Hyperscaler, help! HMRC waves £500 million at the cloud for painful migration

Spanks a further £280 million on Fujitsu in the meantime

Jun 30, 2025 7:38 AM 3 min read

The UK’s tax authority is paying controversial IT supplier Fujitsu a fresh £280 million without any competitive tender, it confirmed on June 24.

That’s to keep applications tied to ageing hardware in three Fujitsu data centres running until 2028 – ahead of a planned migration to the cloud.

Days after HMRC revealed the contract extension, it said that it was procuring a cloud provider to handle a mighty lift-and-shift to the cloud.

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Noah Bovenizer

Noah Bovenizer is a reporter with The Stack. He previously covered the transportation sector for Global Data. He has a first class degree in journalism and has also worked as a newsreader for Gaydio.