UK Autumn Budget 2026: Tech Industry Welcomes New Incentives for Digital Infrastructure and Datacenter Development

10/29/2026

UK tech and business leaders react to Autumn Budget 2026 measures on AI investment, startup funding, business rates and tax simplification.

10/29/2026

Will the new Data Centre Covenant really make all that much difference?

10/29/2026

Campaigners dismiss the Budget covenant as a voluntary smokescreen, while developers warn that priority grid access means little without the substations to deliver it

10/28/2026

Healey’s Autumn Budget covenant makes grid priority and on-site generation conditional on community investment, jobs and water protection, weeks after MSPs paused Scotland’s pipeline

10/28/2026

In his Autumn Budget, chancellor John Healey announced more funding for sovereign tech and AI safety

10/28/2026

Chancellor also discussed aims to help the public benefit from AI upsides

10/28/2026

UK data centers used for critical services will be given priority access to the grid and the authority to generate power on site, under new rules aimed at speeding up construction of essential...