Microsoft CEO speaks of global cloud factory as Azure stalls
On the day CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “planet-scale cloud and AI factory,” Azure cloud – the IT infrastructure underpinning this – was offline for…
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US senators seek to prohibit minors from using AI chatbots
Legislation introduced in the US Congress could require artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot operators to put in place age verification processes and stop under 18s from…
Equinix acquires DC01UK’s mega-datacentre site in Hertfordshire and plots £3.9bn investment
DC01UK has confirmed that colocation giant Equinix has acquired the 85-acre plot of green belt land in Hertfordshire it secured planning permission for transforming into…
Peer angry as sales figures suggest Fujitsu has weathered Post Office scandal storm
Fujitsu grew its UK public sector business over the last 12 months despite widespread criticism for its role in the Post Office scandal. The sales…
Labour fleshes out R&D funding
The government has fleshed out details of how it plans to spend £55bn on research and development (R&D) out of the £86bn committed as part…
AWS emerges as ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre migration project as rivals exit
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the last supplier standing in the controversial £500m race to become the hyperscaler responsible for overseeing a 10-year datacentre exit…
Scope of US state-level privacy laws expands rapidly in 2025
The number of individual US states with local data privacy legislation on their statute books has expanded rapidly in 2025, with nine more state laws…
Post Office Capture redress scheme ‘went down like lead balloon’ and is ‘discriminatory’
A former subpostmaster who suffered at the hands of the Post Office’s faulty Capture accounting software has said the announced compensation scheme “discriminates” against claimants.…
Vintage rail freight system showcases 50-year-old innovation
Fifty years ago, three IBM System 370 mainframes powered a pioneering scheduling system run by the UK’s national rail operator, British Rail. Called Total Operations…
Saudi Arabia partners with Humain and Qualcomm to power next global AI frontier
Ahead of the ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Humain and Qualcomm Technologies announced a landmark partnership to deploy advanced…
Saudi Arabia launches AI health coach to transform preventive care
Saudi Arabia’s push to transform its healthcare system has taken a bold technological leap. The Ministry of Health (MoH), in partnership with Lean Business Services…
UK citizens raise red flags over environmental impacts of datacentres in poll
More than three-quarters (78%) of UK consumers are of the view that new datacentres should only be built if the developers commit to powering them…