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• July 22, 2026 22 Jul'26

  Amphenol makes fibre Pivot to support AI-scale data centre growth

  1RU fibre panel designed to support 192 connections to help AI and hyperscale operators scale capacity without giving up serviceability

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Singapore’s military to explore quantum computing for mission planning

  The Singapore Armed Forces’ Digital and Intelligence Service and the Defence Science and Technology Agency are working with IBM to test quantum optimisation for military logistics

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  Scottish Water taps BT, Accenture to plot digital future

  Scottish utility firm inks strategic relationships with tech firms to continue digital journey, looking to deliver more resilient, secure and efficient services as well as strengthen technology foundations

• July 21, 2026 21 Jul'26

  AMD CTO: Europe’s AI opportunity lies beyond semiconductor manufacturing

  Mark Papermaster says Europe’s commitment to interoperability and diversity of supply could become a strategic advantage as AI infrastructure grows more heterogeneous

• July 17, 2026 17 Jul'26

  NatWest signs up to quantum trial for fraud detection

  The retail bank is one of 11 organisations testing quantum technologies as part of Digital Catapult’s quantum technology access programme

• 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 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 08, 2026 08 Jul'26

  Lumen completes Alkira acquisition to boost enterprise networking

  Acquisition designed to bring together network and digital services with intelligent networking software and simplify enterprise connections across cloud, AI and hybrid environments

• July 08, 2026 08 Jul'26

  Road to higher vehicle automation accelerates

  Research reveals how vehicle autonomy systems are advancing steadily, with as many as eight million new passenger cars sold globally in 2025 equipped with L2+ advanced driver assistance systems capabilities

• 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 06, 2026 06 Jul'26

  US Anthropic restrictions dent UK tech sovereignty ambition

  The UK government cannot rely on allies. Instead, it must sort out startup funding and do more to build out a full tech stack

• July 02, 2026 02 Jul'26

  Berlin Fire and Rescue Service enhances passive network infrastructure

  Looking to ensure that rescue and fire-fighting operations continue to run seamlessly in the future, Germany’s largest professional fire department modernises passive network infrastructure

• July 01, 2026 01 Jul'26

  Tata Communications strengthens India-Singapore connectivity corridor

  AI-ready connectivity investments look to enable enterprises to connect across continents with secure, high-speed, dynamic, self-managed and low-latency infrastructure

• June 25, 2026 25 Jun'26

  Intelligent eyewear market sees opportunities

  Study shows accelerating adoption of augmented reality and smart glasses, while virtual reality segment declines after weak consumer demand, ageing product cycles and limited new product introductions

• June 25, 2026 25 Jun'26

  MWC 2026 Shanghai: Huawei bets on token economy as telecoms seeks new AI revenues

  AI-native networks, intelligent computing and token-based business models are emerging as the next frontier of digital infrastructure

• 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 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Trump directs US government focus to quantum

  In an Executive Order, president Trump directed the US government to work to establish a cohesive, collaborative approach to the development of quantum technology

• 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

  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 19, 2026 19 Jun'26

  Keysight’s chief technologist on the path to 6G

  Balaji Raghothaman, Keysight’s chief technologist for 6G, discusses what it takes for the telecoms industry to move to 6G, from supporting AI workloads to integrating with satellites connectivity and driving enterprise use cases

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  Rising memory costs reshape smartphone economics

  Smartphone trade-in market data reveals new dynamics as higher device prices drive greater reliance on trade-ins and refurbished units

• June 18, 2026 18 Jun'26

  Snapdragon START kicks off next phase of personal AI with XR smart glasses

  Qualcomm launches AI-based programme to enable brands to design and scale personal AI devices, starting with smart glasses

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  Everpure aims to bridge AI data gap with Universal Data Intelligence

  Storage-to-data-management firm expands Enterprise Data Cloud at Accelerate 2026 with OneTouch integration and AI pipeline automation to combat enterprise data sprawl

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  HPE Discover 2026: Neri heralds ‘unique’ placement to transcend network bottleneck

  CEO talks up HPE’s self-driving future, as well as partnerships with eight companies in its mission to blaze the trail for hybrid classical-quantum applications

• June 17, 2026 17 Jun'26

  NPL to run world’s first quantum standards network

  National Quantum Standards Network will be overseen by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, with the aim of establishing the rules of the road for quantum computing and accelerating British innovation

• June 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  XR market rewriting its own rules as smart glasses use surges

  Research finds that eyewear-form-factor devices are no longer the niche in extended reality, they are the market as devices encompassing AR, XR, MR and VR grew 86% annually in Q1 2026

• 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

  Lincolnshire County Council upgrades wide area network services

  Lincolnshire County Council to replace legacy PSN infrastructure with unified, high-performing network environment, enabling greater agility

• 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

  UK government pumps £200m into AI skills and adoption

  Partnering with businesses, trade unions and workers, the UK government want to upskill workers and spread artificial intelligence adoption

• 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 08, 2026 08 Jun'26

  Starmer announces sovereign compute strategy amid £1.1bn chip investment

  Prime minister launches strategy to develop UK sovereign compute capability as government pumps £1.1bn into AI hardware plan

• June 05, 2026 05 Jun'26

  ViaTunisia subsea segment reaches ready-for-service status

  Subsea cable segment connecting Marseilles in France and Bizerte in Tunisia has officially reached ready-for-service status, making leap from infrastructure design to live connectivity

• June 04, 2026 04 Jun'26

  EU unveils full-stack sovereignty package to build Euro tech muscle

  European Commission launches package spanning chips, cloud and energy to reduce dependency on US and Chinese supply chains and to foster a sovereign vertical domestic stack

• June 04, 2026 04 Jun'26

  Cisco Live 26: Networks the key in post-Mythos world

  Platform offers unified approach for humans and AI agents to run critical IT infrastructure together, allowing customers to build their own apps and agents in natural language

• June 03, 2026 03 Jun'26

  SXSW 26: Europe still struggles to invest in deep tech

  At the South by Southwest 2026 conference, ARM’s co-founder and director discussed the lack of investor appetite in Europe, despite the region’s numerous startups

• June 03, 2026 03 Jun'26

  Agentic AI helps Microsoft speed-up viable quantum computer

  Microsoft researchers have made a breakthrough in quantum reliability with the help of agentic artificial intelligence

• 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 29, 2026 29 May'26

  How Canberra Institute of Technology is transforming classroom learning

  Faced with a fragmented IT estate and poor room utilisation, CIT partnered with Cisco to standardise the institute’s physical and virtual classrooms, boosting inclusivity and slashing on-site support

• May 29, 2026 29 May'26

  Agentic AI is driving rethink of enterprise architecture and tokenomics

  The growing adoption of agentic AI will require IT leaders to rebalance their CPU and GPU estates, tightly integrate data layers, and redesign human workflows, according to Dell Technologies CTO John Roese

• 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 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 22, 2026 22 May'26

  Record fibre connections but BT posts mixed 2026 financial year

  UK’s leading communications provider claims solid FY26, with highs in FTTP connections and cost control, but sees headwinds on broadband business

• 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