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• July 16, 2026 16 Jul'26

  Denmark debates ‘emergency’ energy plan to curb datacentres

  To fix grid crisis caused by mismanagement under her previous administrations, Danish prime minister opens third term in office with laws against datacentres

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI

  The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs

• July 15, 2026 15 Jul'26

  Australia launches Office of AI to drive world-first national framework

  Prime minister Anthony Albanese establishes Office of AI to coordinate binding standards for the technology, promising the world's first single national AI framework

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  IDCA warns of ‘delay tax’ as AI datacentre power surges 50%

  Global datacentre electricity consumption reaches 1.9% of all generation, with ‘zombie workloads’ wasting 3GW of US capacity alone and a 100MW project delay costing up to $1bn

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Pure DC launches €7.5bn Finland AI datacentre campus

  550MW AI datacentre project – with Microsoft reportedly signed up – reflects shift as European market moves north to bypass power constraints in traditional Flap-D hubs

• July 14, 2026 14 Jul'26

  Couchbase eyes APAC growth as enterprises confront data problem

  Having been taken private by private equity firm Haveli Investments, the NoSQL database supplier is pitching its newly launched AI data plane as the fix for the fragmented data layers

• July 13, 2026 13 Jul'26

  Microsoft admits datacentre greenhouse gas emissions hike

  Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power

• July 10, 2026 10 Jul'26

  AI is making the mainframe harder to retire, not easier

  Once dismissed as legacy tech on the way out, the mainframe is being reframed as the trusted anchor of hybrid, AI-era architectures

• July 09, 2026 09 Jul'26

  UK’s largest businesses dangerously exposed to cloud outages

  British businesses, particularly those in the FTSE 100, are dangerously dependent on large cloud providers, with hypothetical large-scale outages at AWS or Azure regions likely to cause major economic damage, according to the Cyber Monitoring Centre

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  SNP council backs datacentre halt and creates Burnham dilemma

  As Scottish National Party council passes a motion for Scotland datacentre moratorium, Andy Burnham’s avowed ‘power to the regions’ views face strain in light of critical national infrastructure designation

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  Can Oman become the Gulf’s third AI infrastructure hub?

  The Sultanate is leveraging subsea cables, lower costs and regulatory stability to position itself alongside regional AI giants, but a large ecosystem scale gap remains

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  Tesco VMware migration shows backup incompatibilities

  VMware integration with third-party backup software improves performance and reduces admin. Alternative hypervisors are often less well-integrated

• July 07, 2026 07 Jul'26

  Singtel’s AI push could lift its digital business to a third of earnings

  Singtel’s group CEO, Yuen Kuan Moon, says the telco is investing in datacentres, GPUs and AI services while staying focused on shareholder returns

• July 06, 2026 06 Jul'26

  Telehouse completes fossil fuel-free datacentre retrofit as £251m West 2 build begins

  Docklands campus operator strips all gas from ex-Thomson Reuters facility, cutting PUE from 1.74 to 1.27, while breaking ground on its largest global datacentre at 22MW

• July 05, 2026 05 Jul'26

  How Zoho’s full-stack strategy keeps it in control of cost and sovereignty

  Zoho’s ANZ lead Rakesh Prabhakar explains how building its own infrastructure keeps the SaaS firm in control of cost, pricing and data sovereignty

• June 30, 2026 30 Jun'26

  Nordic datacentre investments surge amid tightening licence rules

  Strains on national power grids in the Nordic region are pushing the region’s governments towards tougher regulation

• June 26, 2026 26 Jun'26

  Met Palantir pilot: The DPIA that raises more questions than answers

  We examine the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Metropolitan Police’s Palantir Foundry pilot, and the governance gaps it exposes around surveillance, transparency and staff consultation

• June 25, 2026 25 Jun'26

  Nationwide bets on VCF as Broadcom responds to Tesco

  Nationwide extends its VCF contract with Broadcom. Meanwhile, in the Tesco legal case, Broadcom disputes that VMware is a dominant software platform

• June 25, 2026 25 Jun'26

  Qualcomm gains AI edge with Modular acquisition

  Connected comms tech platform provider makes strategic buyout to accelerate adoption of edge-to-cloud AI platforms by developers, OEMs, ODMs, cloud service providers and model creators

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Cost the major barrier in AI’s race to space

  Space-based datacentres are becoming technically feasible in the next decade, with one in eight AI workloads running in space by 2040, according to Boston Consulting Group – but costs will pose a major barrier to its adoption

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses

  Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  The £1,100 lock-in: CMA Microsoft probe exposes software ecosystem at a crossroads

  A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Cisco: Legacy networks can no longer support the new AI workforce

  At Cisco Connect 2026 Singapore, tech leaders and policymakers warn that businesses must modernise their IT infrastructure and governance frameworks to pave the way for agentic AI

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Roundtable: UK tech chiefs on agentic AI, workforce culture and tokenomics

  Tech leaders from THG Ingenuity, Kingfisher, Rightmove and Deloitte speak at the Google Summit London about the transition to agentic systems and the rising focus on token costs

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  nLighten CEO Dawn Childs on edge datacentres and sovereignty

  We talk to the CEO of nLighten about the limits of the UK power grid, why that makes ‘edge’ datacentres a good idea, and navigating contemporary data sovereignty requirements

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Nokia, t3 Broadband, Aureon team to deploy optical AI connectivity

  Comms tech provider teams with US operator to provide AI-ready optical route connecting North Dakota datacentre to Chicago metro area

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Google’s Andi Gutmans on the shift to agent-scale data management

  We talk to PHP pioneer and Google agentic data cloud vice-president about ensuring agentic quality, including having agents voting against each other, and the risk of LLM lock-in

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  nLighten completes £15m refurbishment of Bristol ‘edge’ datacentre

  European datacentre operator doubles potential AI-ready power capacity to 1.2MW with dry cooling at Bristol site as part of a wider £100m-plus UK modernisation programme

• June 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Google Cloud boosts for enterprise agentic at London Summit

  Hyperscaler prioritises process automation in UK showcase, with frontier models, agent platforms and development tools to the fore, with customers such as Unilever in the spotlight

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  STT GDC launches 30MW datacentre in South Korea

  The Singapore-based datacentre operator has entered the South Korean market with STT Seoul 1, a hyperscale-ready facility built though a joint venture with Hyosung Heavy Industries

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  NHS trusts operating on fewer patients with Palantir FDP, warns Foxglove

  Around 30% of English hospitals that use Palantir’s FDP tools for scheduling are carrying out fewer procedures than before adoption, according to data from campaign group Foxglove

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  Ineffable Intelligence strikes Google Cloud deal for Vera Rubin GPU power

  London-based ‘anti-LLM’ developer led by AlphaGo founder David Silver selects Google Cloud Vera Rubin GPU infrastructure to build reinforcement learning ‘superlearners’

• June 15, 2026 15 Jun'26

  Data dive: Dodgy data derails datacentre water debate

  The Government Digital Sustainability Alliance reports that we are on track for a massive water supply shortfall. The dataset it used suggests not. We look at the datacentre water use debate

• June 12, 2026 12 Jun'26

  The digital pivot: How HSS transformed hire with agentic AI

  HSS ProService underwent a profound transformation from asset-heavy hire business to digital marketplace set to deploy agentic AI. CEO Tom Shorten tells us how it did it

• June 12, 2026 12 Jun'26

  Singapore to transform industrial island into AI-ready datacentre hub

  A joint report by Singapore government agencies and industry players details how the city-state's Jurong Island will be redesigned into a highly secure, circular digital infrastructure hub by 2050

• June 10, 2026 10 Jun'26

  UK minister for AI calls for more attractive datacentre builds

  Speaking at the AI Summit in London, Kanishka Narayan launches a competition to encourage UK datacentre designs people can be proud of

• June 09, 2026 09 Jun'26

  Brace for cloud price hikes and AI failures amid pressure to modernise

  Organisations risk losing control of their IT infrastructure unless they embrace platform-centric models, modernise procurement and cut through the agentic AI hype, Gartner analysts warn

• June 09, 2026 09 Jun'26

  Alibaba Cloud opens Johor cloud region

  Chinese tech giant unveils two new datacentres in Johor, cementing its largest infrastructure presence in Southeast Asia while capitalising on spillover demand from Singapore

• June 08, 2026 08 Jun'26

  SKT teams up with Nvidia on gigawatt-scale AI cloud

  The Korean telco continues its push to become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, leveraging Nvidia’s DSX architecture to build an AI factory for sovereign workloads and token generation

• June 08, 2026 08 Jun'26

  Councils exit 10-year Capita deal to boost decision and project velocity

  Two councils that were once part of a five-council group outsourced to Capita take back control of their IT to allow for decision-making and IT projects that aren’t bound by the slowest member

• June 03, 2026 03 Jun'26

  SIT Committee urges Palantir exit in push to end US cloud grip

  A Science, Innovation and Technology Committee report contains recommendations that would radically alter UK public sector IT, procurement and relationship with hyperscalers if adopted

• June 02, 2026 02 Jun'26

  Data dive: Mapping the UK public sector’s hyperscale dependence

  UK government and local authorities have built critical infrastructure amid a web of US hyperscaler cloud and other providers, which brings risks of exposure to a narrow set of non-UK suppliers

• May 28, 2026 28 May'26

  Challenging AI hype narratives with director Valerie Veatch

  Computer Weekly speaks with Valerie Veatch, the director of a documentary charting the historical development of artificial intelligence, about the difficulties of challenging hype narratives and the pressing need to build a culture of technological...

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  Datacentre dive: AI factory power draw changes the grid calculus

  We look at energy as the key driver – and bottleneck – in development, and why water use is less of an issue now datacentres use liquid cooling over air cooling

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  Datacentre dive: Do AI datacentre physics make on-premise unviable?

  Does substantial GPU power draw and liquid cooling mean the end of the on-premise datacentre? We look at the AI factory revolution and find that a hybrid path for enterprises will likely still exist

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  Datacentre dive: From rust belt to megawatt AI factory

  We visited Terawulf’s Lake Ontario 750MW datacentre development. Photos and recordings weren't allowed, so we took notes and wrote them up in more traditional ways

• May 27, 2026 27 May'26

  Datacentre dive: ‘We’re at Chinese levels’ at TeraWulf 750MW AI factory

  We see the latest in artificial intelligence factory technology and construction at TeraWulf’s Lake Ontario datacentre, where a former coal-fired power station is the site of a rapid transformation

• May 25, 2026 25 May'26

  How APAC companies are rewiring their tech for the AI era

  At Dell Technologies World, APAC tech leaders reveal how they are relying on hyperconverged infrastructure and digital sovereignty to shield themselves from supply chain shocks

• May 20, 2026 20 May'26

  Presight and Abu Dhabi Civil Defence build AI-driven public safety platform

  Cooperation agreement between Presight and the Abu Dhabi Civil Defence Authority signals the next phase of AI-driven emergency response, strengthening the UAE’s ambition to become a global leader in smart cities, crisis management and digital public...

• May 19, 2026 19 May'26

  As AI costs spiral, Dell pitches return to on-premise datacentres

  With agentic AI driving up public cloud consumption, Dell Technologies is pitching local and hybrid infrastructure to shield enterprises from soaring token costs