ISAR Global

A synthesis of 41 parliamentary questions spanning 2018 to 2026 reveals a consistent pattern in which the UK Government has deepened its structural dependency on Amazon Web Services across critical public sector infrastructure whilst simultaneously demonstrating limited visibility of the scale, cost, and risk of that dependency. The October 2025 AWS outage — which disrupted the Home Office, DVLA, DWP and HMRC — exposed the practical consequences of this posture. Ministerial responses throughout the period exhibit a recurring tendency to defer accountability either to the CMA's regulatory independence or to future legislative instruments, whilst providing minimal substantive commitment to remediation.

A five-year parliamentary record on UK compute infrastructure reveals a persistent pattern of ambitious commitments, missed milestones, and recycled assurances. The 2021 pledge to deploy an exascale supercomputer by 2025 was quietly abandoned without parliamentary acknowledgement, replaced by successively reframed targets. Ministerial responses across successive governments demonstrate institutional continuity in aspiration but chronic weakness in delivery accountability.

If you've been following tech news recently, you've likely encountered something rather unsettling: MoltBook, a social network where AI agents chat amongst themselves whilst humans can only watch from the sidelines