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Data Centre

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 ...
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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, ...
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The network is no longer infrastructure it is the constraint on AI

AI is not failing at the model layer, it is failing in motion, in the ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The data centre was not designed for AI

Artificial intelligence is being scaled inside buildings conceived for a different era of computing. What ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The ecosystem engine behind the AI factory

An AI factory does not fail at full load. It fails much earlier, in the ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The inference explosion is rewriting the economics of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold where usage, not training, defines its trajectory. The shift ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The factory is replacing the computer as AI infrastructure enters a new phase

NVIDIA used its GTC conference to signal a decisive shift in how artificial intelligence is ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

The token is the product and most companies have not realised it yet

Artificial intelligence is no longer being built as software, it is being industrialised as output. ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Optics moves to the centre of AI infrastructure as system limits tighten

The race to scale AI has been framed as a compute problem, but that framing ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The geography of intelligence is being rewritten

Artificial intelligence is transforming data centres from passive infrastructure into strategic assets that determine economic ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Infrastructure decides the future of intelligence

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than the infrastructure designed to carry it. From silicon to ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Europe’s data centre moment has arrived

Europe’s digital economy is now constrained less by ambition than by infrastructure. Data centres, once ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

The infrastructure race intensifies as AI systems push data centres to their limits

The next phase of artificial intelligence is not being shaped solely by models or algorithms, ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

Liquid cooling moves from option to requirement in large scale data centre builds

The physical limits of traditional data centre design are being tested by the rapid expansion ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

The compute trapped inside modern data centres

The AI infrastructure race is being framed as a global scramble for new power, new ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Why heat is becoming the hard limit of AI

AI infrastructure is scaling at a pace few anticipated, yet the industry conversation remains dominated ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Britain is pricing itself out of intelligence

Britain urgently wants to be an AI maker, but data centres and model training demand ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Europe’s AI gold rush is shaped by power, not property

Artificial intelligence is forcing Europe to confront an inconvenient truth: the limits of its energy ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

NVIDIA raises the stakes as AI inference enters its industrial phase

As artificial intelligence shifts from experimental models to full-scale production, the economic engine powering it, ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

AI data centres drive demand for real-time renewable energy tracking

A new energy agreement covering nLighten’s French data centres signals a shift in how AI-driven ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

Signings for AI Data Centre Capacity in Europe More Than Treble in First Nine Months of 2025

Demand for data centre capacity dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) has surged across Europe this ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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 ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

When the cloud goes dark

The global AWS outage revealed more than a temporary loss of service. It exposed the ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

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, ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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 ...
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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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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, ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

Distributed AI needs an internet for machines

Equinix used its inaugural AI Summit to set out a plan for running artificial intelligence ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories
Data Centre

Microsoft deal signals rising demand for AI infrastructure

Nebius has announced a multi-billion dollar agreement to provide dedicated artificial intelligence infrastructure to Microsoft, ...
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The GPU price wars are only just beginning

GPUs are the defining resource of artificial intelligence, yet the market is caught between scarcity ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

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 ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

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 ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories
GPU Chip

AI heat is pushing data centres to the edge

ZutaCore has launched a two-phase direct-to-chip cooling system designed to help hyperscalers manage the rising ...
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Quantum supercomputers edge closer as GPU acceleration unlocks new possibilities

The vision of a commercially viable quantum computer has long resided in the realm of ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

Why data center power is the real bottleneck in enterprise AI

As enterprise demand for generative AI accelerates, power delivery has become the silent crisis hiding ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Europe’s AI future depends on speed and sovereignty as Groq lands in Helsinki

As Europe races to scale its artificial intelligence ambitions, one of the most critical constraints ...
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Vertical integration accelerates as CoreWeave absorbs infrastructure provider Core Scientific

The accelerating demand for AI compute has prompted CoreWeave to take decisive control of its ...
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Growth of AI will push data centre power demand thirtyfold by 2035

Artificial intelligence is poised to become the dominant force shaping the future of global infrastructure, ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

AI needs quantum more than you think

As AI models grow larger and classical infrastructure reaches its limits, the spotlight is turning ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Europe makes a sovereign play for AI with bold new infrastructure push

Europe’s battle for AI sovereignty is moving from rhetoric to concrete investment. Scaleway, the cloud ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

The AI edge is becoming the new frontline of infrastructure

The geography of artificial intelligence is shifting. Until recently, the backbone of AI was built ...
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Driving the future with high-performance computing and AI

The rapid evolution of high-performance computing (HPC) systems, driven by the demands of artificial intelligence ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories
Clearbot and marine waste

Clearbot autonomously cleans waters with energy-efficient AI

Clearbot’s AI-powered autonomous boats, enabled by the energy-efficient NVIDIA Jetson Xavier, are transforming waterway cleanup ...
AI In Depth, AI Factories

Systemair look to Infor’s cloud solution to deliver more sustainable products

Systemair is moving its core business system to Infor CloudSuite Manufacturing, aiming at smoother integration ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories
IoT

Eliminating equipment failures with industrial IoT

Manufacturing and construction industries can more efficiently address maintenance problems with remote monitoring and instant ...
AI for Enterprise, AI Factories
AI

AI powered supply chain planning solution

A new AI-powered supply chain planning solution aims to empower SMEs to adapt, flex, and ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories
Blockchain

Blockchain innovation for data provenance and integrity

A new solution is set to end the limitless storage requirements that come with increasing ...
AI Factories, AI for Enterprise
AI

AI threatens human extinction, experts warn

Scientists and AI tech industry leaders have issued a new warning about the perils of ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories
AI

PM joins industry chiefs to roadmap future of AI regulation

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met the CEOs of AI innovators OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories
Meta

Fear of AI and GenAI behind EU’s $1.3bn Meta fine

The EU’s record penalty against Meta is driven by concerns over artificial intelligence and generative ...
AI Factories, AI Security
AI

Personality traits dictate AI acceptance in the workplace

New research by SnapLogic reveals that attitudes towards AI in the workplace are guided by individuals’ ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories
cloud

Cloud adjacency the next step evolution of hybrid multicloud

Many cloud-native companies have discovered that apps that require access to large data repositories, need ...
AI Factories, AI In Depth
digitalisation

Intelligent digitalisation for heavy machinery manufacturer

Manufacturer SANY aims to drive sustainable development with a strategy of ‘intelligent digitalisation’ and ‘electrification’. ...
AI Factories, AI Security
electronics

Digitalisation solutions for seamless traceability

The key themes driving modern manufacturing are the value of data, new business models and ...
AI for Enterprise, AI Factories
connectivity

Connectivity and the risk to data security

Interconnectivity is essential to business operations but greater connectivity can present security risks that expose ...
AI Factories, AI In Depth
digital transformation

Digital transformation failing to match IT infrastructure

Ninety per cent of IT buyers say pressure of digital transformation has led them to ...
AI Solutions, AI Factories
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