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• June 30, 2026 30 Jun'26

  Nordic datacentre investments surge amid tightening licence rules

  Strains on national power grids in the Nordic region are pushing the region’s governments towards tougher regulation

• June 26, 2026 26 Jun'26

  Met Palantir pilot: The DPIA that raises more questions than answers

  We examine the Data Protection Impact Assessment for the Metropolitan Police’s Palantir Foundry pilot, and the governance gaps it exposes around surveillance, transparency and staff consultation

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  Overwhelming support for Microsoft SMS designation in CMA responses

  Some 25 organisations back Strategic Market Status for Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, while the Open Cloud Coalition estimates £60m in annual public sector costs

• June 24, 2026 24 Jun'26

  The £1,100 lock-in: CMA Microsoft probe exposes software ecosystem at a crossroads

  A parish council, a £60m public sector bill, and the AI question that could define UK digital competition for a generation in responses to the CMA’s Strategic Market Status investigation

• June 23, 2026 23 Jun'26

  Roundtable: UK tech chiefs on agentic AI, workforce culture and tokenomics

  Tech leaders from THG Ingenuity, Kingfisher, Rightmove and Deloitte speak at the Google Summit London about the transition to agentic systems and the rising focus on token costs

• 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

  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 16, 2026 16 Jun'26

  NHS trusts operating on fewer patients with Palantir FDP, warns Foxglove

  Around 30% of English hospitals that use Palantir’s FDP tools for scheduling are carrying out fewer procedures than before adoption, according to data from campaign group Foxglove

• 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 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 03, 2026 03 Jun'26

  SIT Committee urges Palantir exit in push to end US cloud grip

  A Science, Innovation and Technology Committee report contains recommendations that would radically alter UK public sector IT, procurement and relationship with hyperscalers if adopted

• 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 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 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: ‘We’re at Chinese levels’ at TeraWulf 750MW AI factory

  We see the latest in artificial intelligence factory technology and construction at TeraWulf’s Lake Ontario datacentre, where a former coal-fired power station is the site of a rapid transformation

• May 13, 2026 13 May'26

  Data dive: Power grid data shows birth of AI in UK datacentres

  Electricity supply utilisation ratios show datacentre developer ‘land grab’, capacity switch-ons, the coming of Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, and usage ramping during training runs

• May 12, 2026 12 May'26

  Microsoft releases rare zero-day free Patch Tuesday update

  No zero-day flaws were addressed in May’s Patch Tuesday update but as usual there is much for admins to chew over in the coming days

• May 11, 2026 11 May'26

  Core42 partners with Solutions+ on Mubadala sovereign AI

  Agreement announced at Make it in the Emirates will see Core42 provide sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure while Solutions+ delivers implementation services and enterprise AI applications across Mubadala portfolio companies and government entities

• May 11, 2026 11 May'26

  Australian public cloud spending to surpass A$33.6bn in 2026

  As hyperscalers such as AWS and Microsoft pour billions into Australian datacentres, Gartner predicts local public cloud spending will grow by 17.9% in 2026, driven by the growth in AI infrastructure demands

• May 08, 2026 08 May'26

  Node4: AI and agentic the future, but culture the key to unlock it

  UK mid-market supplier showcases the three stages of AI – assistance, co-work and orchestration – but faces a reality in which most users have yet to arrive at first base

• May 06, 2026 06 May'26

  Cloud and data sovereignty caught in a paradox

  We asked the hyperscalers how they would respond to US court-ordered eavesdropping on foreign citizen data – and got responses that highlight a paradoxical situation

• May 05, 2026 05 May'26

  IBM: Enterprise AI to shift from ‘light bulb’ to ‘electric motor’ era

  Enterprises are set to make productivity gains as business shifts from point use cases for artificial intelligence to orchestrated, policy-driven deployment of agentic AI, says IBM CEO

• May 04, 2026 04 May'26

  How Australian firms are using AI in customer experience

  Local tech leaders from MYOB, Guzman y Gomez, and Aware Super reveal how AI is reshaping customer experience, streamlining business operations and driving efficiency

• May 01, 2026 01 May'26

  IAM tools help Oracle Red Bull Racing keep pace with strict F1 regulations

  Oracle Red Bull Racing massively improved the efficiency of its aerodynamics testing procedures after implementing new identity technology from 1Password. Learn more about this unlikely link

• April 30, 2026 30 Apr'26

  Cloud revenues up 35% YoY in a hot market that’s accelerating

  Synergy Research figures put Q1 cloud revenues at $129bn. Meanwhile, AWS, Microsoft and Google have 63% of the world market, which shows an acceleration delta of 13%

• April 24, 2026 24 Apr'26

  Wiz founder: Hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do

  At Google Cloud Next, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica called on security defenders to use AI to steal a march on threat actors, and launched agentic capabilities for cyber teams

• April 23, 2026 23 Apr'26

  AI adoption is rapid but many stuck at basic levels, says AWS

  The UK could unlock £35bn of productivity – equivalent to the economy of Manchester – if organisations can move from basic use of AI to productive, often agentic, modes of working

• 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

  ‘Grand Theft Auto’ publisher Rockstar hit by hackers again

  The notorious ShinyHunters hacking collective menaces video game publisher Rockstar and says it will leak data on 14 April

• 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 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 07, 2026 07 Apr'26

  How voice AI is transforming customer service

  After years of steering customers away from phone calls to cut costs, businesses are warming to voice AI agents capable of managing thousands of conversations simultaneously and upselling services

• April 02, 2026 02 Apr'26

  How ‘Wikipedia of cyber’ helps SAP make sense of threat data

  SAP runs enormous cloud environments for some of the world’s most heavily-regulated organisations, and in the hyperscale era, data security and compliance were becoming big challenges. It turned to cutting-edge agentic tools from Uptycs to cut ...

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  Aussie AI health-tech Heidi aims to cure clinical burnout

  Armed with over $100m in funding, Melbourne-based Heidi is building its own AI models and launching wearable hardware to automate documentation and reduce the administrative burden on doctors

• March 31, 2026 31 Mar'26

  CMA to launch strategic market status investigation into Microsoft; Amazon Web Services off the hook

  CMA to investigate whether Microsoft should be given strategic market status. Amazon escaped, but both companies will need to make changes to egress fees and interoperability

• 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

  Salesforce tracks possible ShinyHunters campaign targeting its users

  Salesforce warns users of an uptick in malicious activity targeting Experience Cloud customers with misconfigured user settings via an open source tool

• March 06, 2026 06 Mar'26

  Regulate AWS and Microsoft, says UK cloud provider survey

  Open Cloud Coalition survey, commissioned ahead of the CMA’s decision on measures against the two hyperscale giants, finds competing cloud providers demand regulation

• February 17, 2026 17 Feb'26

  Google Cloud supplants Azure as Unilever cloud of choice

  Microsoft Azure provided ‘the bulk’ of provision when Unilever went all-in on cloud in 2023, but now Google will be the ‘destination’ for the multinational’s cloud and data platform

• February 06, 2026 06 Feb'26

  AWS Q4 results: Public cloud giant continues to reap rewards of enterprise demand for AI and IaaS

  Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services claims the final quarter of 2025 saw it achieve its fastest rate of growth in 13 quarters

• February 04, 2026 04 Feb'26

  LinkedIn touts agentic AI to slash recruitment time

  LinkedIn’s head of engineering for talent solutions explains how fine-tuned LLMs and agentic AI architectures are replacing traditional search methods to save recruiters four hours per role

• February 02, 2026 02 Feb'26

  Interview: Why identity is the nucleus for cyber security

  Amid a wave of market consolidation, Computer Weekly speaks to Keeper Security’s leadership on how identity and access management systems are becoming unified identity platforms capable of securing both human and machine identities

• January 14, 2026 14 Jan'26

  Texas judge throws out second lawsuit over CrowdStrike outage

  A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by CrowdStrike shareholders over the July 2024 outage that caused widespread disruption around the world

• January 13, 2026 13 Jan'26

  AI to handle four in 10 customer queries in Singapore by 2027

  As companies turn to AI agents to solve manpower constraints, more than nine in 10 APAC consumers say they want clear explanations for AI-driven decisions

• December 22, 2025 22 Dec'25

  Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2025

  The influence of the hyperscale tech giants over the industry was a major topic this past year, but we also saw the emergence of a new type of cloud player in the form of neocloud. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud computing stories of 2025