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21 Nov 2025
News brief: U.S. cyberdefenses take aim at foreign threats
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.
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21 Nov 2025
MCP OAuth update adds security for personalized AI
An impending update to Model Context Protocol marks an important step toward secure, personalized AI, but also shows that significant work remains to secure AI agents.
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20 Nov 2025
Veeam Data Platform update puts focus on AI, security
The new version features a range of new and improved capabilities, with a focus on data security and AI enhancements.
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21 Nov 2025
Meta announces completion of core 2Africa cable
IT behemoth reveals final phase of subsea cable connecting Africa and the world
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20 Nov 2025
UK government outlines next wave of AI investment plans
The UK government continues to build on the release of its AI Opportunities Action Plan, with the announcement of another AI Growth Zone plus investment opportunities for the nation's startup community
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20 Nov 2025
Nvidia prepares for exponential growth in AI inference
The company, famous for its datacentre AI acceleration, is focused on delivering better performance per watt to fuel the AI boom
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20 Nov 2025
Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit
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20 Nov 2025
Firstsource ditches labour arbitrage for AI-driven outcomes
The business process services firm argues that the days of simple labour arbitrage are gone as it pushes an ‘un-BPO’ strategy led by AI and automation
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19 Nov 2025
Datacentre energy demands set to soar by 2030 as AI growth accelerates, predicts Gartner
IT market watcher Gartner has shared its projections about how the energy consumption habits of datacentres are set to change as AI takes off
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19 Nov 2025
AI driving GPU demand
Refurbished specialist ETB has seen a surge in interest in components that can support more intensive workloads
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19 Nov 2025
Cisco: Network architectures must be rebuilt for agentic AI
Rising traffic volumes, AI-powered security threats and the move to agentic workflows will require organisations to modernise their network infrastructure
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18 Nov 2025
NHS signs another major IT deal with the Indian IT sector
Five-year NHS deal sees Tata Consultancy Services continue to grow its UK public sector business
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18 Nov 2025
NHS signs another major IT deal with the Indian IT sector
Five-year NHS deal sees Tata Consultancy Services continue to grow its UK public sector business
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18 Nov 2025
Groq commits up to $300m in Australia expansion
US chip startup Groq plans to invest up to $300m to provide Australian businesses with compute capacity for AI inferencing and help solve issues around data sovereignty for major users like Quantium
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16 Nov 2025
AI’s hidden sting: A threat to millions of bees
The energy demands of artificial intelligence could have a devastating impact on Australia’s honeybee population, study warns
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14 Nov 2025
Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped
ING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped
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14 Nov 2025
Zayo builds backbone for Western US AI growth
Route connects two of the US’s fastest-growing AI, cloud hubs through first direct inland path, offering a resilient, diverse alternative to the existing corridor while expanding critical access to underserved communities
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14 Nov 2025
Qatar Airways checks in SD-WAN to take operations to higher altitude
MENA airline’s worldwide roll-out of airline technology provider’s software-defined wide-area network claimed to set a benchmark for aviation connectivity and performance
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14 Nov 2025
Nokia strengthens AI datacentre network performance
Supplier enhances portfolio, claiming ‘breakthrough’ network performance for new datacentre switches, doubling throughput and interface performance with added flexibility for range of deployment scenarios
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14 Nov 2025
Lenovo to power FIFA World Cup 2026
Lenovo will provide its consumer and enterprise technology capabilities to power the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which has been deemed the most technologically advanced tournament in the game’s history
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13 Nov 2025
CBRE charts rise of neocloud providers within European colocation market
Real estate consultancy CBRE’s latest colocation market tracker shines a light on the impact neocloud providers are having on the supply and demand dynamics of the European datacentre market
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13 Nov 2025
UK government vows to fast-track AI growth zone planning and energy access
On the same day the UK government confirms the location of its next AI growth zone, in North Wales, it also makes a series of pledges about fast-tracking planning and energy access to these artificial intelligence hubs
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13 Nov 2025
National Grid to extend Didcot substation in support of UK datacentre growth
National Grid is continuing with its work to ensure the nation’s electricity grids have the capacity to cope with the UK’s growing number of datacentres
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12 Nov 2025
IT services companies and datacentres face regulation as cyber security bill reaches Parliament
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will require large IT services companies, including datacentres, to report security incidents within 24 hours
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07 Nov 2025
Government showcases UK quantum computing pledge
With £670m set aside, the government is keen to show how the funding is supporting quantum innovation
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06 Nov 2025
Blackpool Council preps datacentre planning application for tech-focused town regeneration bid
After setting out its ambition to embark on building a tech-focused regeneration project, Blackpool Council has revealed it is prepping a planning application for a datacentre, and has submitted a bid to become one of the UK government’s AI growth zones
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05 Nov 2025
From ambition to action: How the Gulf is turning responsible AI into a global reality
The Middle East is rapidly advancing in artificial intelligence and digital transformation, driven by strong government strategies. Success in the region requires trust, cultural awareness and alignment with local regulations
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05 Nov 2025
Insurer Vitality forges closer ties with Google for AI-powered customer health boost
Health insurance firm Vitality wants to help its customers take a more preventative approach to managing their health and fitness, with the help of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence portfolio
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05 Nov 2025
Verizon Business, AWS seal fibre deal to accelerate AI applications at scale
Comms provider and hyperscaler unite on network infrastructure and suite of products designed to enable global enterprises to deploy AI workloads at scale
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04 Nov 2025
Unequal access: The digital divide in criminal justice
Access to expert digital forensic analysis is biased towards the prosecution, says criminal defence
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04 Nov 2025
G42 and Cisco expand strategic partnership to drive AI innovation and infrastructure growth
The UAE-based tech group and global networking giant will co-develop secure AI infrastructure and cyber security solutions to support high-performance computing and datacentre growth
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31 Oct 2025
Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide
US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server
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30 Oct 2025
Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act promises to fill Meta’s coffers
The owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram is spending billions on new datacentres for artificial intelligence
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30 Oct 2025
Equinix acquires DC01UK’s mega-datacentre site in Hertfordshire and plots £3.9bn investment
Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a plot of land in Hertfordshire where datacentre developer DC01UK secured planning permission to build a hyperscale campus in January 2025
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30 Oct 2025
Peer angry as sales figures suggest Fujitsu has weathered Post Office scandal storm
Japanese IT supplier managed to grow its UK public sector business last year despite the fallout from the Post Office scandal
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29 Oct 2025
Nokia, Zayo team on future-ready IP network infrastructure
Upgraded IP network architecture seeks to provide operator’s customers with faster, broader set of services, including cloud access, datacentre connectivity and secure high-speed links
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29 Oct 2025
Vintage rail freight system showcases 50-year-old innovation
A system from national rail operator British Rail in 1975 used distributed computing and a 400km data network to track freight
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29 Oct 2025
Saudi Arabia partners with Humain and Qualcomm to power next global AI frontier
A collaboration to deploy advanced AI infrastructure positions Saudi Arabia as a global hub for intelligent computing
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28 Oct 2025
UK citizens raise red flags over environmental impacts of datacentres in poll
A poll of 1,000 UK citizens reveals deep concerns about the energy and water usage habits of the nation’s growing footprint of datacentres
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28 Oct 2025
Qualcomm gears up for AI inference revolution
Rack-based AI acceleration hardware is being positioned as a cost-effective and straightforward way to power AI inference workloads
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27 Oct 2025
BDO Unibank taps Zscaler to secure cloud migration
Zscaler’s deal with the Philippine bank comes as it is expanding its platform’s capabilities and footprint across Asia
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24 Oct 2025
UK ramps up ransomware fightback with supply chain security guide
Multinational guidance, developed by the UK and Singapore, is designed to help organisations reinforce their supply chain against ransomware attacks
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24 Oct 2025
AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion
Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region
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23 Oct 2025
Capita rubbishes Public Accounts Committee report claims
The outsourcing giant has missed IT deadlines, stoking fears it won’t be ready to take over the civil service pension contract
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23 Oct 2025
AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime
Days after its largest US datacentre region experienced a lengthy outage, causing service disruption to web users across the globe, Amazon Web Services issues an explanation and apology regarding what happened
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23 Oct 2025
UAE’s datacentre boom powers AI ambitions and digital sovereignty
Surging investments in cloud infrastructure and hyperscale capacity position the UAE as a regional digital powerhouse and a magnet for global tech giants
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22 Oct 2025
Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era
Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption
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22 Oct 2025
Government faces questions about why US AWS outage disrupted UK tax office and banking firms
The government is facing questions about why a multi-hour outage originating in a US-based cloud region belonging to Amazon Web Services caused service disruption to UK banking giants and HM Revenue and Customs
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22 Oct 2025
Container storage: Five key things you need to know
We look at container storage and backup, diving deep into how storage works in containers, container storage interface, container-native storage, and the management platforms storage suppliers offer
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21 Oct 2025
Dell Technologies accelerates AI and digital transformation across the Middle East
Through strategic partnerships and innovations unveiled at Gitex 2025, Dell is helping UAE organisations harness AI, multi-cloud, and edge computing to drive faster, smarter business transformation
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20 Oct 2025
France’s Atos eyes UK public sector with investment in secure UK infrastructure
French IT services supplier invests in highly secure and accredited UK-based infrastructure
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20 Oct 2025
Nscale founding director exits AI infrastructure provider in wake of $1.1bn investment round
Much-hyped artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nscale has parted ways with one of its founding directors, Companies House documents confirm
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20 Oct 2025
Du racks up 1 Tbps Middle East milestone
Leading UAE operator Du achieves record-breaking peak traffic through its datamena platform and marks milestone for internet exchange in the Middle East to reach performance level
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16 Oct 2025
Questions over size of government’s legacy IT estate pose AI adoption issues
Two House of Commons committees have turned their attention this week to the lack of transparency concerning the size of the government’s legacy IT estate, and what this means for its ability to adopt artificial intelligence technologies
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16 Oct 2025
Gitex 2025: Aramex partners with AWS to accelerate global IT modernisation
UAE-based logistics giant completes the migration of its Oceania datacentre to AWS, marking the start of a global transformation to build an AI-ready, cloud-native infrastructure
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15 Oct 2025
AI-ready companies turning network pilots into profit
Research finds ‘pacesetter’ companies significantly more likely to move network AI pilots into production, and 50% more likely to report measurable value from AI
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15 Oct 2025
Real-time analytics tops priorities for 82% of IoT enterprise
Research finds IoT is evolving from simple data collection to process automation, with enterprises starting to layer additional services like AI and machine learning to process data from IoT deployment
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15 Oct 2025
Calls for more government support and faster investment if UK to lead in quantum computing
The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s inquiry into DSIT’s priorities hears evidence about the risk posed to the UK’s ability to lead in the field of quantum computing without more government support
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14 Oct 2025
Shameless Fujitsu boss confident firm will be back in ‘good books’ in 18 months
Pressure is mounting on Fujitsu as its internal culture and lack of genuine regret over its part in the Post Office scandal are revealed by Computer Weekly
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14 Oct 2025
Khazna leads UAE’s global AI push with massive datacentre expansion
Announced at Gitex Global 2025, Khazna is accelerating its international and domestic expansion, providing the AI-ready infrastructure underpinning the UAE’s ambition to become a global technology leader
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13 Oct 2025
Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric
Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres
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09 Oct 2025
Salesforce rolls into ITSM with Slack-based agentic AI platform
Salesforce hopes to turn Slack customers into ITSM users.
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09 Oct 2025
Meta to boost APAC connectivity with subsea cable
The 8,000km Candle subsea cable is expected to bolster internet capacity for more than a billion people as tech giants continue to invest in digital infrastructure across the region
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08 Oct 2025
Fujitsu boss said Post Office inquiry report wasn’t ‘that bad’, despite link to suicides
Computer Weekly reveals callous comments made by a senior Fujitsu executive about Post Office scandal inquiry report
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08 Oct 2025
How OpenAI’s AMD bet raises the stakes in GPU dominance
The OpenAI partnership with AMD gives it the option to invest directly in the chipmaker
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07 Oct 2025
Middle East cloud ambitions get boost from IBM-AWS partnership
With demand for AI, datacentres, and smart city tech rising, Riyadh Innovation Hub promises tailored solutions for the region
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06 Oct 2025
Government urged to scrutinise datacentre developers’ environmental claims
Report by environmental non-profit Foxglove suggests the government’s pro-datacentre agenda could derail the UK’s decarbonisation efforts
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06 Oct 2025
Data sovereignty demand pushes Herabit to get S3 storage
Italian service provider gets Cubbit DS3 distributed S3 storage to provide up to 2PB of cloud services to customers demanding data sovereignty, while cutting costs by up to 50%
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06 Oct 2025
Enterprise software sales through cloud hyperscale marketplaces set to hit $163bn by 2030
Research from IT market watcher Omdia suggests enterprise IT buyers are getting increasingly comfortable with making purchases through the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud marketplaces
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05 Oct 2025
Nakivo expands Proxmox backup and DR capabilities in v11.1
Latest version of Backup & Replication adds MSP features, plus Proxmox VM backup functionality, while Nakivo responds to critical vulnerability it was tipped off about in February
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01 Oct 2025
North Wales Police pilots hybrid quantum emergency response
A hybrid quantum solver accessed through D-Wave’s cloud has been used to halve police incident response times in Wales
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01 Oct 2025
Zen Internet launches Meraki to deliver SD-WAN portfolio
Zen Internet introduces software-defined wide-area network offer to address needs of businesses as IT budgets come under increasing under pressure while cyber threats rise
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30 Sep 2025
Infinidat doubles InfiniBox Hybrid array capacity
Enterprise array maker boosts capacity by two times to 33PB, promises high-density QLC flash drives in the fourth quarter, and adds native object storage that can be set up as customers configure volumes
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30 Sep 2025
Zayo, Equinix develop AI network framework
Tailored connectivity solutions and managed services provider teams with datacentre firm to develop a common model for the underlying infrastructure required to scale for the next phase of AI
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30 Sep 2025
Cisco unveils software to accelerate quantum networks
IT and networking giant claims first of its kind network-aware distributed quantum compiler capable of running quantum algorithms across multiple processors while handling error correction across a network
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30 Sep 2025
Cloudian launches object storage AI platform at corporate LLM
Object storage specialist teams up with Nvidia to provide RAG-based chatbot capability for organisations that want to mine in-house information in an air-gapped large language model
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29 Sep 2025
Finland government tax proposal worries datacentre investors
Finland, like other Nordic countries, is targeting datacentre investment, but could tax reforms scupper this plan?
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26 Sep 2025
Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight
Microsoft’s own documentation confirms that data hosted in its hyperscale cloud architecture routinely traverses the globe, but the tech giant is actively obfuscating this vital information from its UK law enforcement customers
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26 Sep 2025
Amazon joins coalition to reduce water usage habits of AI datacentres
Amazon is joining forces with academics, research groups and utility firms to reduce the water usage habits of datacentres, and also find ways that AI can help tackle the problem of water scarcity in some regions of the world
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26 Sep 2025
AI infrastructure provider Nscale secures $1.1bn in series B funding
A week after it was revealed that Nscale would be working with Microsoft to build the UK's largest supercomputer, the company announces it has secured $1.1bn in series B funding
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25 Sep 2025
Green energy microgrids hailed as cost-effective answer to UK’s datacentre energy supply woes
Research from the Centre for Net Zero claims green energy microgrids could be a more cost-efficient alternative to nuclear small modular reactors when it comes to powering the UK’s datacentres
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25 Sep 2025
Dell and Lenovo hand partners fresh products to pitch
Hardware suppliers identify private cloud and the SME market as areas where they and their channels can make an impact
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25 Sep 2025
Brightsolid expands national network with diverse 100Gbps optical connectivity
Strategic partnership issues assurance to deliver what it claims will be ‘ultra-fast’ resilient connectivity from Scotland to London, supporting UK digital infrastructure growth
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25 Sep 2025
Government launches AI growth zone taskforce to support expansion in North East England
The UK government is launching a coalition to support the accelerated development of its AI growth zone in the North East England
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25 Sep 2025
Lenovo targets AI and hybrid cloud to drive APAC growth
The tech supplier’s infrastructure arm is tapping its partner ecosystem and as-a-service model to help the region’s enterprises move from AI experimentation to delivering tangible business outcomes
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24 Sep 2025
FT 250 executives call for UK grid upgrades to support AI datacentre expansion plans
A poll by the Energy Networks Association reveals FTSE 250 attitudes towards the state of the UK’s electrical grids
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24 Sep 2025
Digital Catapult sets sights on boosting AI take-up in agrifood sector
Innovation organisation announces details of its agrifood startup accelerator programme, which is geared towards boosting adoption of artificial intelligence in the sector
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23 Sep 2025
Podcast: How to get value from unstructured data
In this podcast, we talk to Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez about the obstacles to getting the most value from enterprise unstructured data, especially via metadata
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21 Sep 2025
NUS supercomputer enters global Top500
Dubbed Hopper, the supercomputer can perform 25 quadrillion calculations per second and is already fast-tracking research in fields from biomedical engineering to clean energy applications
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19 Sep 2025
UK cyber action plan lays out path to resilience
A report produced for the government by academics at Imperial College London and the University of Bristol sets out nine recommendations to strengthen the UK’s cyber sector
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19 Sep 2025
Huawei unveils interconnects to address large-scale AI infrastructure bottlenecks
IT and networking giant announces technology designed to set standard in compute power for AI-driven workloads
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17 Sep 2025
Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty
Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust
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17 Sep 2025
Microsoft to invest $30bn in expanding its operations and AI infrastructure footprint in UK
Microsoft is making its biggest ever investment in building out its AI and general operations in the UK, citing the government’s commitment to making it easier for big tech to thrive in the country
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17 Sep 2025
Government confirms North East as location of second AI growth zone
UK government has selected two sites near to Newcastle as the home of its second AI growth zone, with one of them confirmed to be housing compute infrastructure for OpenAI's Stargate UK initiative
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16 Sep 2025
UK government signs US partnership to deliver Europe’s largest AI factory
Some 120,000 GPUs are set to be deployed in the UK over the next 12 months, as the government says it’s laser-focused on attracting talent and startups
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16 Sep 2025
Waltham Cross to get heating from Google datacentre
There is potential to attract talent to the region as Google pushes out its renewables-powered datacentre strategy
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16 Sep 2025
National Grid partners with AI firm to test dynamic management of datacentre energy demands
National Grid is partnering with Emerald AI for a live trial to test how the pressure artificial intelligence datacentres place on the grid could be altered according to workload demands
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16 Sep 2025
Turkish state tightens grip on comms
Turkish subscriptions to fixed broadband were the lowest in Europe in 2024 and half as common as those in more developed countries
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16 Sep 2025
Startup Carbon3.ai sets sights on building UK-wide sovereign ‘national grid for AI’
Startup Carbon3.ai has a goal to link 30-plus UK-owned and operated datacentre sites across the UK that will host sovereign AI services
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16 Sep 2025
eEVOS brings GUI-accessible VMware alternative for SMEs
eEVOS from EuroNAS plays in the same space as ProxMox, but isn’t free. It does, however, offer a graphical UI so customers don’t need to flex the Linux CLI skills to use it
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12 Sep 2025
TechUK report on datacentre water usage habits criticised
Non-profit questions the reliability of TechUK’s study on water use, arguing that its anonymous, self-reported data may give a misleading picture of the sector’s environmental impact.
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11 Sep 2025
Nokia ups the ante in AI-optimised datacentre networking
Strategic partnership designed to bring AI-optimised datacentre solutions to enterprises to reduce deployment time and operational costs and improve efficiency
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10 Sep 2025
Could an environmental legal challenge derail government’s fast-tracked datacentre builds?
The UK government is under fire after details emerged that it has waved through three large-scale datacentre planning applications without conducting an environmental impact assessment first
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10 Sep 2025
HPE channel boss praises partner Q3 impact
The lid is lifted on the role the channel played in delivering the vendor’s decent quarterly numbers