Openreach expands collaboration with Google Cloud AI to plan its full-fibre rollout

The BT subsidiary, operator of the UK’s largest broadband network and the country’s second-largest commercial fleet, has built a digital twin of the UK’s transport and broadband infrastructure on Vertex AI, and is using Gemini Enterprise to cut engineering overhead by more than half.

Openreach, the BT subsidiary that operates the UK’s largest broadband network, has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud to bring AI into two of its most operationally intensive challenges: rolling out full-fibre broadband to 25 million premises by the end of 2026, and decarbonising a fleet of 24,000 commercial vans that collectively cover almost 200 million miles a year. The company announced the expanded partnership on Wednesday.

The fleet work is running on BigQuery. Openreach has migrated its fleet telematics data to Google Cloud and is using the platform’s geoanalytics capabilities to identify where electric vehicles can most effectively replace ...