AIRR Expansion AI Cloud Compute
Details
| Contract Title: | AIRR Expansion AI Cloud Compute |
| Published Date: | Feb 5, 2026 |
| Notice Type: | Notice (PriorInformationNotice) |
| Value Banding: | High Value |
| Delivery Point: | United Kingdom |
Description:
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is responsible for delivering the UK’s ambitions set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan, and the UK Compute Roadmap, including expanding the existing advanced compute capacity of the AI Research Resource (AIRR). AIRR currently comprises of two AI-optimised supercomputers (Dawn at University of Cambridge and Isambard-AI at University of Bristol). The UK government has committed to expanding this compute capacity 20x by 2030 through a bl...