Britain is preparing to put AI on the cyber front line
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being presented as both one of the greatest cybersecurity threats and one of the few technologies capable of defending against it. That tension sits at the heart of plans unveiled by the UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ, which has confirmed ambitions to develop a national cyber defence capability powered by AI agents […]
The future of AI may depend on the electricity grid
The conversation around artificial intelligence infrastructure has largely focused on semiconductors, data centres and computing power. Increasingly, however, the real constraint may be something far more fundamental: access to electricity. That challenge is reflected in the latest development at VIRTUS Data Centres’ Wustermark campus in Berlin-Brandenburg, where the company has installed two 185MVA super-grid transformers […]
The AI race is shifting from training models to running them
The next phase of artificial intelligence may be defined less by building larger models and more by finding efficient ways to deploy them at scale. That was one of the central messages emerging from Intel’s latest AI announcements at Computex 2026, where the company unveiled a series of infrastructure, processor and industry partnerships aimed at […]
Businesses are spending more on AI even when it disappoints
Artificial intelligence investment continues to accelerate across global businesses despite mounting evidence that many organisations are struggling to generate the returns they expected. New research from IDC, commissioned by Expereo, suggests that enthusiasm for AI is increasingly being driven by competitive pressure rather than proven business outcomes. While 70 per cent of organisations are now […]
The industry building AI now wants a way to slow it down
One of the more striking developments in the artificial intelligence sector is that some of the strongest warnings about the technology are now coming from the companies building it. Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, has called for the creation of a regulatory “brake pedal” for AI development, arguing that governments and society need mechanisms capable […]
AI is forcing a rethink of the humble server rack
The artificial intelligence boom is reshaping almost every layer of digital infrastructure, from power generation and cooling systems to the design of the data centre itself. Increasingly, even the server rack is becoming a strategic consideration as operators seek to accommodate larger and heavier computing equipment. Vertiv has launched Rack Extreme, a new rack platform […]
The battle over AI governance enters a new phase
As governments around the world struggle to keep pace with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, attention is increasingly shifting from the technology itself to the institutions responsible for governing it. The International Bar Association (IBA) has announced the launch of the IBA Artificial Intelligence Institute, a new initiative intended to bring legal expertise into […]
The race to build AI is becoming a race to coordinate infrastructure
The artificial intelligence boom is creating a new class of infrastructure company as investors, technology providers and energy suppliers seek to address one of the industry’s most persistent challenges: how to build digital infrastructure at the speed demanded by hyperscale AI. KKR has launched Helix Digital Infrastructure, a new company backed by more than $10 […]
Schneider Electric launches cooling system for the AI era
The race to build AI infrastructure is forcing a rethink of one of the least glamorous but most consequential elements of the data centre: cooling. As operators deploy increasingly dense clusters of GPUs to support artificial intelligence workloads, traditional approaches to thermal management are coming under growing pressure. Against that backdrop, Schneider Electric has introduced […]