The JISC has recently released a very useful summary report dealing with questions of how one might optimize the UK Research Infrastructure Assets (with an emphasis on thinking about them as a collective resource). The report was funded by UKRI. I cannot help but feel that a similar discussion is badly needed in the United States, though the barriers to making progress in the US are even more formidable.

The report can be found at https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/9055/1/optimising-the-uks-university-research-infrastructure-assets.pdf

There's a summary and announcement at

I'd just note that there are a few confusing details here. The report is dated March 2023, but I didn't become aware of it till earlier this month, and the announcement from JISC is dated 2 May 2023.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI