Formula One is becoming the proving ground for enterprise AI
Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to helping Formula One teams analyse race data faster. It is beginning to reshape how elite engineering organisations collaborate, share expertise and accelerate innovation, creating a model that extends well beyond motorsport. That shift was evident at Silverstone ahead of the British Grand Prix, where Aston Martin Aramco Formula […]
AI is redefining what sustainable infrastructure looks like
Artificial intelligence is changing more than the scale of data centres. It is also reshaping the technologies operators are choosing to reduce energy consumption, extend infrastructure lifecycles and prepare facilities for increasingly demanding workloads. That shift is reflected in the latest recognition for Legrand’s Keor FLEX modular uninterruptible power supply (UPS), which has been named […]
Healthcare is discovering that AI depends on infrastructure
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across healthcare is drawing attention to a less glamorous but increasingly important question: can the infrastructure supporting hospitals keep pace with growing digital dependence? While much of the debate around AI in healthcare focuses on diagnostics, clinical decision support and operational efficiency, the effectiveness of those technologies ultimately relies […]
The generation that is not waiting to be managed
A generation entering the workforce under economic pressure is not waiting for organisations to modernise. It is building alternative operating models where AI agents replace structure, compress teams, and redefine how work is executed. The assumption that work must be organised before it can be executed is beginning to fracture. For decades, organisations have treated […]
When AI learns to hack
Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity, but not in the way most organisations expected. The immediate danger is not machine autonomy but human intent, because AI is lowering the cost of attack, widening the pool of capable adversaries, and accelerating an arms race that was already asymmetrical. For much of the last decade, public anxiety about […]
Why business logic may matter more than AI models
The challenge facing enterprise artificial intelligence is no longer access to models. It is whether organisations can trust those models to make decisions in ways that are consistent, explainable and aligned with how their businesses actually operate. That issue sits at the heart of a new set of capabilities unveiled by Alteryx, which argues that […]
The next battle in AI is not intelligence but economics
As businesses rush to deploy autonomous AI agents across their operations, a new challenge is emerging that could determine the pace of enterprise adoption: the growing cost of running them. Much of the public conversation around artificial intelligence has focused on model capabilities and the rise of agentic AI systems capable of completing increasingly complex […]
The next AI challenge is not building agents but controlling them
The conversation around artificial intelligence is moving into a new phase. For much of the past three years, organisations have focused on experimenting with chatbots, copilots and large language models. Increasingly, attention is shifting towards a more complex question: how do businesses govern thousands of AI agents operating across critical workflows? That challenge sits at […]
Can conversational AI help keep an ageing population independent
The debate around artificial intelligence in healthcare often focuses on diagnostics, drug discovery and clinical decision-making. Increasingly, however, attention is turning to a more immediate challenge: how technology might help societies support growing numbers of older people living independently. That question is at the centre of a new pilot involving Sentai, a conversational AI platform […]
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 […]
LiquidStack expansion highlights the growing challenge of scaling AI infrastructure
The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure is increasingly becoming a race to build the physical systems that support it. While much of the attention surrounding AI has focused on increasingly powerful processors and ever larger models, a less visible challenge is emerging inside data centres: how to deploy cooling infrastructure quickly enough to keep […]
ZutaCore funding reflects a growing reality that AI’s future depends on cooling
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is creating a new infrastructure challenge that extends well beyond processors, models and software. As chip performance accelerates and power densities rise, the ability to remove heat efficiently is becoming a defining constraint on future AI growth. Against that backdrop, cooling specialist ZutaCore has announced a Series C funding […]
Episode 31: The AI boom is about to boil the data centre
Kevin Roof from LiquidStack explains how as GPU densities surge towards megawatt-scale racks liquid cooling, modular infrastructure and radically new data centre architectures are reshaping the future of AI infrastructure before the industry melts under its own success.
The AI boom is creating a new battle for power and infrastructure
The race to develop more capable artificial intelligence systems has captured most of the headlines, but a growing debate within the technology sector suggests the real challenge may lie elsewhere. As AI investment accelerates, attention is increasingly shifting towards the infrastructure needed to support it, from power networks and cooling systems to the physical design […]
The race to build AI is becoming a race to secure power
The artificial intelligence boom is often framed as a battle between technology companies developing ever more capable models. Increasingly, however, the decisive competition may be taking place elsewhere. As AI systems demand unprecedented levels of computing power, the ability to secure energy, deploy infrastructure quickly and bring new capacity online is emerging as one of […]
The AI that builds a better society
Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a race defined by scale, speed and computational power. The more important question is whether these systems are shaping a future that strengthens human agency or quietly erodes it. The conversation around artificial intelligence has become increasingly technical. Headlines focus on model size, benchmark performance and competitive advantage, creating […]
Episode 30: The power struggle behind the AI infrastructure boom
Mark Venables speaks to Pablo Ruiz Escribano from Schneider Electric about megawatt racks and liquid cooling to power accessibility, grid integration and the race to deploy AI infrastructure faster than engineering culture can adapt.
Episode 29: Chasing efficiency while AI rewrites human judgement
In this episode of Into The Madverse, Mark Venables speaks with David Weinstein, CEO at KayOS, and an AI strategist and systems thinker, about why the next phase of AI is not about replacing people, but scaling human intuition, interpretation, and curiosity.
AI Startups: When AI is forced to confront trust
Artificial intelligence has become more capable, but that has only made its weaknesses more consequential. In this fifth article of seven drawn from AI startup companies presenting at NVIDIA GTC in San Jose, the focus shifts to start-ups tackling risk, authenticity, hallucination, and trust, where the challenge is no longer what AI can do, but […]
The inference age will punish narrow networks
Artificial intelligence is shifting from experimentation to continuous operation, and the infrastructure beneath it is becoming the real battleground. As inference pushes decision-making into real time, enterprises are discovering that networks once treated as utilities now determine whether AI delivers value or quietly fails at scale. Artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation into operation, and […]
Europe is redesigning the data centre for the age of AI
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is forcing a rethink of one of the technology sector’s most overlooked challenges: how data centres should be designed, operated and maintained in a world where computing demands are rising faster than traditional infrastructure models were built to accommodate. That question sits at the heart of a new partnership […]
Meta turns to custom silicon as agentic AI shifts the balance of compute
Meta has agreed to bring tens of millions of custom processor cores from Amazon Web Services into its infrastructure, signalling a deeper shift in how large-scale artificial intelligence systems are being built and powered. The move centres on the deployment of AWS Graviton processors, a family of Arm-based chips designed by Amazon, which will now […]
Autonomous systems move from ambition to infrastructure as enterprise AI takes control
A deepening partnership between ServiceNow and Google Cloud signals a shift in how artificial intelligence is being deployed across large organisations, moving from isolated tools towards coordinated systems capable of acting independently across entire operations. Announced at Google Cloud Next, the collaboration introduces a set of AI-driven solutions designed to allow software agents to detect, […]
Europe scales up AI factories as compute demand begins to outgrow traditional infrastructure
Nebius is planning a 310 MW AI facility in Lappeenranta, Finland, a development that reflects the growing scale and industrialisation of artificial intelligence infrastructure across Europe. The proposed site, described as an AI factory, will be one of the largest dedicated deployments of AI compute in the region when fully operational. Initial capacity is expected […]
Gigawatt scale AI infrastructure begins to redefine the limits of industrial development
Crusoe has announced plans to build a 900 megawatt AI data centre campus in Abilene, Texas, a project that underlines how artificial intelligence is driving a new phase of infrastructure expansion measured not in megawatts, but gigawatts. The facility, designed to support large-scale AI workloads for Microsoft, will include two new buildings and an on-site […]
Britain races to deploy AI while governance struggles to keep pace
New research commissioned by Red Hat suggests that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence across UK organisations is outstripping the systems designed to control it, raising questions about how enterprises will manage risk as AI becomes embedded in core operations. The study, conducted by Censuswide across 500 IT leaders in the UK, France, Germany and […]
AI startups: Where AI reshapes how work gets done
Enterprise workflows have long been shaped by software that organises information rather than understands it. In this fourth article drawn from companies presenting at NVIDIA GTC, the focus shifts to start-ups embedding intelligence directly into decision-making, automation, and knowledge systems, where AI is no longer assisting work, but beginning to redefine how it is executed. […]
Europe pushes quantum and AI closer as cloud platforms expand experimental compute
OVHcloud has made a further move to expand access to quantum computing through the cloud, integrating a photonic quantum system developed by Quandela into its existing platform. The addition of the Belenos quantum computer, offering 12 qubits of compute capacity, forms part of OVHcloud’s Quantum Platform, which provides quantum computing resources through a cloud-based, consumption […]
The expansion of AI is forcing computing into spaces not designed to support it
Vertiv has introduced a new wall-mounted cooling system for small IT environments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, reflecting a broader shift in how artificial intelligence and distributed computing are reshaping the physical demands of digital infrastructure. The system, Vertiv CoolPhase Wall, is designed for edge deployments and compact data rooms where traditional cooling […]
New approach to power use suggests AI growth may not overwhelm the grid
Stellium Datacenters has reported a 75 per cent reduction in carbon emissions at its Newcastle-based facility after adopting a new method of sourcing electricity, offering a potential model for how AI infrastructure can expand without placing unsustainable strain on energy systems. The site, one of the UK’s larger purpose-built high performance computing data centre campuses, […]
Austrian data centre reveals how AI is redrawing Europe’s industrial map
Google has begun construction of a new data centre in Kronstorf, Austria, marking a further expansion of the physical infrastructure required to support artificial intelligence and digital services across Europe. The facility is intended to meet growing demand for Google’s platforms, including Search, YouTube, Maps and Workspace, while extending the company’s AI capabilities. It also […]
AI moves onto the factory floor as edge infrastructure reshapes industrial computing
Siemens has introduced an updated version of its Industrial Automation DataCenter, signalling a shift in how artificial intelligence is being deployed within manufacturing environments, moving from centralised systems into real-time operations at the edge. Presented at Hannover Messe 2026, the platform has been redesigned as an AI-ready infrastructure, integrating accelerated computing from NVIDIA and cybersecurity […]
The systems that no longer wait for humans
The infrastructure that once existed to support human workflows is being rewritten to support machine ones. As AI agents begin to plan, execute and iterate independently, the challenge for enterprises is no longer adoption, but whether their operating models can survive the transition. There has been a quiet but consequential shift in how artificial intelligence […]
Editing is shifting from craft to collaboration with AI agents
The process of video production has long been defined by manual effort, from logging footage to assembling sequences and managing vast archives of media. As demand for content accelerates, that model is coming under increasing strain, prompting a shift towards systems that can interpret, organise and act on media in ways that were previously the […]
Sovereign cloud becomes the new battleground for enterprise AI control
A partnership between PixerLens and Tata Consultancy Services reflects a growing shift in how enterprises are attempting to operationalise artificial intelligence within increasingly constrained regulatory environments. The decision to deploy PixerLens’ Annotet AI platform on TCS’ SovereignSecure Cloud signals a broader recalibration of priorities, where the ability to deploy AI is no longer sufficient without […]
Marketing is being rebuilt by AI agents that can act not just create
Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape marketing in ways that extend beyond content generation, moving into the orchestration of entire workflows. What is emerging is a model in which AI systems do not simply assist human teams, but plan, create and execute campaigns across complex digital environments. A set of expanded collaborations between NVIDIA, Adobe […]
Britain risks losing the AI race not through ideas but through infrastructure
The United Kingdom’s ambitions in artificial intelligence are increasingly being shaped not by breakthroughs in models or applications, but by the physical constraints of energy, land, and compute capacity. A growing body of industry insight suggests that while policy attention remains focused on innovation, the underlying infrastructure required to support AI is failing to keep […]
The AI economy is creating jobs faster than the workforce can be trained
A new international coalition launched in Brazil is attempting to address a growing imbalance at the heart of the artificial intelligence economy, where the rapid expansion of data centre infrastructure is outpacing the availability of skilled workers required to operate it. Led by the Equinix Foundation, the initiative brings together Cisco, Vertiv, ODATA and Generation […]
AI startups: When AI enters the clinic and meets real clinical constraint
Healthcare has become one of the most persuasive arenas for artificial intelligence, but also one of the least forgiving. In this third article drawn from companies presenting at NVIDIA GTC in San Jose, the focus shifts to start-ups navigating health benefits, drug discovery, scientific reasoning, and clinical visualisation, where the consequences of uncertainty are immediate […]
The battle for AI is shifting from models to the silicon beneath them
The next phase of artificial intelligence competition is increasingly being defined not by software alone, but by the hardware that underpins it. As demand for large-scale inference and real-time AI services grows, companies are moving to design their own silicon, seeking greater control over performance, efficiency and cost. Meta has expanded its partnership with Broadcom […]
The future of AI may depend on how machines learn from the real world
Artificial intelligence has advanced at extraordinary speed in the digital domain, but its transition into the physical world remains constrained by a fundamental limitation. Unlike large language models, which are trained on vast quantities of internet data, robots must learn from far more limited and complex real-world environments. This gap is increasingly being recognised as […]
Enterprise AI confronts its trust problem as analytics moves inside the model
Alteryx has introduced a new AI Insights Agent on the Google Cloud Marketplace, embedding governed analytics directly into Gemini Enterprise in an attempt to address a persistent weakness in enterprise artificial intelligence. As organisations accelerate their use of generative systems to inform decisions, the gap between speed and trust is becoming harder to ignore. The […]
AI infrastructure is forcing a rethink of how electricity grids maintain stability
ABB and VoltaGrid have extended their collaboration on data centre power systems, underlining how the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is reshaping not only demand for electricity, but the technical requirements needed to keep it stable. The agreement, signed at the energy industry conference CERAWeek in Houston, will see ABB supply 35 synchronous condensers with […]
Telecom networks are being rebuilt around AI at the edge
The architecture of telecommunications networks is undergoing a structural shift as artificial intelligence and real-time applications push compute away from centralised data centres and towards the network edge. What was once a model built around dense metropolitan hubs is being replaced by a more distributed approach, designed to process growing volumes of data closer to […]
The intelligence problem AI has been avoiding
Artificial intelligence has scaled faster than its own understanding of how intelligence forms. The result is a generation of systems that perform impressively but behave in ways their creators cannot reliably explain, control, or sustain. Artificial intelligence has spent a decade convincing itself that intelligence is a function of scale, that if enough parameters are […]
The hidden limits behind modern compute scale
AI infrastructure is being constrained not by software or silicon, but by the physical systems that connect them. Cabling, optics, and density are no longer implementation details, they are defining what AI architectures can actually be built. The assumption that AI scales cleanly with compute is beginning to fail in places that are difficult to […]
AI startups: Where AI meets industrial reality
Artificial intelligence is being forced into environments where systems must operate continuously, not just perform occasionally. In this second article drawn from companies presenting at NVIDIA GTC, the focus shifts to industrial settings, where labour shortages, infrastructure limits, and physical constraints are shaping how AI is deployed and scaled. The language around industrial AI still […]
Factories are becoming intelligence systems as AI reshapes industry
Manufacturing is entering a period of structural change as artificial intelligence moves from isolated applications into the core of industrial operations. What was once a question of whether to adopt AI has shifted towards how quickly it can be deployed at scale, and what kind of infrastructure is required to support it. At Hannover Messe […]
The network is becoming the intelligence layer of enterprise AI
The rapid expansion of enterprise artificial intelligence is exposing a structural weakness that has long been overlooked. While models continue to advance at speed, the networks that support them have remained largely static, creating a growing mismatch between computational ambition and operational reality. Equinix has moved to address that imbalance with the launch of Fabric […]
Intelligence moves to the edge as AI demand reshapes computing architecture
The expansion of artificial intelligence is no longer confined to centralised data centres. As organisations seek to deploy real-time applications closer to where data is generated, a new phase of infrastructure development is emerging, one that places increasing emphasis on compact, energy-efficient systems at the network edge. Supermicro has introduced a new family of systems […]
Manufacturing is discovering that generic AI is not enough
The industrial sector’s approach to artificial intelligence is shifting as companies confront the limits of general-purpose models in complex operational environments. What is emerging is a more specialised form of AI, designed to operate within the constraints and realities of manufacturing systems rather than abstract digital workflows. A collaboration between Infor and Amazon Web Services […]
AI is lowering the barrier to cyber attack and raising the stakes
The United Kingdom government has issued a warning that the latest generation of artificial intelligence models is reshaping the cyber threat landscape, enabling attacks to be carried out with greater speed, scale and accessibility than previously possible. Testing conducted by the UK AI Security Institute found that a frontier model developed by Anthropic, known as […]