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Datacentre capacity planning

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

  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

• 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

  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

• September 24, 2025 24 Sep'25

  FT 250 executives call for UK grid upgrades to support AI datacentre expansion plans

  A poll by the Energy Networks Association reveals FTSE 250 attitudes towards the state of the UK’s electrical grids

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Heightened global risk pushes interest in data sovereignty

  Survey finds all those questioned have looked at data location, with most recognising the need to plan for data sovereignty or risk severe damage to reputation and customer trust

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Microsoft to invest $30bn in expanding its operations and AI infrastructure footprint in UK

  Microsoft is making its biggest ever investment in building out its AI and general operations in the UK, citing the government’s commitment to making it easier for big tech to thrive in the country

• September 17, 2025 17 Sep'25

  Government confirms North East as location of second AI growth zone

  UK government has selected two sites near to Newcastle as the home of its second AI growth zone, with one of them confirmed to be housing compute infrastructure for OpenAI's Stargate UK initiative

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  National Grid partners with AI firm to test dynamic management of datacentre energy demands

  National Grid is partnering with Emerald AI for a live trial to test how the pressure artificial intelligence datacentres place on the grid could be altered according to workload demands

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  Startup Carbon3.ai sets sights on building UK-wide sovereign ‘national grid for AI’

  Startup Carbon3.ai has a goal to link 30-plus UK-owned and operated datacentre sites across the UK that will host sovereign AI services

• September 16, 2025 16 Sep'25

  eEVOS brings GUI-accessible VMware alternative for SMEs

  eEVOS from EuroNAS plays in the same space as ProxMox, but isn’t free. It does, however, offer a graphical UI so customers don’t need to flex the Linux CLI skills to use it

• September 10, 2025 10 Sep'25

  Could an environmental legal challenge derail government’s fast-tracked datacentre builds?

  The UK government is under fire after details emerged that it has waved through three large-scale datacentre planning applications without conducting an environmental impact assessment first

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Dell AI server revenues leap but storage waits on Project Lightning

  During the past quarter, Dell’s datacentre sales went through the roof due to new server and networking products for AI – but storage has not shared the same dynamic

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  Gibraltar government backs plans to build 250MW datacentre on island to tap into AI boom

  The government of Gibraltar is throwing its weight behind a plan to build a £1.8bn datacentre on the island

• September 08, 2025 08 Sep'25

  AI boom to push Australian IT spending past A$172bn

  Australian IT spending is set to grow by 8.9% in 2026, driven by growing investments in artificial intelligence, datacentre systems and cloud, according to Gartner

• September 05, 2025 05 Sep'25

  Water efficiency of English datacentres scrutinised in TechUK report

  TechUK survey suggests English datacentres are consuming less water than perhaps expected, but concerns persist about how transparent the sector is being about its water usage

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  OpenAI targets India with datacentre push

  The AI firm is planning to open a one-gigawatt datacentre in India, which could reduce latency, ensure regulatory compliance and give it an edge over hyperscalers

• September 02, 2025 02 Sep'25

  AWS goes live in New Zealand

  The AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, comprising three availability zones and powered by renewable energy, will enable organisations to store sensitive data in the country

• September 01, 2025 01 Sep'25

  Flash drive prices grow quickly while SAS and SATA diverge

  Manufacturers have throttled back production of flash drives to tackle over-supply and it shows in rising prices

• August 19, 2025 19 Aug'25

  HPE taps into AI market demand with Nvidia Blackwell-powered servers

  HPE’s latest Nvidia Blackwell-powered GPU servers are due to start shipping soon, but could enterprises face delays when trying to get hold of them?

• August 15, 2025 15 Aug'25

  India revives national datacentre policy amid AI push

  The government is pushing for single-window clearances and distributed infrastructure to prepare India for AI and cloud workloads in its national datacentre policy

• August 12, 2025 12 Aug'25

  Macquarie Data Centres to offer Dell-Nvidia AI tech stack

  The Australian datacentre operator will host the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia infrastructure platform in its sovereign facilities to meet growing demand for local, secure and compliant generative AI infrastructure

• August 01, 2025 01 Aug'25

  AWS sees revenue and profit rise in Q2, bats away competitive concerns

  AWS has filed its Q2 results, reporting another quarter of revenue and profit rises, but questions are being asked about how the company is coping with the rising competitive pressure it is under

• July 31, 2025 31 Jul'25

  Meta prepares for gigawatt datacentres to power ‘superintelligence’

  Meta’s latest results show a big jump in datacentre costs as it builds out personal AI capabilities

• July 28, 2025 28 Jul'25

  Kioxia launches 245TB LC9, the biggest flash drive on the market

  Japanese drive maker piles one card on top of another to produce 245.76TB E3.L drive, with lower capacity variants in 2.5in and E3.S formats, and claimed low energy use benefits

• July 24, 2025 24 Jul'25

  US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance

  US AI action plan sets out aims to expand American dominance in the world of artificial intelligence

• July 22, 2025 22 Jul'25

  AWS adds vector functionality to S3 object storage

  S3 Vectors allows customers to store AI vector data in S3 object storage, a move that potentially allows for much cheaper storage of vectorised data usually held in vector databases

• July 02, 2025 02 Jul'25

  DDN targets enterprise-shaped hole in its AI storage offer

  Specialist in AI and HPC storage DDN has oriented towards higher performance array products more suited to the enterprise as it aims at $1bn in turnover for 2025

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  Second AI Energy Council meeting looks to forecast future demand

  Given Labour’s ambition to use AI to drive economic growth, questions need to be answered on how the nation’s energy grid will cope

• June 30, 2025 30 Jun'25

  How modular design is reshaping India’s datacentre landscape

  Modular datacentre infrastructure can help Indian enterprises build faster, greener and more flexible datacentres to cope with the demand for local data storage and growing use of AI and edge computing

• June 26, 2025 26 Jun'25

  UK IT infrastructure processes images looking back 20 billion light years

  A UK team prepared infrastructure to process images from world’s largest digital camera and provide on-demand access to global science community

• June 24, 2025 24 Jun'25

  Interview: Pure Storage on the AI data challenge beyond hardware

  We talk to Pure Storage’s vice-president of AI infrastructure about data quality for artificial intelligence and the need for data engineering to ensure the integrity, completeness and appropriateness of data for AI training

• June 23, 2025 23 Jun'25

  Industrial strategy: Takeaways for UK tech innovations

  Labour wants to put the UK at the forefront of tech innovation. Its industrial strategy offers a funding boost for tech and lighter-touch regulation

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  NHS IT the big winner in Reeves’ Spending Review

  The chancellor of the exchequer has significantly upped spending on digital and technology initiatives in the current Spending Review period, with the NHS receiving a 50% tech funding increase

• June 11, 2025 11 Jun'25

  UK government recommits to Edinburgh supercomputer plan with £750m funding pledge

  After pulling the plug on plans by the previous government to build a supercomputer in Edinburgh, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology commits £750m to a very similar initiative

• June 10, 2025 10 Jun'25

  Cisco reimagines infrastructure for the AI era

  Cisco is betting on an AI-driven, agent-based future for infrastructure management with AI Canvas and a raft of network security capabilities at its Cisco Live 2025 conference

• June 03, 2025 03 Jun'25

  National Grid starts building large-scale substation to support growth of West London datacentres

  The National Grid has started work on building a new substation on the outskirts of Greater London to ease pressure on local electricity transmission and distribution networks

• June 02, 2025 02 Jun'25

  Planning permission sought for UK’s largest AI datacentre campus

  North Lincolnshire Council has received a planning permission application for another large-scale datacentre development, in support of its bid to become an AI Growth Zone