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• November 06, 2025 06 Nov'25

  Blackpool Council preps datacentre planning application for tech-focused town regeneration bid

  After setting out its ambition to embark on building a tech-focused regeneration project, Blackpool Council has revealed it is prepping a planning application for a datacentre, and has submitted a bid to become one of the UK government’s AI growth ...

• November 06, 2025 06 Nov'25

  Police Digital Service defends IT contractor cuts amid concerns over IT project delivery

  The Police Digital Service has defended its decision to cut the size of its flexible IT workforce, as sources raise concerns about low staff morale and hampered IT project delivery times

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  Insurer Vitality forges closer ties with Google for AI-powered customer health boost

  Health insurance firm Vitality wants to help its customers take a more preventative approach to managing their health and fitness, with the help of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence portfolio

• November 05, 2025 05 Nov'25

  Bugcrowd brings Mayhem AI to bear on ethical hacking community

  Bugcrowd acquires scaleup Mayhem Security to enhance the ingenuity of its human hackers with AI-backed software testing capabilities

• November 04, 2025 04 Nov'25

  G42 and Cisco expand strategic partnership to drive AI innovation and infrastructure growth

  The UAE-based tech group and global networking giant will co-develop secure AI infrastructure and cyber security solutions to support high-performance computing and datacentre growth

• November 03, 2025 03 Nov'25

  AWS hails return to accelerated growth with Q3 results

  Despite having to make allowances for paying out close to $2bn in severance payments, Amazon’s results show its cloud arm is continuing to go from strength to strength

• October 31, 2025 31 Oct'25

  Cyber agencies co-sign Exchange Server security guide

  US and allied cyber agencies team up to try to nudge users to pay more attention to securing Microsoft Exchange Server

• October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

  Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act promises to fill Meta’s coffers

  The owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram is spending billions on new datacentres for artificial intelligence

• October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

  Equinix acquires DC01UK’s mega-datacentre site in Hertfordshire and plots £3.9bn investment

  Colocation giant Equinix has acquired a plot of land in Hertfordshire where datacentre developer DC01UK secured planning permission to build a hyperscale campus in January 2025

• October 30, 2025 30 Oct'25

  Microsoft CEO speaks of global cloud factory as Azure stalls

  Alongside Microsoft's posted cloud revenue of $49bn was a configuration error that caused a global outage affecting many customers

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  AWS emerges as ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre migration project as rivals exit

  A week after HM Revenue & Customs’ reliance on Amazon Web Services came under scrutiny from MPs, the public cloud giant remains the only supplier in the running for the tax agency’s £500m datacentre exit project

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Vintage rail freight system showcases 50-year-old innovation

  A system from national rail operator British Rail in 1975 used distributed computing and a 400km data network to track freight

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Saudi Arabia partners with Humain and Qualcomm to power next global AI frontier

  A collaboration to deploy advanced AI infrastructure positions Saudi Arabia as a global hub for intelligent computing

• October 29, 2025 29 Oct'25

  Monday.com eyes ASEAN growth with Singapore hub

  The work management specialist’s Collier Quay office will serve as its hub for Southeast Asia as it looks to build deeper relationships with a growing customer base

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  UK citizens raise red flags over environmental impacts of datacentres in poll

  A poll of 1,000 UK citizens reveals deep concerns about the energy and water usage habits of the nation’s growing footprint of datacentres

• October 28, 2025 28 Oct'25

  Qualcomm gears up for AI inference revolution

  Rack-based AI acceleration hardware is being positioned as a cost-effective and straightforward way to power AI inference workloads

• October 24, 2025 24 Oct'25

  AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion

  Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  AWS apologises for 14-hour outage and sets out causes of US datacentre region downtime

  Days after its largest US datacentre region experienced a lengthy outage, causing service disruption to web users across the globe, Amazon Web Services issues an explanation and apology regarding what happened

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  Business leaders raise concerns over public cloud data sovereignty

  The unpredictable geopolitical climate is having an impact on IT strategies, a report from Kyndryl has found

• October 23, 2025 23 Oct'25

  UAE’s datacentre boom powers AI ambitions and digital sovereignty

  Surging investments in cloud infrastructure and hyperscale capacity position the UAE as a regional digital powerhouse and a magnet for global tech giants

• October 22, 2025 22 Oct'25

  Government faces questions about why US AWS outage disrupted UK tax office and banking firms

  The government is facing questions about why a multi-hour outage originating in a US-based cloud region belonging to Amazon Web Services caused service disruption to UK banking giants and HM Revenue and Customs

• October 21, 2025 21 Oct'25

  OpenInfra Summit Europe: Migrating off VMware

  With Broadcom’s focus on VMware Cloud Foundation subscriptions, OpenStack is being positioned as the open source alternative

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  AWS confirms it is working to 'fully restore' services after major outage

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) users have experienced an outage after the public cloud giant's North Virginia datacentre region became beset with technical difficulties

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Nscale founding director exits AI infrastructure provider in wake of $1.1bn investment round

  Much-hyped artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nscale has parted ways with one of its founding directors, Companies House documents confirm

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  OpenInfra Summit Europe: Digital sovereignty in the face of political tension

  Attendees at the OpenInfra Summit in Paris were shown why open source IT infrastructure provides supplier flexibility and digital sovereignty

• October 20, 2025 20 Oct'25

  Du racks up 1Tbps Middle East milestone

  Leading UAE operator Du achieves record-breaking peak traffic through its datamena platform and marks milestone for internet exchange in the Middle East to reach performance level

• October 17, 2025 17 Oct'25

  SAP ECC customers bet on composable ERP to avoid upgrading

  Organisations running SAP ECC 6.0 are finding it hard to justify upgrading to the latest SAP S/4Hana cloud-based subscriptions

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  Questions over size of government’s legacy IT estate pose AI adoption issues

  Two House of Commons committees have turned their attention this week to the lack of transparency concerning the size of the government’s legacy IT estate, and what this means for its ability to adopt artificial intelligence technologies

• October 16, 2025 16 Oct'25

  Gitex 2025: Aramex partners with AWS to accelerate global IT modernisation

  UAE-based logistics giant completes the migration of its Oceania datacentre to AWS, marking the start of a global transformation to build an AI-ready, cloud-native infrastructure

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  AI World: Oracle brings agents to bear on world of finance

  Oracle AI World has seen a host of new introductions, among them agentic capabilities for customer finance teams

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Calls for more government support and faster investment if UK to lead in quantum computing

  The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s inquiry into DSIT’s priorities hears evidence about the risk posed to the UK’s ability to lead in the field of quantum computing without more government support

• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI

  The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Revenue generated by neoclouds expected to exceed $23bn in 2025, predicts Synergy

  IT market watcher Synergy Research Group is predicting big things for the neocloud market through 2025 and beyond

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Khazna leads UAE’s global AI push with massive datacentre expansion

  Announced at Gitex Global 2025, Khazna is accelerating its international and domestic expansion, providing the AI-ready infrastructure underpinning the UAE’s ambition to become a global technology leader

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric

  Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Interview: Shaping the future of AI in the UAE

  At Gitex 2025 in Dubai, the largest tech show in the Middle East, Chiara Marcati, chief AI advisory and business officer at AI71, discusses the UAE’s ambition to become a global leader in artificial intelligence

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Microsoft and the UAE: Driving AI from strategy to real impact

  Exploring how Microsoft and the UAE are turning AI ambition into practical solutions, empowering talent, and guiding CIOs to adopt AI at scale

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Meta to boost APAC connectivity with subsea cable

  The 8,000km Candle subsea cable is expected to bolster internet capacity for more than a billion people as tech giants continue to invest in digital infrastructure across the region

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  How OpenAI’s AMD bet raises the stakes in GPU dominance

  The OpenAI partnership with AMD gives it the option to invest directly in the chipmaker

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Middle East cloud ambitions get boost from IBM-AWS partnership

  With demand for AI, datacentres, and smart city tech rising, Riyadh Innovation Hub promises tailored solutions for the region

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Government urged to scrutinise datacentre developers’ environmental claims

  Report by environmental non-profit Foxglove suggests the government’s pro-datacentre agenda could derail the UK’s decarbonisation efforts

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Data sovereignty demand pushes Herabit to get S3 storage

  Italian service provider gets Cubbit DS3 distributed S3 storage to provide up to 2PB of cloud services to customers demanding data sovereignty, while cutting costs by up to 50%

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Enterprise software sales through cloud hyperscale marketplaces set to hit $163bn by 2030

  Research from IT market watcher Omdia suggests enterprise IT buyers are getting increasingly comfortable with making purchases through the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud marketplaces

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment

  Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK

  In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Finland government tax proposal worries datacentre investors

  Finland, like other Nordic countries, is targeting datacentre investment, but could tax reforms scupper this plan?

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  Amazon joins coalition to reduce water usage habits of AI datacentres

  Amazon is joining forces with academics, research groups and utility firms to reduce the water usage habits of datacentres, and also find ways that AI can help tackle the problem of water scarcity in some regions of the world

• September 26, 2025 26 Sep'25

  AI infrastructure provider Nscale secures $1.1bn in series B funding

  A week after it was revealed that Nscale would be working with Microsoft to build the UK's largest supercomputer, the company announces it has secured $1.1bn in series B funding

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Green energy microgrids hailed as cost-effective answer to UK’s datacentre energy supply woes

  Research from the Centre for Net Zero claims green energy microgrids could be a more cost-efficient alternative to nuclear small modular reactors when it comes to powering the UK’s datacentres

• September 25, 2025 25 Sep'25

  Government launches AI growth zone taskforce to support expansion in North East England

  The UK government is launching a coalition to support the accelerated development of its AI growth zone in the North East England