{"id":363808,"date":"2026-03-25T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363808\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:29:09","slug":"openreach-taps-google-ai-to-speed-fibre-rollout-cut-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/363808\/","title":{"rendered":"Openreach taps Google AI to speed fibre rollout, cut emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">By Sam Tabahriti<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Openreach has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to \u200cuse <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> to speed up fibre \u200cbroadband construction and cut emissions from one of Britain&#8217;s largest \u200bcommercial vehicle fleets, the BT-owned network operator said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Openreach, which runs the country&#8217;s biggest broadband network, said the partnership, first reported by Reuters, uses Alphabet-owned \u200cGoogle&#8217;s data tools \u2060to analyse routes, idling and fault patterns across its 24,000-van fleet, which covers almost \u2060200 million miles (322 million km) a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;By applying Google Cloud&#8217;s technologies to real operational challenges, we&#8217;re seeing \u200bpractical, \u200bmeasurable benefits,&#8221; James Tappenden, \u200ba managing director at \u200cOpenreach, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The company said the system was already reducing unnecessary travel, cutting fuel use and supporting a faster shift to electric vehicles &#8211; a move it said that had removed around 10,000 tonnes of CO2 \u200cequivalent annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The network builder said \u200bit was also using Google&#8217;s \u200bAI models to \u200bmap 35 million homes and national \u200ctransport corridors, allowing planners to \u200bidentify where \u200bfull-fibre lines can be installed more quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Openreach is investing 15 billion pounds ($20.1 billion) to roll out \u200bits fibre \u200cnetwork to 25 million premises by the \u200bend of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">($1 = 0.7459 pounds)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Sam Tabahriti; \u200bEditing by Alex Richardson)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) &#8211; Openreach has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to \u200cuse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,4400,8815,61,60,164194,50276,80],"class_list":["post-363808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-fibre-network","tag-google-cloud","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-network-operator","tag-openreach","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}