The U.K. no longer has a supercomputer in the top 50, according to new data from the , which ranks the 500 most powerful nondistributed computer systems globally.
The country’s current national supercomputer system, , is approaching end-of-life in 2026. According to the latest figures, it’s also now globally, down from 49th and .
This downward trajectory comes shortly after the new Labour government plans by the previous government to invest £800 million (around $1 billion) in a new “” supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh.
Professor , who has worked at the university’s since 1994, said it would be a “disaster” if the U.K. didn’t reverse course on supercomputing investment. “We can’t be a country the scale of Britain without a supercomputer,” he said in an . “It would block the advancement of U.K. science and innovation.”