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Datacentre systems management

• March 25, 2026 25 Mar'26

  Akamai launches AI Grid intelligent orchestration

  Cyber security and cloud computing company unveils global-scale implementation of AI Grid, intelligently routing artificial intelligence workloads across edge, regional and core footprint to balance latency, cost and performance

• March 20, 2026 20 Mar'26

  Scotland launches five-year AI strategy

  Scottish deputy first minister says the country aims to become a leader in AI through responsibly harnessing the economic and social benefits of the technology

• 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 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 11, 2026 11 Mar'26

  Neurons over silicon: Singapore plans first biological datacentre

  DayOne and Cortical Labs are bringing ‘wetware’ computing to the city-state, using living neurons grown from stem cells to support the demand for AI while addressing sustainability concerns

• 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

  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 04, 2026 04 Mar'26

  Weighing the trade-offs of neoclouds and sovereign clouds

  Neocloud and sovereign cloud providers offer alternatives to hyperscalers for AI infrastructure and data sovereignty, but availability gaps and a lack of managed AI services can pose challenges to enterprise customers

• 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 23, 2026 23 Feb'26

  Pure Storage rebrands to Everpure as storage maker’s business expands focus to data management

  Everpure rebrand aims to put the focus on managing data throughout its lifecycle for optimum use, storage, security and sovereignty, with new functionality planned this year

• 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 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Datacentre demand is huge but power and skills hold things back, survey shows

  BCS Consultancy survey finds demand for datacentres is growing apace, but power constraints and skills shortages are hampering delivery and operations

• February 11, 2026 11 Feb'26

  UK government datacentre planning decisions queried over environmental oversight admission

  The UK government’s admission that it made a mistake granting permission for a hyperscale datacentre to be built in Iver, Buckinghamshire, has raised questions about the validity of similar approved projects

• 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 23, 2026 23 Jan'26

  UK government ‘blindly accepted’ Iver datacentre environmental assurances, it is claimed

  The UK government confirms that its decision to grant planning permission for a hyperscale datacentre, which is at the centre of a legal challenge on environmental grounds, should be quashed

• January 20, 2026 20 Jan'26

  Digital Realty enters Malaysia with acquisition of Cyberjaya datacentre

  The datacentre provider expands Southeast Asian footprint beyond Singapore and Jakarta, acquiring a connectivity hub in Cyberjaya with plans for a 14MW campus to support regional AI and cloud workloads

• 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 14, 2026 14 Jan'26

  AON ups insurance offering to protect datacentre developers from costs incurred by project delays

  Professional services company AON is expanding its insurance offering for datacentre developers and investors, citing the growing complexity and risk profile of server builds

• 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

• December 22, 2025 22 Dec'25

  Top 10 datacentre stories of 2025

  It’s been a busy year for datacentre news, with the UK government’s ambitions to expand AI growth zones, along with controversies surrounding the effect of these plans on the environment. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 datacentre stories of 2025

• December 15, 2025 15 Dec'25

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2026

  Enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region are expected to prioritise sovereign architectures, double down on securing agentic systems and rewrite their infrastructure playbooks, among other tech trends

• 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 20, 2025 20 Nov'25

  Qualcomm and Humain launch AI engineering centre in Riyadh

  Saudi Arabia strengthens its artificial intelligence ambitions under Vision 2030 with a new Qualcomm-powered datacentre hub, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman highlights tech innovation during his US visit

• November 19, 2025 19 Nov'25

  Datacentre energy demands set to soar by 2030 as AI growth accelerates, predicts Gartner

  IT market watcher Gartner has shared its projections about how the energy consumption habits of datacentres are set to change as AI takes off

• November 14, 2025 14 Nov'25

  Dutch datacentre growth stalls while hydrogen remains untapped

  ING warns grid congestion threatens Dutch datacentre leadership, while the country’s championed hydrogen solution remains largely untapped

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  CBRE charts rise of neocloud providers within European colocation market

  Real estate consultancy CBRE’s latest colocation market tracker shines a light on the impact neocloud providers are having on the supply and demand dynamics of the European datacentre market

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  UK government vows to fast-track AI growth zone planning and energy access

  On the same day the UK government confirms the location of its next AI growth zone, in North Wales, it also makes a series of pledges about fast-tracking planning and energy access to these artificial intelligence hubs

• November 13, 2025 13 Nov'25

  National Grid to extend Didcot substation in support of UK datacentre growth

  National Grid is continuing with its work to ensure the nation’s electricity grids have the capacity to cope with the UK’s growing number of datacentres

• 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 ...

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

  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%

• 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 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 21, 2025 21 Sep'25

  NUS supercomputer enters global Top500

  Dubbed Hopper, the supercomputer can perform 25 quadrillion calculations per second and is already fast-tracking research in fields from biomedical engineering to clean energy applications

• 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 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

  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