By Dave Grimm

Computing power is the new oil.

As technologies like AI define progress in the 21st century, countries with the infrastructure to process vast data volumes will retain control of innovation. Today, that’s largely the US, China, and Taiwan.

For these countries, computing power is redetermining economic trajectories. Nvidia, for example, has transformed the US’s AI industry into a major export.

Huawei helps China project influence across emerging markets. In Taiwan, 25% of the economy is driven by TSMC - its ‘silicon shield’.

So, what about the UK? Well, despite world-class research at four of the world’s top ten universities, Britain remains an infrastructure ‘renter’.

It accounts for under 3% of the world’s total computing power, and very little of that is domestic intellectual property (IP). Simply put, the UK is allowing........

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