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Open AI's Stargate Pause Highlights Infrastructure Constraints in the UK
10+ hour, 11+ min ago (626+ words) Open AI has paused plans for its Stargate data centre project in the UK, marking an early test of how far national AI ambitions can extend within existing infrastructure limits. Politico first reported that the company had stepped back from…...
Europe Moves to Measure AI's Energy Cost
14+ hour, 41+ min ago (706+ words) Europe's latest consultation on measuring the energy consumption and emissions of AI systems signals a change that has been building beneath the surface of the industry. The question is no longer about AI's resource intensity, but rather how the associated…...
Data Centre Titans: Rethinking Cooling for the AI Era - Angela Taylor, Liquid Stack
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (650+ words) As AI-driven workloads increase density and power demand, thermal management is emerging as a defining constraint in data centre infrastructure. For Angela Taylor, Sr. Director of Strategy & Offer Management at Liquid Stack, data centre cooling is no longer a supporting…...
Language as Interface: How AI Mirrors Its Users
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (972+ words) AI is increasingly embedded in how people search, write and make decisions. Less visible " and more difficult to trace " is how these systems respond to the structure and tone of the people using them. In conversation with journalist and author…...
From Strategy to Reality: Why Data Adoption Still Falls Short
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (530+ words) Data strategy is rarely undefined. Execution, however, remains uneven. Ahead of Tech Show Frankfurt on 6-7 May at Messe Frankfurt, Petya Dasheva, Head of Global Digital Identities in Cyber Security for Mercedes-Benz Group AG | Werk 096, shares her perspective on where this…...
Quantum Utility Is Emerging, But Still Undefined
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (845+ words) At an Economist Impact roundtable on quantum computing last week, leaders from across the sector " including Michael Biercuk (Q-CTRL), Ashley Montanaro (Phasecraft), Elham Kashefi (UK National Quantum Computing Centre), Simon Fried (Classiq), with moderator Steve Suarez (Horizon X Consulting) " were…...
Europe's AI Ambition is Running Into a Power Constraint
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (835+ words) AI adoption is accelerating across Europe, but the infrastructure required to support it is increasingly constrained by energy availability. Grid limitations, connection delays and shifting energy market dynamics are shaping where data centres can be built, how they operate and…...
AI Operational Resilience in Practice
1+ week, 2+ day ago (513+ words) AI is changing how failure manifests inside the enterprise. Traditional systems tend to fail visibly. AI systems often continue to operate, producing outputs and passing monitoring thresholds even as performance drifts, dependencies degrade, and decision quality becomes harder to assess....
UK Tech Consultation Signals a Shift in Responsibility
1+ week, 3+ day ago (685+ words) The question is not only who enters the sector, but how those entry points are shaped " through education, access to early-career roles and the way emerging technologies redefine what those pathways look like. These are not framed as isolated diversity…...
Flexible AI Infrastructure Defines the Next Era
2+ week, 1+ day ago (970+ words) As AI-driven workloads increase pressure on power, density and delivery timelines, flexibility is becoming a structural requirement in data centre design. Infrastructure decisions must now accommodate evolving silicon roadmaps, grid constraints, and shifting workload patterns. As CTO at Infra Partners,…...