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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

Data centres face a new era of accountability as AI drives energy demand

As artificial intelligence drives a new wave of digital infrastructure investment, data centres are entering ...
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

Rethinking power resilience as AI pushes data centres to their limits

Artificial intelligence is forcing data centres to reconsider the foundations of their electrical infrastructure. As ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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

AI security moves into the coding workflow

The latest upgrades to an AI-powered application security assistant aim to address one of the ...
The Week in AI, AI Security
Data governance

Businesses face growing AI risks from unreliable external data

New research suggests that nearly half of companies are struggling to verify the origins of ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions
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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

Exascale computing marks a new chapter in scientific reasoning

When scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory powered up the Aurora ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Reasoning in plain sight as open models break down AI’s black box

In the continuing evolution of generative AI, transparency and interpretability are emerging as decisive advantages, ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Startups sought to turn open AI models into real-world products

In a strategic move aimed at reshaping the enterprise AI landscape, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Turning terabytes into forecasts with hybrid machine learning

In the struggle to model the Earth’s changing climate with both speed and fidelity, researchers ...
The Week in AI, AI for Enterprise

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

Acceleration unlocks a new layer of openness in generative AI infrastructure

A fundamental breakthrough in language model inference could reshape how developers deploy generative AI, making ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Marketing meets the machine as AppsFlyer reimagines campaign execution

AppsFlyer has unveiled a new AI-powered orchestration protocol that redefines how marketing teams access, analyse ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Infrastructure becomes intelligence as DartPoints and Megaport link cloud to edge

DartPoints and Megaport have announced a strategic partnership that will bring high-performance, AI-ready connectivity to ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Global alliances reshape cloud strategy as Alibaba ramps investment in AI ecosystem

In a calculated move to reassert its position in the global cloud infrastructure market, Alibaba ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

Connectivity becomes strategy as HPE finalises Juniper acquisition

In a move that signals the growing convergence of artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud, and networking ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

AI reshapes the future of laptops with launch of global co-engineered platform

The integration of artificial intelligence into consumer hardware has reached a new milestone, as Intel ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure
innovation

AI start-ups target climate crisis with global fellowship backing

Artificial intelligence is moving to the frontlines of climate innovation, as 23 startups from around ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Arm brings on-device AI to the forefront of mobile innovation

The push to embed artificial intelligence into mobile devices is accelerating, and at its centre ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

AI rewrites the rulebook on valuing ancient Chinese ceramics

A thousand-year cultural conversation about value, authenticity and provenance is being reshaped by artificial intelligence ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

Whitehall turns to AI as legacy tech burden sparks urgent training overhaul

A government pledge to upskill 100,000 civil servants in artificial intelligence by 2030 has opened ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

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

Enterprise AI reaches inflection point as HCLTech expands strategic partnerships

Two new agreements announced this week signal an accelerating shift in enterprise AI adoption, as ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

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

Why most AI agents will fail to deliver on their promises

Agentic AI is being sold as the future of enterprise automation, but that future may ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

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 ...
The Week in AI, AI Factories

EdgeCore bets on Central Virginia as AI infrastructure race accelerates

The accelerating global demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure has driven wholesale data centre developer EdgeCore ...
The Week in AI, AI Hardware/Infrastructure

AI assistants now pose real-time threat to mobile data security

The growing presence of artificial intelligence on smartphones is presenting a security challenge few consumers ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions

AI gives retail analysts a voice at the top table, but legacy tools slow their impact

The adoption of artificial intelligence in retail is delivering an unexpected dividend: data analysts, once ...
The Week in AI, AI Solutions
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