series running back to 1997....
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