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AI traffic is pushing fibre networks beyond their physical limits

As artificial intelligence workloads scale across cloud platforms, data centres and edge environments, pressure is ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Sovereign AI shifts from policy ambition to infrastructure reality

The debate around sovereign artificial intelligence is increasingly moving out of policy documents and into ...
The Week in AI, AI for Enterprise

Elite sport becomes a testbed for how AI understands the human body

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being judged not by what it predicts on screens, but by ...
The Week in AI, AI for Enterprise

A Mars rover just followed a route planned by artificial intelligence

For most of its history, planetary exploration has been shaped by delay. When engineers on ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Why scaling AI now depends on who can bridge pilots and production

Artificial intelligence has moved well beyond experimentation inside large enterprises. The challenge many organisations now ...
The Week in AI, AI for Enterprise

AI is being positioned as the missing link in fixing Britain’s transport system

Artificial intelligence is being cast as a central pillar of Britain’s efforts to modernise its ...
The Week in AI, AI for Enterprise

Europe’s confidence in regulating AI is masking a widening security gap

Europe has moved faster than most regions to define how artificial intelligence should be governed. ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Data centres are being redesigned for a more brutal compute reality

Artificial intelligence is no longer stretching data centre infrastructure at the margins. It is reshaping ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The reliability problem quietly reshaping enterprise software

For years, artificial intelligence has been discussed in terms of models, data and compute. Increasingly, ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

The AI buildout turns fibre into a strategic national asset

As artificial intelligence pushes data centres to unprecedented scale, the most critical components are no ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Airsys announces first European manufacturing facility

Airsys Cooling Technologies Inc., a global leader in mission-critical cooling, today announced the establishment of ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

How the data centre is being redesigned around the needs of intelligent systems

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is forcing a fundamental rethink of how data centres ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI is forcing a hard rethink of how data centres are powered

Every week brings fresh announcements about the expanding capabilities of artificial intelligence. New models arrive, ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Infrastructure is being pushed to the ends of the earth

Advanced digital services are no longer confined to metropolitan data centre clusters or hyperscale campuses ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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 quiet security gap emerging as enterprises deploy AI at scale

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded across enterprise workflows, a less visible risk is beginning to ...
The Week in AI, AI Security

Why video analytics is shifting from bespoke AI to standardised systems

For years, artificial intelligence in video analytics has promised transformation, improved safety, better compliance and ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Identity is becoming the weakest link as autonomous systems spread

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into everyday enterprise operations, a familiar security assumption is ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Canada bets on sovereign supercomputing as AI reshapes academic research

Canada’s ambitions in artificial intelligence and advanced scientific research are increasingly being shaped by a ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Why streaming data is becoming the weakest link

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded across business operations, organisations are discovering that the hardest part ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Schneider Electric reshapes its data centre leadership for the AI era

Britain’s data centre sector is entering a decisive phase. Artificial intelligence is driving unprecedented demand ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI data centres are making liquid cooling a baseline requirement

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future planning consideration for data centre operators. It is ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI is forcing data centres to rethink cooling from the ground up

The race to scale artificial intelligence is exposing a constraint that has little to do ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI-scale cooling enters a new phase as data centres seek waterless thermal control

As artificial intelligence reshapes the demands placed on digital infrastructure, data centres face mounting pressure ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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

Chief Data Officers move from control to creation in the age of AI

Chief data officers (CDOs) are increasingly stepping into the role of innovation leaders, as more ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

AI will break Europe’s energy system unless photonic computing scales fast

Artificial intelligence is reaching a tipping point, not in terms of model capability or adoption, ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

NorthC and Legrand deliver a new class of ai-enabled data center infrastructure

Legrand has partnered with NorthC Data Centers (NorthC) to transform its data center in Münchenstein ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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

UK Budget signals ambition for AI, but delivery depends on skills, infrastructure and execution

The Autumn Budget carried all the right language about technology and productivity. It offered AI ...
AI for Enterprise, The Week in AI

AI is forcing data centres to rethink both networks and operations

Artificial intelligence is no longer simply increasing demand for compute inside data centres. It is ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Hospitals turn to AI ready data centres to power a new era of digital care

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust has completed a £1.4 million project to overhaul its ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The AI supercycle is exposing the limits of today’s networks

The rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence is forcing a fundamental reappraisal of the digital infrastructure ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

The new browser that knows you too well

OpenAI’s new browser, ChatGPT Atlas, blurs the boundary between tool and companion. Announced this week, ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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

AI is pushing data centre networks to their physical limits

Artificial intelligence is no longer just increasing demand for compute. It is forcing a reassessment ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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

Instant clusters promise a faster path to AI breakthroughs

Together AI has launched a new service designed to remove one of the most stubborn ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure
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, ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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 Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure
Data governance

AI governance fears loom over North American private equity

Artificial intelligence is already embedded in the daily work of private equity and venture capital ...
The Week in AI, AI for Enterprise

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI for Enterprise

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

Rising AI salaries and infrastructure costs threaten returns

UK businesses are increasing their spending on artificial intelligence at an unprecedented rate, but escalating ...
The Week in AI, AI for Enterprise
pupils

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

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
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