£17.5 million or 4% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. That’s the penalty ceiling the UK Information Commissioner’s Office locked in under a February 2026 commencement order, raising PECR fines to UK GDPR levels for the first time.
Flexible outsourcing models produce the exact failure mode they’re designed to prevent: unpredictable costs, inconsistent quality, and teams that can’t retain institutional knowledge past a single project cycle. The problem is structural, and adding more elasticity makes it worse.
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Uber’s CTO burned through the company’s entire 2026 AI budget before March ended. That detail, reported by Forbes in late April, got buried under the week’s bigger number: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta collectively spent over $130 billion on AI infrastructure in a single quarter.
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