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• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  India aims for the stars with orbital datacentres

  As terrestrial datacentres face severe power and cooling constraints, space-based facilities promise unlimited solar energy and low latency for AI inferencing, provided the industry can overcome challenges

• April 27, 2026 27 Apr'26

  DSIT gets sums badly wrong on AI datacentre carbon footprint

  Government revises July 2025 projections for AI-driven datacentre carbon footprint upwards by around 100x, but Carbon Brief suggests the numbers could be much higher still

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  Agentic AI speeds up mainframe modernisation, but human experts remain key

  Agentic AI tools are helping organisations overcome Cobol skills shortages and untangle legacy infrastructure, but successful modernisation still requires an expert in the loop to manage complexity

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Google launches Gemini Agent Platform, eighth-generation TPUs

  With more AI agents moving to production, Google Cloud is targeting governance, multi-cloud data architecture and purpose-built silicon to help enterprises orchestrate agentic workflows

• April 22, 2026 22 Apr'26

  Blackbox replaces two racks of HPE storage with 8U of Everpure

  UK-based IaaS ‘sovereign’ provider, with multiple public sector-facing clients, replaced end-of-life 3PAR arrays with FlashArray storage that saw it reduce power consumption by 85%

• April 15, 2026 15 Apr'26

  Data dive: A new American Century in the datacentre pipeline?

  Looking at datacentre development internationally, we see how the UK faces apparent relative decline, how countries are responding to the AI age, and what MW vs GDP can tell us

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  Go West! US datacentres head for available and cheap energy

  Texas the hotspot as US datacentres enter the GW age, Virginia set to hold its status as ‘datacentre alley’, while constrained west coast states set for market share decline

• April 13, 2026 13 Apr'26

  India’s push for sovereign AI to lift Asia’s tech ecosystem

  A landmark AI infrastructure deal between Yotta and Gorilla Technology aims to deploy up to 36,000 GPUs in India, creating a blueprint for commercially viable AI at scale across the region

• April 10, 2026 10 Apr'26

  OpenAI ‘pauses’ Stargate UK: Sudden setback or calculated move?

  OpenAI’s decision to pause Stargate UK, much vaunted and based on a memorandum of understanding with government, cites energy costs and regulation, but may be driven by wider uncertainties

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Azure customers up in arms over ‘full’ UK South region

  Microsoft customers report being refused capacity, migration projects stuck halfway, and accusations that AI is being prioritised over ‘bread and butter’ offerings

• April 08, 2026 08 Apr'26

  Hyperscaler datacentres set to dominate by 2031

  Driven by artificial intelligence deployments, hyperscaler datacentres are expected to comprise more than two-thirds of all capacity by 2031. Meanwhile, on-premise datacentre capacity will shrink to 20%, down from 56% in 2018

• April 06, 2026 06 Apr'26

  Digital Realty CTO on AI tokenomics and datacentre infrastructure

  Chris Sharp talks up the pace of AI silicon innovation, the growth of inferencing workloads, and why boasting about datacentre megawatts misses the point

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  Data dive: UK government’s 2030 datacentre capacity targets look shaky

  We look at UK datacentre capacity – current and projected – and find DSIT’s 2030 target for 6GW of AI-capable capacity is currently out of reach, unless operators get a move on

• March 29, 2026 29 Mar'26

  Advancing to the next frontier of AI

  As AI agents move faster than software made for human users, both digital tooling and silicon architecture need to be redesigned to reduce latency and power bottlenecks, according to chief scientists of Nvidia and Google

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Zayo provides critical connectivity infrastructure for AI, cloud datacentres  

  Enterprise network provider deploys connectivity infrastructure to one of the UK’s largest AI cloud datacentre campuses to support up to 720 MW of AI-ready infrastructure

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  Bucks landfill datacentre first to get Nationally Significant status

  300MW proposed project is the first to be allowed to benefit from streamlined national-level planning process after being given Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project status by ministers

• March 23, 2026 23 Mar'26

  CUDA at 20: From billion-dollar gamble to agentic AI

  As Nvidia marks two decades of CUDA, its head of high-performance computing and hyperscale reflects on the platform’s journey, the power of software optimisation, and how the fusion of GPUs and LPUs will shape the future of AI

• March 19, 2026 19 Mar'26

  Hit the north! UK datacentre focus shifts to M62 and points north

  Barbour ABI data shows 8GW of total datacentre pipeline with most big projects in the north and Scotland, while London and the M4 corridor are about 25% of projected capacity

• March 18, 2026 18 Mar'26

  Nvidia workforce to be dominated by AI agents in a decade

  Jensen Huang expects digital workers to vastly outnumber human employees at Nvidia, while also revealing plans to restart mainland China operations and declaring autonomous driving a solved problem

• March 17, 2026 17 Mar'26

  NetApp targets E-Series at AI and neoclouds with EF50 and EF80

  High-performance non-ONTAP workhorse targets AI use cases and aims to ensure GPUs get fed optimally, with claimed 2.5x boost in performance over previous models

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Nvidia expands Vera Rubin platform, details Groq integration

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks up efforts by the AI technology giant to pave the way for self-evolving, multi-agent systems with the integration of Groq LPUs and a software stack for the OpenClaw agent platform

• March 16, 2026 16 Mar'26

  Everpure’s Evergreen One for AI brings Exa flash and GPU-based service-level agreements

  Nvidia GTC is the occasion for beta launch of its Datastream appliance that marries software to ingest and manage AI data pipelines with Everpure storage and GPU resources

• March 12, 2026 12 Mar'26

  Enormous AI growth zone datacentre gets planning approval

  North Lincolnshire Council approves 1GW datacentre with nearby electricity generation, but environmental campaigners say the developers did their sums wrong

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Met Office ‘supercomputing as a service’ one year old

  Artificial intelligence is not key to the weather picture, as the forecasting and climate prediction agency lauds the benefits of moving from on-site supercomputers to cloud computing for scientific modelling

• March 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  UK government reforms could see datacentres jump grid connection queue

  With electricity grid demand ballooning, the UK government plans for consultation and reform to ensure feasible and prioritised projects get the thumbs up

• March 09, 2026 09 Mar'26

  AI factory builder Nscale announces another $2bn of funding

  Nscale has a pipeline of 1.3GW of capacity across the UK, Norway and the US, with contracted supply of 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, and is name-checked as a British supplier of AI factories

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  Spyware suppliers exploit more zero-days than nation states

  Exploitation of zero-days by commercial surveillance and spyware developers outpaced exploitation by nation-state actors last year, according to a report

• March 05, 2026 05 Mar'26

  Huge grid and heat challenges ahead as Nvidia set for 1MW rack

  With Nvidia Feynman in 2028, 1MW datacentre racks will produce as much heat as 200 5kW ovens. Industry and government must respond, says Schneider Electric UK datacentre executive

• March 03, 2026 03 Mar'26

  National Grid, Nebius and Emerald hail datacentre power throttling

  In a UK-first trial, Emerald AI acts as intelligence in datacentre energy management to throttle demand at peak loads, including being able to respond rapidly to energy system stress

• March 02, 2026 02 Mar'26

  Micron opens $2.75bn chip assembly plant in India

  Test and assembly site in Gujarat marks India’s first commercial semiconductor production following multibillion-dollar investments in US and Singapore to meet growing demand for storage and memory chips

• February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

  UK to see weekend protests against ‘dirty datacentres’

  Environmental charity Global Action Plan UK is coordinating a campaign effort to bring attention to wider concerns about datacentre electricity demand, water use and environmental impacts

• February 26, 2026 26 Feb'26

  Khazna’s NexOps shift signals new operating model for AI-scale infrastructure

  Managing director Bart Holsters explains why hybrid insourcing, competence assurance and sovereign readiness are becoming essential as artificial intelligence pushes datacentres to their limits

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  Cisco, Qunnect claim quantum first with datacentre connectivity

  IT and networking giant collaborates with scalable quantum networks firm for what is said to be a successful demonstration of quantum networking connecting a datacentre to two research facilities in New York City

• February 19, 2026 19 Feb'26

  Nvidia backs India’s sovereign AI push with gigawatt-scale infrastructure

  Chip giant unveils compute expansion with L&T, Yotta and E2E Networks at the India AI Impact Summit, paving the way for domestic heavyweights to build AI agents and physical AI applications

• February 09, 2026 09 Feb'26

  As space gets crowded, cyber threats from jamming to stalker satellites loom large

  Experts at the inaugural CYSAT Asia in Singapore warn of the urgency of securing space assets amid growing geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities

• February 03, 2026 03 Feb'26

  Gartner: AI and datacentre spending ramps up

  Hyperscalers are increasing AI capacity but IT buyers are now looking at their return on investment for this much-hyped technology

• January 26, 2026 26 Jan'26

  STT GDC launches HVDC testbed to address AI’s power demands

  The FutureGrid Accelerator on Jurong Island will test the use of high-voltage direct current power systems, as traditional alternating current power systems can no longer address the growing energy needs of AI datacentres

• January 19, 2026 19 Jan'26

  Liverpool FC signs WasabiAiR for fast video tagging and search

  Reds can tag video frame-by-frame with AI-based ML-as-a-service to get rapid search and ‘hyper-personalisation’ of footage for fan engagement and partner content

• January 15, 2026 15 Jan'26

  Zoho opens its first UAE datacentres to boost cloud adoption

  New Dubai and Abu Dhabi facilities support data sovereignty, providing CIOs with local access to more than 100 Zoho and ManageEngine cloud services

• January 12, 2026 12 Jan'26

  Singapore and Japan team up on quantum computing

  The two countries will work together to bridge the gap between quantum research and real-world commercialisation, marking Singapore’s first government-to-government pact dedicated to the technology

• January 06, 2026 06 Jan'26

  Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin architecture to power AI agents

  The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving

• January 05, 2026 05 Jan'26

  How Bahrain is building a region-leading digital economy

  From hyperscale cloud and fintech regulation to AI skills and smart manufacturing, Bahrain is positioning technology at the heart of its economic diversification strategy, says Bahrain EDB’s Musab Abdullah

• December 28, 2025 28 Dec'25

  Middle East tech trends 2026: AI, cyber security and sovereign infrastructure take centre stage

  As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to production and cyber threats escalate, the Middle East is entering a decisive phase of digital transformation, says Omdia chief analyst Trevor Clarke

• December 24, 2025 24 Dec'25

  Top 10 India stories of 2025

  From infrastructure expansion and sovereign AI innovation to regulatory maturity, Computer Weekly recaps the key developments that kept CIOs and technology suppliers across India busy in 2025

• December 19, 2025 19 Dec'25

  Government set for early 2026 court hearing over decision to approve Iver datacentre development

  A court date has been assigned for a legal action being brought against the government over its decision to grant planning permission for a datacentre in Iver

• December 03, 2025 03 Dec'25

  HPE expands AMD collaboration to advance open rack-scale AI

  IT and networking provider to adopt open, full-stack AI platform engineered for large-scale AI workloads looking to deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity across massive AI clusters

• November 26, 2025 26 Nov'25

  AMD pushes for open ecosystem to challenge Cuda dominance

  AMD’s head of AI software discusses the company’s plans to make its ROCm platform ubiquitous, and how it is leveraging open source to democratise access to AI capabilities

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  MWC25 Doha debut marks a new chapter for MENA mobile innovation

  GSMA’s Jawad Jalal Abbassi outlines how Qatar’s first Mobile World Congress will accelerate digital transformation, 5G adoption and AI integration across the region

• November 24, 2025 24 Nov'25

  IBM and Cisco light up quantum networking collaboration

  Firms collaborate to design a connected network of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, laying the groundwork for a quantum computing internet

• November 21, 2025 21 Nov'25

  Meta announces completion of core 2Africa cable

  IT behemoth reveals final phase of subsea cable connecting Africa and the world