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21 Oct 2026
AI will drive up credit cost of weak cyberdefenses, says Moody's
As Moody's links poor cyber resilience directly to higher capital costs, CISOs gain a powerful financial metric to convince boards to fund defenses.
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20 Oct 2026
CNCF's llm-d 1.0 tackles high AI inference costs
The llm-d project, now ready for production, aims to do for distributed inference on GPUs what Kubernetes did for web apps: make the most of infrastructure resources.
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20 Oct 2026
DeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs
With the move, the Chinese AI vendor is looking to gain an advantage in the open source market, while addressing enterprise concerns about steep token rates.
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21 Oct 2026
MPs ask finance regulators how they will deal with Google Cloud after outage
Tech giants, including Google Cloud, now fall in the regulatory remit of Critical Third Parties
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21 Oct 2026
Capita postpones investor event to focus on CSPS fix
Capita has pulled the plug on a planned event for investors, financial analysts and shareholders to prioritise addressing Civil Service Pension Scheme issues
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20 Oct 2026
Google Cloud power event knocks out UK banks, courts and couriers
Google runs a single UK cloud region, so when one London zone lost power, there was nowhere to failover – most services recovered by late afternoon, but courts are still down
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20 Oct 2026
Teachers’ pension transfers from Capita on eve of government’s civil service scheme decision
The government is currently deciding what to do with two failed pension outsourcing contracts as members of a third brace for upcoming switchover
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20 Oct 2026
BT spreads Global Fabric security across networks
AI-ready networking platform offers optimised secure connectivity, allowing users to scale use of AI agents, cloud applications and autonomous digital workflows
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19 Oct 2026
How quantum computing can work in enterprise IT
The latest thinking on quantum computing suggests that it will be used in application areas alongside existing high performance computing systems
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19 Oct 2026
Lenovo’s AI Express targets enterprises waiting for AI servers
Lenovo has set a 15 to 25 business day order-to-ship target for three pre-validated AI server configurations, offering faster shipments to enterprises that have struggled to get GPU kit amid a memory crunch
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15 Oct 2026
Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty
Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act
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15 Oct 2026
Canalys Channel Forum: Now is the moment for circular computing
With customers struggling to afford or source hardware, and the pressure to keep energy costs down multiplying, there is a clear case for an alternative approach
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15 Oct 2026
Canalys Channel Forum: Now is the moment for circular computing
With customers struggling to afford or source hardware, and the pressure to keep energy costs down multiplying, there is a clear case for an alternative approach
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15 Oct 2026
ORCA launches PT-3 quantum computer in London datacentre
ORCA Computing unveils PT-3 in London, a room-temperature quantum system paired with Nvidia GPUs to boost AI-driven drug discovery yield and complex energy grid scheduling
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14 Oct 2026
Internet traffic records topple as Champions League returns
Return of top-level European football sees surge in online viewership traffic at Frankfurt data exchange and other locations reach new highs
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14 Oct 2026
Why many AI companies are set to fail
Is the artificial intelligence bubble about to burst? Analyst Gartner does not expect CIOs will ramp up the amount they pay for AI inference
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14 Oct 2026
EXA Infrastructure completes major network European routes
New routes and capacity extend infrastructure company’s owned network into Europe’s key datacentre hubs and the Genoa subsea ecosystem, and extends London-to-Balkans route with Paris-Vienna
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14 Oct 2026
Starling Bank claims first banking AI trained on UK sovereign cloud
Starling says ‘transactional foundation model’ will train on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions on Civo’s UK cloud – but the data tokenises in Google Cloud first
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13 Oct 2026
Government could firm up pension insourcing position next month
A review of government pension schemes is considering insourcing and the digital options available
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13 Oct 2026
Infosys boss describes AI job fears as ‘hogwash’
Artificial intelligence will fuel demand for new skills, says chairman of Indian IT outsourcing giant
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13 Oct 2026
Data dive: The carbon bill for the UK’s datacentre boom
The UK’s existing datacentres emit about 1.5 million tonnes of CO2e a year. A 14.6GW committed pipeline would add about 12 million tonnes a year – or 38 million tonnes if it all runs on gas
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12 Oct 2026
Quantum firms receive a £50m boost
As part of a UK Research and Innovation competition, six UK organisations are receiving funding to help develop new quantum products
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12 Oct 2026
Capital, not chips, may be the real brake on the AI build-out
The world is spending about $200bn a year running AI models and getting $150bn back, Broadcom’s Hock Tan told DBS’s inaugural Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, with most enterprises yet to see a return
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12 Oct 2026
Arelion pushes backbone capacity with expanded optical spectrum
Connectivity firm and global comms tech giant complete live field trial while demonstrating approximately 21% more usable optical spectrum
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11 Oct 2026
How F1 and Lenovo shrank the sport’s travelling datacentre
Three racks of IT kit have become one in Formula 1’s travelling datacentre, and the sport has pulled telemetry processing back to the circuit so teams get their data sooner
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09 Oct 2026
ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
The Singapore transport operator can now host production Kubernetes workloads on its private cloud, and it wants most of its AI work there, too, as it tries to keep a lid on data exposure and token bills
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08 Oct 2026
Public sector risk and double standards over occupied Palestine
The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly – while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure for the occupation
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08 Oct 2026
Broadcom targets 50% VCF 9 adoption by late 2027 as AI speeds vulnerability discovery
Broadcom infrastructure software chief Ram Velaga says AI models that can find software flaws quickly are pushing VMware customers to upgrade faster, and argues enterprises should own rather than rent their AI infrastructure
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07 Oct 2026
Airtel Business claims enterprise comms first for India with IQ Gateway
DPDP-compliant platform combines fraud protection services with network insights to make conversation safer and more trusted, enabling enterprises to manage multiple service providers and comms channels
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07 Oct 2026
Channel forum: Everything you’ve been told about hardware is wrong
It feels like it’s the late 1990s again, with the channel being told that tin is back in fashion
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07 Oct 2026
Telstra expands key Australian comms corridor from Sydney to Perth
Integrated digital infrastructure business announces Perth-Sydney route adding high-capacity connectivity and resilience
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06 Oct 2026
Microsoft campus datacentre to rely on gas fuel cells until 2037
Plans show a 72MW datacentre proposed for Microsoft’s Thames Valley Park campus has just 1.8MW of grid power secured, so gas-fed fuel cells will power it until around 2037
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06 Oct 2026
Cyber insurers in Asia step up security services as market softens
Zurich Insurance is using its claims data to show organisations in Asia the potential cost of a supplier breach or cloud outage, as brokers push insurers to do more than just offer a policy
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05 Oct 2026
Vultr swoops for HPE networking scale-up switching
Cloud infrastructure company to deploy first AMD Helio AI Rack by featuring new purpose-built networking scale-up switching at its US datacentres
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05 Oct 2026
Norwegian AI firm appeals to block Google gigacenter
Local councillors welcome the prospect of becoming one of the world’s largest centres for AI computing, but a spurned rival thinks they cheated and still got a bad deal
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05 Oct 2026
NAO to investigate what went wrong in Capita’s civil service pension takeover
The transfer of the Civil Service Pension Scheme to a new administrator has been a disaster, but why?
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05 Oct 2026
UK signs innovation and tech deal with Taiwan
Agreement builds on existing collaboration between the UK and Taiwan, and aims to drive development in several areas, including semiconductors and standards around artificial intelligence
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04 Oct 2026
APAC has the datacentre demand, but turning plans into capacity is the hard part
Asia-Pacific now generates its own datacentre demand, but executives from AWS, Damac Digital and Delta Electronics say the real test is turning announced investments into working capacity
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02 Oct 2026
Members braced as Teachers’ Pension transfer approaches
The UK’s Teachers’ Pension scheme administration is set to transfer from Capita to Tata Consultancy Services
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02 Oct 2026
DWP insources Universal Credit checking work
Government department moves nearly 3,000 staff from supplier as it insources work in effort to make savings
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01 Oct 2026
NetApp aims Novus storage at AI factory bottlenecks
NetApp Insight launches for new Novus storage that scales to 100TBps to keep AI factory GPUs fed, European data sovereignty controls and six months of free AI Data Engine
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30 Sep 2026
‘Inherent sovereignty is a fallacy’ says Beyond.pl AI factory exec
Beyond.pl built central Europe’s first sovereign AI factory on Everpure and Nvidia kit – now its CEO argues the real issue is operational sovereignty, not where the box sits
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30 Sep 2026
Trust Bank cuts incident triage time to two minutes with AI agents
The Singapore digital bank is running AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to work out the likely cause of an incident before engineers join the call, with humans still deciding on the fix
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30 Sep 2026
Everpure adds data management capabilities for production AI
Everpure’s data management updates for production AI feature native MCP support, GPU acceleration and token optimisation to break down enterprise data silos
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30 Sep 2026
Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures
An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close ‘the sovereignty gap’
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29 Sep 2026
Dutch datacentre sector pitches itself as relief for an overloaded grid
European datacentre associations argue that building datacentres where renewable power is generated could ease grid congestion in the Netherlands and beyond
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25 Sep 2026
Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment
Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas
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24 Sep 2026
Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin
The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents
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23 Sep 2026
Lumen lights up Intelligent Internet for AI demands
Infrastructure provider looks to bring cloud-like agility to enterprises with internet model combining on-demand bandwidth, digital control and predictable costs
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23 Sep 2026
DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchange in southern Austria
Southern Austria’s first neutral Internet Exchange based on edge containers designed to turn the state of Carinthia into a digital hub for the Alps-Adriatic region, backed by €5.7m state investment
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23 Sep 2026
Telxius plugs in 800G coherent optical tech to boost network capacity
Global connectivity provider evolves high-capacity international network with next-generation IP-over-DWDM technology to support growing cloud, AI and datacentre connectivity demands
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23 Sep 2026
Huawei expands vision for agentic world of infrastructure
Tech and networking giant unveils compute platform based on proprietary computing architecture and key interconnect technology that makes the system possible
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22 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler
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22 Sep 2026
Capita lacks the ‘capacity and ability’ to run GP pension scheme, BMA tells MPs
The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to MP committees calling for the Capita-run GP pension scheme to be brought in-house
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22 Sep 2026
Splunk helps US research uni embrace ‘student-powered’ security
When she was asked to let IT students run its SOC, New Jersey Institute of Technology CISO Sharon Kelley ran a mile. Find out why she changed her mind, and how Splunk is helping her raise a new generation of cyber analysts
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21 Sep 2026
Barnet council bringing Capita IT work in-house after alternative contract ‘abandoned’
London Borough of Barnet’s extended IT service contract with Capita finally comes to an end
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18 Sep 2026
Data dive: London and M4 the datacentre hotspot, but not for long
A fresh count of the UK’s existing datacentres finds 1.6GW, mostly in London and the M4, while a projected 14.6GW heads north to get on the grid
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18 Sep 2026
Capita boss gets ‘obscene’ pay packet while retired civil servants need emergency loans
Adolfo Hernandez is said to have earned £1.6m in his yearly pay packet, as the government pension scheme he oversees fails to pay retirees
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17 Sep 2026
MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
Government pledges planning guidance by Christmas and environmental impact assessments for schemes of more than 50MW, with Scotland’s committed pipeline at 14 schemes and 2.4GW
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15 Sep 2026
Capita doesn’t get to ‘walk away from’ civil service pension mess, says minister
UK government minister tells a packed-out Westminster debate that Capita must sort out Civil Service Pension Scheme problems before any decision on future of scheme
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15 Sep 2026
Splunk Conf 26: Splunk hopes to build confidence in agentic AI
With trust in AI agents close to rock bottom in the popular imagination, Splunk and Cisco unveiled a series of platform enhancements designed to enhance observability and confidence in agentic AI
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15 Sep 2026
Cisco, Kets tech to integrate quantum-safe networks
Collaboration aims to demonstrate how quantum-safe security can be introduced into existing enterprise networks without requiring overhaul of existing infrastructure
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15 Sep 2026
UK Atomic Energy Authority readies US artificial intelligence collaboration
The UKAEA plans to work with the US Department of Energy to combine supercomputing power for nuclear fusion research
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14 Sep 2026
CDC chief backs datacentre standards as social licence runs short
CDC Data Centre’s Greg Boorer says the proposed national rules on water and energy will be good for the industry, but warns that years of deliberate anonymity have left operators with no community relationships to fall back on
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14 Sep 2026
NPO consortium sets out international standards for optics ecosystem
Optical comms standards summit reaches consensus on international NPO standards to lay a foundation for the industry upgrade and large-scale commercial use of near-packaged optics
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11 Sep 2026
Eurocontrol extends critical European aviation network
UK’s leading comms provider extends its contract with European air traffic management firm to continue supporting and delivering resilient network services through to 2033
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11 Sep 2026
UK government to create team to validate Capita’s data on troubled pension scheme
Cabinet Office is setting up a function to check the civil service pension scheme data provided by Capita
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11 Sep 2026
Civil service union welcomes pension scheme insourcing plan
PCS union chief met Cabinet Office minister to discuss troubled pension scheme run by Capita
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: UHCW adds an operation a day with AI
UHCW added daily theatre capacity and got correct utilisation data using Proximie’s AI as part of what partners describe as the NHS’s largest surgical AI deployment
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10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must move to full AI transformation
AWS says public sector AI adoption must move to ‘full transformation’ as it shows advanced workflow redesign yields 68% efficiency gains at its London symposium
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10 Sep 2026
Capita meeting self-imposed civil service pension targets ‘not sufficient’, says government
UK government views the outsourcer’s overall performance as ‘unacceptable’ after it reports meeting a self-imposed target
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10 Sep 2026
Qualcomm and Amazon team for next-gen AI datacentre infrastructure
Leading mobile platform provider collaborates with cloud giant across optical connectivity and customised silicon to support artificial intelligence infrastructure within datacentre networks
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09 Sep 2026
Dell touts platform play as AI demand goes beyond cloud suppliers
Enterprises and sovereign buyers are accounting for a growing share of Dell’s AI infrastructure business, and its chief strategy officer has some advice for buyers still waiting for the market to settle
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09 Sep 2026
Zayo advances network as a service with agentic networking
Digital network infrastructure provider claims first production Model Context Protocol server built specifically for networking
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09 Sep 2026
Ryanair calls for government action over Nats IT failure
The National Air Traffic Control System was not fully operational for over eight hours, causing major disruption to airlines and passengers
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08 Sep 2026
UK committed datacentre pipeline grows to more than 14GW
Barbour ABI data show UK’s datacentre pipeline has grown to 173 projects and more than 14GW of capacity, driven by AI demand and large sites in Scotland and the North East
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08 Sep 2026
Power costs curb UK advanced tech defence strategy
High energy costs and inability to manufacture hardware and frontier models limit the UK’s advanced tech defence and security capabilities
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08 Sep 2026
Interview: Huawei targets Saudi Arabia’s shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption
As enterprises move beyond artificial intelligence pilots, Huawei is positioning its cloud, computing and partner ecosystem to help organisations build scalable AI platforms while maintaining control over data, models and infrastructure
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07 Sep 2026
HP grows Saudi presence through AI, manufacturing and skills investment
With AI research, commercial manufacturing and startup development initiatives, HP is turning its Vision 2030 commitment into tangible outcomes across the Kingdom
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04 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping NHS hyperscaler dependence
Mapping NHS DNS data reveals a heavy reliance on US hyperscalers, with Microsoft 365 routing email and infrastructure for the vast majority of trusts in a tangled web of connections
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04 Sep 2026
Nvidia acquires Hugging Face and becomes open platform provider
AI acceleration hardware provider Nvidia announces the acquisition of the open model platform Hugging Face
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02 Sep 2026
AWS sets 2026 opening date for Saudi cloud region
New cloud region, AI partnerships and skills programmes underscore AWS’s growing role in supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030
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01 Sep 2026
DE-CIX expands global AI-ready connectivity with Microsoft Azure route
Dual-homed architecture across North America, Europe and Asia designed to deliver resilient, geo-redundant Microsoft Azure connectivity for latency-sensitive enterprise and AI workloads
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01 Sep 2026
Pay more, check nothing: Councils buy Microsoft but don’t test
A Computer Weekly analysis of FOI responses from 37 English councils found 32 have never run a competitive procurement in which an alternative to Microsoft could have won
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31 Aug 2026
Why AI may need fewer datacentre GPUs than you think
The focus on inferencing, allied to smaller models, purpose-built silicon and on-device processing, is loosening the grip of hyperscale GPU clusters on enterprise AI workloads
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27 Aug 2026
Nvidia results highlight 30% gap in order fulfilment
While the chipmaker posts record-breaking revenue for the quarter, its CEO admits it can only meet 70% of the supply it needs
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26 Aug 2026
EXA broadens Spanish infrastructure with long-haul route
Global digital infrastructure platform provider expands long-haul terrestrial network with direct route connecting key cities to offer critical gateway for transatlantic connectivity
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25 Aug 2026
LINX, JPIX go live with London-to-Tokyo low latency connectivity
Network route launched connecting European networks to one of Asia’s largest interconnection hubs, facilitating low latency internet and networking and local peering opportunities
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20 Aug 2026
Will Scottish datacentre ruling nudge spec builds into the open?
Scotland forces councils to flag 50MW-plus datacentre bids to ministers within seven days, as mooted gigawatt campuses prove to be vapour or stall on grid connections
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18 Aug 2026
Alibaba Cloud opens third South Korea datacentre
The Chinese cloud supplier has expanded its Korean footprint with its third datacentre as it looks to capture a bigger slice of a crowded market dominated by Western and local players
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18 Aug 2026
NXP simplifies secure industrial connectivity with MCX A5 MCUs
Chip family designed to make connection to industrial edge devices easier and to unlock trusted real-time data for AI-driven applications such as simplified industrial networking
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18 Aug 2026
SIT and IBM to build quantum security hub in Singapore
Facility will help enterprises audit their cryptographic vulnerabilities and test defences before quantum computers can crack current encryption standards
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17 Aug 2026
Natural History Museum’s ‘living laboratory’ logs 11 million environmental records in first year
More than 50 sensors feed temperature, humidity and acoustic readings into the Museum’s AWS Data Ecosystem, which found woodland soils stayed 10°C cooler in June’s heatwave
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14 Aug 2026
Supplier challenge delays Post Office Horizon replacement
Losing bidder challenges the Post Office’s decision to award Horizon replacement contract to OneView Commerce
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14 Aug 2026
STT GDC secures up to $1.37bn in green financing for Johor datacentre campus
The facility, arranged by a consortium led by UOB Malaysia, will support the development of STT GDC’s flagship Malaysia campus in Johor
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13 Aug 2026
Zayo, Nvidia team to address AI network capacity shortage
Digital infrastructure provider delivers critical network capacity to power current AI ecosystem and accelerate the next generation of AI innovation with AI chip leader’s infrastructure
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13 Aug 2026
Everpure lands second hyperscaler design win for DirectFlash
A second top-five hyperscaler is set to take Everpure’s high-capacity flash modules, looking to displace HDDs in a specific price-performance tier of the storage stack
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13 Aug 2026
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gets hybrid quantum capabilities
Oracle has partnered with Quantinuum to bring the company’s Helios system to OCI customers
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12 Aug 2026
Dubai ranks second globally in AI adoption as investment in digital infrastructure accelerates
BCG’s Intelligent Cities Index highlights how the emirate is translating artificial intelligence ambitions into large-scale deployment, supported by investments in datacentres, sovereign AI initiatives and digital infrastructure
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12 Aug 2026
HPE UK channel boss on making life easier for partners
The vendor is making hardware pricing more predictable as it continues to work towards its Power of One strategy
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12 Aug 2026
Keppel lays groundwork for Kruger cable system with IMDA licence
The infrastructure asset manager and operator secures regulatory approval for a subsea cable that will run west to the Middle East, with a final investment decision expected by the end of 2026
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11 Aug 2026
Why the next AI race will be won at the inference layer
Growing adoption of agentic AI is exposing the limitations of single-stack infrastructure, prompting enterprises to rethink how models, hardware and sovereignty are managed
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06 Aug 2026
Capita CEO receives scathing rebuttal from employee over botched contract
Capita CEO criticised after making Civil Service Pension Scheme claims in a message to staff
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05 Aug 2026
Power scarcity pushes APAC datacentre pipeline to record 26.5GW
Asia-Pacific’s datacentre development pipeline grew by 7.1GW in the first half of 2026, with Southeast Asia now accounting for half of all capacity under construction