The next frontier of start-up acceleration lies in the AI tech stack
The rise of generative and agentic AI has redefined what it means to start a company. Capital, talent, and timing still matter, but in today’s ecosystem, so does the architecture that underpins innovation. The AI tech stack is no longer a commodity layer—it is the competitive moat. Every major technological shift has created a new […]
Quantum-centric supercomputing will redefine the AI stack
Executives building for the next decade face an awkward truth, the biggest AI breakthrough may not be a larger model or faster GPU, but the arrival of quantum-centric supercomputing. That shift will change where value sits in the stack, how systems are cooled and orchestrated, and what advantage really means for enterprise workloads. The conversation […]
The invisible barrier that could decide the future of artificial intelligence
As AI workloads grow denser and data centres reach physical limits, the real bottleneck in the AI revolution is not chips or power, but heat. The next phase of compute may depend on how effectively we learn to move it. When people talk about artificial intelligence at scale, the conversation almost always turns to compute. […]
Episode 21: The Ethics Engine Inside AI
Philosopher-turned-AI leader Filippo explores why building AI that can work is not the same as building AI that should work. In this episode, he dissects the architecture of ethical intelligence, from data bias and risk governance to the cultural and philosophical questions shaping the next frontier of responsible AI.
When the cloud goes dark
The global AWS outage revealed more than a temporary loss of service. It exposed the fragility of centralised cloud systems and the urgent need for a more intelligent, distributed, and resilient approach to the infrastructure powering the AI economy. When the world’s biggest cloud service stumbles, the entire digital economy feels the tremor. On the […]
Meta is building a data center the size of Manhattan. How cool is that?
Kevin Roof, Director of Offer & Capture Management at LiquidStack, explores how Meta’s next-generation AI data centres will push cooling technology to its limits. As the company builds facilities on a scale that rivals Manhattan itself, the challenge is not just generating intelligence, it is keeping it from overheating. Meta is spending hundreds of billions […]
The new browser that knows you too well
OpenAI’s new browser, ChatGPT Atlas, blurs the boundary between tool and companion. Announced this week, it represents a significant step toward a web that does not just display information but interprets, remembers, and acts on it. Yet behind the convenience lies a growing unease among cybersecurity experts who see Atlas as a window not just […]
Vertiv and NVIDIA move to 800-volt systems to power the next generation of AI factories
The next phase of artificial intelligence may depend as much on volts as it does on algorithms. Vertiv, a global provider of digital infrastructure, has announced a major milestone in its collaboration with NVIDIA to develop 800 VDC power platform designs, intended to supply the vast electrical demands of next-generation AI data centres—often described as […]
Google’s €5 billion AI investment signals a new chapter for Europe’s digital sovereignty
Google has announced a €5 billion investment to expand its data centre infrastructure in Belgium, a move that underlines both the speed and scale of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution reshaping Europe’s digital economy. The expansion, centred on the company’s St. Ghislain campus in Wallonia, will add 300 new full-time jobs and further integrate AI […]
Cooling for the next generation of AI architectures
ZutaCore OmniTherm builds on the company’s patented two-phase, waterless liquid cooling platform. Instead of relying on water or air, the system uses a non-conductive dielectric fluid that instantly absorbs heat at the chip surface. The fluid vaporises on contact, carrying heat away without risk to surrounding electronics. The technology operates safely in any position, vertical, […]
The real AI crisis is not job loss but the widening skills gap
AI is transforming the workforce faster than most organisations can adapt, yet the most significant threat is not automation itself but the lack of readiness to work alongside it. Closing the AI skills gap will define the winners and losers of the next industrial revolution. The public conversation around artificial intelligence has been dominated by […]
AI power demand drives radical rethink of data centre energy access
The explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) has triggered a new kind of energy crisis, not of scarcity, but of access. Data centres built to run AI workloads are demanding gigawatts of power faster than utilities can deliver it, creating multi-year bottlenecks that threaten to slow the pace of digital innovation. In response, Aligned Data Centers […]
When clean data meets intelligent machines
Artificial intelligence can only ever be as intelligent as the data it consumes. As enterprises race to embed AI into decision-making, the battle for business advantage will be won not through algorithms but through data quality, structure, and governance. The story of AI adoption is, at its core, a story about data. For all the […]
Meta bets big on AI with new data centre capable of one gigawatt in Texas
Meta has begun construction on one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence (AI)-optimised data centres, a facility that will eventually be capable of delivering up to 1GW of power to support the company’s growing AI ambitions. The new campus, located in El Paso, Texas, represents Meta’s 29th global data centre and signals a deepening commitment […]
AI infrastructure heats up as ZutaCore and ASRock Rack unveil new cooling breakthrough
A new high-performance server platform promises to change how artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is built and cooled, offering a scalable way to power increasingly dense compute systems without the need for data centre overhauls. Technology firms ZutaCore and ASRock Rack have announced the launch of the ASRock Rack 4U16X-GNR2/ZC, a system that integrates the NVIDIA […]
Stop treating AI like a side project and start wiring it into the business
Executives everywhere are learning the same lesson: AI proves its value only when it is embedded in processes, data, and decisions throughout the entire end-to-end process. The organisations that outpace their peers are not chasing demos; they are redesigning journeys, instrumenting guardrails, and measuring results with the same discipline they apply to any transformation. The […]
Master data management decides whether enterprise AI scales or stalls
Enterprises keep discovering that model prowess is not the bottleneck; master data management is. Treat master data management as the operating system for AI and the path to scale opens up; treat it as housekeeping and the programme drifts from pilot to post-mortem. Executive teams have moved past novelty and into accountability. The questions now […]
Enterprise AI deployment needs open systems more than shiny models
Enterprise AI deployment is not a magic trick; it is a disciplined operating approach. The organisations that win are building on open foundations, tuning models to their business, and wiring governance into the workflow rather than bolting it on later. Executives are past the first wave of spectacle. Demos have given way to deadlines, pilots […]
Trust but verify must become the AI security operating model
AI security will not be won with a bigger budget or a new dashboard. It will be won by disciplined engineering, clear governance and a culture that treats intelligent systems as powerful but fallible tools. The phrase ‘trust but verify’ is not a slogan for AI security; it is the operating model. Michael Burch does […]
India positions for AI data center growth with liquid cooling buildout
Submer has chosen India as its manufacturing hub for Asia and set out plans to help shape a local ecosystem designed for AI-era computing. The company’s expansion, announced from Barcelona, frames India’s comparatively clean slate, fewer legacy cooling systems than developed markets, as an opening to build high-density facilities that are optimised for modern workloads […]
Distributed AI needs an internet for machines
Equinix used its inaugural AI Summit to set out a plan for running artificial intelligence across regions, clouds and edges without relying on a single factory sized data centre. The company introduced a Distributed AI infrastructure designed to support the shift from static models to agentic systems that reason, act and learn, and to do […]
UK AI build out requires liquid cooling and modular scale
Schneider Electric gathered leading voices from the UK’s data centre and AI ecosystem in London this week for a summit on how to build AI-ready infrastructure at speed, cost, and carbon levels that the country can sustain. The Partnering for AI-Ready Data Centres event, held as a flurry of national announcements signalled a rapid expansion […]
Geospatial data is the lever for infrastructure resilience
AI and infrastructure resilience matter when models meet messy reality, not slides. The organisations that win treat data as an operating asset, simplify the pipes that feed models, and accept that trust is earned by validation, not by promise. This is where reduced complexity, open standards and cultural commitment turn algorithms into resilience. Progress in […]
LiquidStack expands leadership team with key C-suite appointments
LiquidStack has announced the expansion of its leadership team to support the company’s accelerating growth and its mission to power next-generation AI workloads with advanced liquid cooling technology. Ersson Zapata has been appointed Chief Operating Officer. Zapata joins LiquidStack from CSMi Solutions, where he served as Chief Operating Officer and drove significant bottom-line growth. With […]
Episode 20: Gen Z is not waiting for your AI strategy
Gen Z is building companies with AI agents as co-founders, interns and middle managers, while legacy enterprises are still writing slide decks. In this episode, Jill Kenney, CEO of Sundae_Bar, maps the plug-and-play workflows, agent-to-agent protocols and outcome-first mindset behind this shift, and explains what leaders must change now.
Human-AI co-learning is the missing operating model for enterprise performance
Enterprises need a learning system embedded in the flow of work, not a catalogue of courses. According to Accenture’s white paper “Functions: Learning Reinvented”, Human-AI co-learning links experience, data and operations to accelerate skills growth, strengthen engagement and deliver measurable gains in innovation, productivity and profit. Enterprises have spent years treating learning as a schedule […]
Agentic AI as collaborator is rewriting the creative operating system
Agentic AI is moving from novelty to infrastructure, changing how people ideate, make, and experience culture. The shift is less about replacing talent and more about giving imagination a broader canvas, with implications that stretch from studios and film sets to vehicles, education and finance. Manon Dave approaches artificial intelligence as a working partner rather […]
Data hunger is rewriting the rules of web scraping
Video platforms have surpassed traditional text-based sources as the primary targets for large-scale scraping, highlighting how the pursuit of diverse training data is reshaping the digital economy. The race to feed multimodal AI models is redefining the balance of power on the internet, forcing executives to rethink their data strategy. Artificial intelligence systems are only […]
AI is rewriting the future of coding one conversation at a time
As AI reshapes never-thought-of industries worldwide, software development is undergoing a revolution of its own. We went from low code to no code, and now vibe coding has become the latest trend on the chart. Coding is not just about mastering programming languages anymore; it is about working with intelligent systems that can design, debug, […]
Nvidia pushes AI boundaries with Rubin CPX for massive context models
Nvidia has unveiled a new class of processor designed to handle the growing computational demands of artificial intelligence models that work with enormous amounts of data and context. The Rubin CPX GPU, announced at the AI Infra Summit, is purpose-built for so-called massive-context inference, where AI systems process millions of tokens simultaneously to generate code […]
Frankfurt closes in on London as AI drives data centre demand
Frankfurt has become only the second European city to surpass 1 gigawatt of colocation data centre capacity, underscoring how the growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is reshaping the continent’s digital infrastructure. New research from CBRE shows that the German financial hub reached 1.02GW of operational capacity in the second quarter of 2025, adding […]
Instant clusters promise a faster path to AI breakthroughs
Together AI has launched a new service designed to remove one of the most stubborn obstacles to artificial intelligence development: the slow and complex process of assembling large GPU clusters for training and inference. The company’s Instant Clusters platform, now generally available, allows engineers to deploy tightly networked NVIDIA GPUs in minutes rather than days, […]
Microsoft deal signals rising demand for AI infrastructure
Nebius has announced a multi-billion dollar agreement to provide dedicated artificial intelligence infrastructure to Microsoft, highlighting the accelerating global competition for the computing power needed to train and deploy advanced AI systems. Under the multi-year arrangement, Nebius will supply capacity from a new data centre in Vineland, New Jersey, with operations scheduled to begin later […]
CoreWeave targets next wave of AI innovation with new ventures arm
CoreWeave has launched an investment division to support start-ups building the infrastructure and applications that will define the next phase of artificial intelligence. The Nasdaq-listed cloud provider, known for data centres designed specifically for AI workloads, said its new unit, CoreWeave Ventures, will provide capital, technical expertise and access to computing resources for early-stage companies. […]
Epiosode 19: When Hackers Turn Your Tools Against You
While businesses rush to deploy AI for competitive advantage, cybercriminals are weaponizing it. Ethical hacker Andre Baptista reveals how AI is democratizing cybercrime, turning novices into dangerous threat actors, and why fighting AI-powered attacks might require embracing AI as a defence, but at what moral cost?
Spatial intelligence is the missing piece in enterprise AI
Artificial intelligence has mastered text and images, but without a deep understanding of three-dimensional space, it cannot move into the physical world. Spatial intelligence is emerging as the next competitive frontier, opening possibilities for robotics, manufacturing, and immersive commerce while challenging executives to rethink data strategies and infrastructure. Artificial intelligence has moved in impressive but […]
The cooling dilemma reshaping AI infrastructure
The rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence is straining the physical limits of data centres. A new white paper from LiquidStack, produced in collaboration with Syska Hennessy Group and Chemours, examines how different liquid cooling approaches could shape the future of high-density computing at scale. Artificial intelligence is no longer a discrete workload in data centres. […]
AI forces data centres to rethink power distribution
Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing are reshaping the fundamentals of how data centres manage electricity. The surge in demand from data-intensive workloads is pushing racks far beyond the power densities of a decade ago, creating fresh challenges in load balancing, stability and resilience. Vertiv has expanded its PowerIT rack power distribution units (PDUs) to address […]
AI governance fears loom over North American private equity
Artificial intelligence is already embedded in the daily work of private equity and venture capital managers, but a growing number of firms in North America expect restrictions on its use as concerns about governance rise. New research commissioned by Ocorian, a global provider of asset servicing, shows that more than half of mid-market private equity […]
AI set to transform the fight against insurance fraud
Artificial intelligence is moving into one of the insurance industry’s most persistent challenges: the detection of fraudulent claims. A new partnership between Aston University and Domestic & General aims to develop a system that can learn to spot fraud with a level of precision that existing approaches cannot deliver. Fraudulent activity remains a costly problem. […]
Scientists turn to AI to reveal the hidden force shaping extreme weather
For more than a century, forecasters have refined their predictions using everything from chalkboards to supercomputers. Yet one of the most important elements of the atmosphere has remained stubbornly elusive: humidity. The invisible fuel for thunderstorms, flash floods and hurricanes, water vapour often determines whether skies remain calm or unleash torrential downpours. Traditional satellite instruments […]
The generational data divide is reshaping trust in AI
Data sharing attitudes are being transformed by generational shifts, cultural expectations, and evolving notions of trust. As AI personalisation moves beyond compliance and into prediction, enterprises must balance transparency, ethics, and innovation to succeed. For years, the question of data was simple: could it be kept safe? Encryption, compliance, regulatory sign-off, the old debates centred […]
The GPU price wars are only just beginning
GPUs are the defining resource of artificial intelligence, yet the market is caught between scarcity and surplus. The fight over access is no longer just about buying chips but about how intelligently enterprises can allocate and orchestrate the capacity already in place. The modern economy runs not on oil or steel but on GPUs. These […]
Episode 18: AI must serve people not just performance
In this episode of Into The Madverse, Edosa Odaro, Senior Executive Advisor for AI & Data, challenges the obsession with model size, speed and accuracy. He argues for a value-first approach where AI is measured by the human outcomes it creates, not the technical benchmarks it achieves.
The rise of AI factories as the new engines of intelligence
AI factories are redefining the architecture of digital infrastructure, transforming data into intelligence at an industrial scale and reshaping the competitive landscape for enterprises and governments alike. This article marks the beginning of our series on AI factories, setting the stage for a closer examination of the technology, economics, and environmental concerns that will shape […]
Liquid cooling the missing piece in scalable data center infrastructure
Stuart Crump, Global Commercial Director at LiquidStack, examines how liquid cooling is emerging as a strategic platform for data centres, addressing the power demands of AI while overcoming the limitations of traditional air cooling. He explores why scalable, serviceable liquid cooling solutions are becoming essential for operators focused on sustainability and long-term infrastructure growth.It’s easy […]
Episode 17: Cooling is the hard limit of AI
As chips push past 2,000 watts, heat is emerging as the biggest threat to the future of AI. In this episode, Shahar Belkin, Chief Evangelist, at ZutaCore, explains why traditional cooling is failing, how two-phase solutions like pool boiling could redefine data centres, and why ignoring heat might stall the entire AI revolution.
The end of centralised cloud is closer than enterprises think
The AI era is exposing the cracks in centralised cloud infrastructure. As GPU demand spirals and inference workloads demand new performance profiles, decentralised models are starting to look less like an alternative and more like an inevitability. For more than two decades, enterprises have defaulted to centralised cloud for compute. It was the logical evolution […]
The hidden cost of large language models is not scale, but governance
Large language models promise fluency at an industrial scale, yet the difference between a pilot and a production system is not measured in parameters. The decisive factor is whether leaders can govern large language models with the same discipline they apply to finance, safety and cyber risk, and do so without blunting their value. The […]
Episode 16: AI hype hangover or enterprise wake-up call?
Half of all AI projects stall after pilots, but failure isn’t the end of the story. In this episode of Into The Madverse, Michael Eiden, Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal, exposes why most companies aren’t truly AI-ready, the hidden gaps in strategy and culture, and what it really takes to turn hype into impact.
AI coaching is reshaping how enterprises develop talent
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool for automating processes or crunching data. It is beginning to influence one of the most human-centric areas of business, coaching. As enterprises seek to scale personal development across workforces of tens or even hundreds of thousands, AI coaching is emerging as both a challenge and an opportunity. […]
AI is exposing the cloud’s biggest blind spot
The future of AI depends as much on what connects data centres as what runs inside them. Cloud evolution cannot outpace network design, and ignoring this truth risks bottlenecks, latency and failure across mission-critical workloads. This article is based on insights from Nokia’s white paper Network the Cloud: The Critical Role of the Network in […]
AI will not replace lawyers, but it will force them to think like product designers
The intersection of AI and law is not a contest between humans and machines. It is a shift in how legal work is conceived, delivered and valued. The firms that thrive will be those that see legal services as a product, not just a profession. The idea of AI agents replacing lawyers makes for irresistible […]
Episode 15: The AI revolution you are not seeing
Forget Rosie the robot, the real AI revolution is happening quietly in enterprise back-offices, where agentic systems are replacing vast swathes of clerical work and unlocking hidden value in billions of documents. John Bates, CEO of SER Group, explores why smart content AI is the next industrial revolution and what leaders must do now.
New modular data centre design aims to keep pace with AI’s growing power demands
A new prefabricated data centre platform has been launched to address one of the most pressing challenges in the age of artificial intelligence – how to deploy high-density computing capacity quickly, efficiently, and at scale. Vertiv’s OneCore system, unveiled yesterday, combines power, thermal, and IT infrastructure into a single factory-assembled unit designed to reduce the […]
Rising AI salaries and infrastructure costs threaten returns
UK businesses are increasing their spending on artificial intelligence at an unprecedented rate, but escalating salaries for scarce talent and uncertainty over returns are prompting concerns about the sustainability of that investment. A new survey suggests AI budgets will grow by 36 per cent this year, with average annual spending now exceeding $1 million. Yet […]
AI training partnership aims to close skills gap for small businesses
A new collaboration between Google Digital Garage and technology consultancy AND Digital is targeting one of the most urgent challenges for small and medium-sized businesses – keeping pace with rapid advances in artificial intelligence and other digital technologies. The partnership has produced eight trainer-led courses designed to equip business owners and employees with practical skills […]
Pennsylvania site set to become major hub for AI computing
A former energy site in Pennsylvania is set to be transformed into a major high-performance computing campus, with a focus on artificial intelligence workloads, following a partnership between infrastructure company Bitfarms and data centre developer T5 Data Centers. The Panther Creek site, owned by Bitfarms, will undergo pre-construction planning and design work led by T5, […]
AI security moves into the coding workflow
The latest upgrades to an AI-powered application security assistant aim to address one of the most pressing challenges in modern software development, keeping pace with the security risks posed by both human- and AI-generated code. Announced at Black Hat 2025 in Las Vegas, Black Duck Assist now operates directly within developer environments via the company’s […]
Businesses face growing AI risks from unreliable external data
New research suggests that nearly half of companies are struggling to verify the origins of external data, raising concerns over how it is used in AI and automation. A study of 1,000 decision-makers by data collection company Decodo found that 43 per cent of businesses had encountered external data with unclear or unverifiable origins. Other […]