Data centre
Deciding where and how to build and operate a datacentre is one of the most important decisions your organisation will make. This section covers how to build a solid datacentre infrastructure, including selecting the right location to build your new facility, best practices for designing a new datacentre, and cooling and air flow techniques. Learn about green IT, data management systems, servers and operating systems.
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
Why scarcity alone won't pay for Asia's AI infrastructure
Singtel, SK Telecom and China Telecom are each betting on a different kind of scarcity. The fibre boom is a reminder that scarcity attracts capital until it disappears Continue Reading
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News
04 Oct 2026
APAC has the datacentre demand, but turning plans into capacity is the hard part
Asia-Pacific now generates its own datacentre demand, but executives from AWS, Damac Digital and Delta Electronics say the real test is turning announced investments into working capacity Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
23 Oct 2026
CW@60: How Singapore, India and Australia built their tech industries
Computer Weekly is 60 this year. We look back at what has shaped enterprise IT in three of the regionâs key markets, and what each is building next Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
22 Oct 2026
BMW uses Ansible to manage HPC cluster
German carmaker has migrated to Red Hatâs agentless IT automation platform to manage an HPC cluster comprising 30,000 Linux and Windows servers Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
22 Oct 2026
Indiaâs quantum mission takes shape, but adoption is the harder test
Three years into its National Quantum Mission, India has a 1,000km quantum-secure network and a home-grown 25-qubit computer, but turning that research into revenue and building skills at scale will decide how far it goes Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2026
Grid âruns on coal-age dataâ, warns Open Climate Fix
Open Climate Fix says opening priority energy datasets could cut consumer bills, as a coalition of energy and data innovators urges ministers to act on the clean power mission Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
21 Oct 2026
Burnham ministry shifts look far from fixing datacentre gridlock
Clogged grid queues and speculative planning applications threaten the UKâs 2030 datacentre and clean energy targets. Is a national âsuperministryâ the only way out? Continue Reading
By- Daryl Baxter
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News
21 Oct 2026
Five resellers won one in seven UK public sector IT deals in 2025-26
UK public bodies awarded 7,994 IT contracts worth ÂŁ91bn in the year to August 2026, a figure flattered by framework ceilings, while the typical award was worth ÂŁ164,000 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
20 Oct 2026
Google Cloud power event knocks out UK banks, courts and couriers
Google runs a single UK cloud region, so when one London zone lost power, there was nowhere to failover â most services recovered by late afternoon, but courts are still down Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
20 Oct 2026
BT spreads Global Fabric security across networks
AI-ready networking platform offers optimised secure connectivity, allowing users to scale use of AI agents, cloud applications and autonomous digital workflows Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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Opinion
19 Oct 2026
Sustainability efforts could reverse public datacentre backlash
Datacentres are in the public crosshairs, but AI models could be next. Greenpixieâs John Ridd explains why companies must embrace sustainability data to ensure AI adoption lasts Continue Reading
By- John Ridd, Greenpixie
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Opinion
19 Oct 2026
Cooling â not compute â is the binding constraint on the AI factory
Compute can be bought, but heat rejection must be engineered. Nvidiaâs Ajay Sekar reveals how warm-water liquid cooling is redefining the economics and geography of AI factories Continue Reading
By- Ajay Sekar, Nvidia
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Opinion
19 Oct 2026
Efficient chips cannot save inefficient software
While hardware and datacentres dictate power supply, software creates AI demand. Forresterâs Abhijit Sunil explains why software sustainability must become a core engineering metric Continue Reading
By- Abhijit Sunil, Forrester
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News
19 Oct 2026
Lenovoâs AI Express targets enterprises waiting for AI servers
Lenovo has set a 15 to 25 business day order-to-ship target for three pre-validated AI server configurations, offering faster shipments to enterprises that have struggled to get GPU kit amid a memory crunch Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
19 Oct 2026
Managing and monitoring hyperlocal AI workloads
High-velocity, high-volume data environments can increase the risks and potential impact of management mistakes, especially when running on-premise Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2026
CMA to decide Microsoft strategic market status by February 2027
The CMA proposes to designate Microsoftâs business software ecosystem with strategic market status and sets out a roadmap on Copilot, Teams, cloud licensing and security Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
15 Oct 2026
Waste-to-energy firm picks Stackable on Ionos for sovereignty
Munich plant builder Martin centralises 10GB of telemetry per line each day on open-source Stackable, hosted by Ionos, to dodge US hyperscaler lock-in and the US Cloud Act Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Feature
15 Oct 2026
Beyond Nvidia: how alternative silicon is reshaping datacentre design
Driven by rising inference demands and power constraints, datacentres are evolving beyond Nvidia dominance toward alternative silicon, custom accelerators and edge sites Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2026
ORCA launches PT-3 quantum computer in London datacentre
ORCA Computing unveils PT-3 in London, a room-temperature quantum system paired with Nvidia GPUs to boost AI-driven drug discovery yield and complex energy grid scheduling Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
14 Oct 2026
Starling Bank claims first banking AI trained on UK sovereign cloud
Starling says âtransactional foundation modelâ will train on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions on Civoâs UK cloud â but the data tokenises in Google Cloud first Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
13 Oct 2026
Data dive: The carbon bill for the UKâs datacentre boom
The UKâs existing datacentres emit about 1.5 million tonnes of CO2e a year. A 14.6GW committed pipeline would add about 12 million tonnes a year â or 38 million tonnes if it all runs on gas Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
12 Oct 2026
Capital, not chips, may be the real brake on the AI build-out
The world is spending about $200bn a year running AI models and getting $150bn back, Broadcomâs Hock Tan told DBSâs inaugural Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, with most enterprises yet to see a return Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
11 Oct 2026
How F1 and Lenovo shrank the sportâs travelling datacentre
Three racks of IT kit have become one in Formula 1âs travelling datacentre, and the sport has pulled telemetry processing back to the circuit so teams get their data sooner Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
09 Oct 2026
ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
The Singapore transport operator can now host production Kubernetes workloads on its private cloud, and it wants most of its AI work there, too, as it tries to keep a lid on data exposure and token bills Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
08 Oct 2026
AI + NTT + DATA = A Conversation With Warren O'Driscoll
Had a most fascinating conversation with Warren OâDriscoll, head of security practice at NTT DATA (UK&I) the other day and â yes, that two letter acronym beginning with âAâ and ending in âIâ ... Continue Reading
By- Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing
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News
08 Oct 2026
Broadcom targets 50% VCF 9 adoption by late 2027 as AI speeds vulnerability discovery
Broadcom infrastructure software chief Ram Velaga says AI models that can find software flaws quickly are pushing VMware customers to upgrade faster, and argues enterprises should own rather than rent their AI infrastructure Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
07 Oct 2026
Airtel Business claims enterprise comms first for India with IQ Gateway
DPDP-compliant platform combines fraud protection services with network insights to make conversation safer and more trusted, enabling enterprises to manage multiple service providers and comms channels Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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News
06 Oct 2026
How Optus, Bupa and others are using Databricks
Optus has replaced its legacy data platforms, and Bupaâs marketers now get answers in minutes rather than weeks â two of the experiences shared at Databricksâ Data + AI World Tour in Sydney Continue Reading
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Opinion
06 Oct 2026
Green IT: Taking responsibility for softwareâs physical footprint
Green IT must look beyond physical datacentres to software efficiency. Optimising code, data retention, and architecture reduces energy demand and hardware churn Continue Reading
By- Daniel Smith, Astralis Technology
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News
06 Oct 2026
Microsoft campus datacentre to rely on gas fuel cells until 2037
Plans show a 72MW datacentre proposed for Microsoftâs Thames Valley Park campus has just 1.8MW of grid power secured, so gas-fed fuel cells will power it until around 2037 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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E-Zine
06 Oct 2026
A healthy approach to AI
In this weekâs Computer Weekly, we talk to health and hygiene products manufacturer Reckitt to find out what it has learned about successful AI adoption. Our new buyerâs guide examines process mining. And we reflect on the issues raised around trust in AI at Salesforceâs recent Dreamforce user conference. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
Software architecture as the first line of climate defence
True digital sustainability requires addressing software waste. Refactoring bloated code cuts computational overhead, lowering enterprise energy consumption and hardware churn Continue Reading
By- Shane Herath , Eco-Friendly Web Alliance
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News
05 Oct 2026
Vultr swoops for HPE networking scale-up switching
Cloud infrastructure company to deploy first AMD Helio AI Rack by featuring new purpose-built networking scale-up switching at its US datacentres Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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News
05 Oct 2026
Norwegian AI firm appeals to block Google gigacenter
Local councillors welcome the prospect of becoming one of the worldâs largest centres for AI computing, but a spurned rival thinks they cheated and still got a bad deal Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
It's time to rethink what we mean by a legacy datacentre
Rather than viewing older datacentres as obsolete legacy assets, smart operators are unlocking commercial value by upgrading existing sites for AI and higher density Continue Reading
By- Simon Harris, BCS Consultancy
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
Why scarcity alone won't pay for Asia's AI infrastructure
Singtel, SK Telecom and China Telecom are each betting on a different kind of scarcity. The fibre boom is a reminder that scarcity attracts capital until it disappears Continue Reading
By- Edwin Lin
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News
05 Oct 2026
Nucleus Network taps AI agent to screen clinical trial volunteers
The Australian clinical research organisation is using an AI agent built on Salesforceâs Agentforce to do early screening of trial volunteers, but its doctors still determine who can participate in a trial Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
04 Oct 2026
APAC has the datacentre demand, but turning plans into capacity is the hard part
Asia-Pacific now generates its own datacentre demand, but executives from AWS, Damac Digital and Delta Electronics say the real test is turning announced investments into working capacity Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
30 Sep 2026
âInherent sovereignty is a fallacyâ says Beyond.pl AI factory exec
Beyond.pl built central Europeâs first sovereign AI factory on Everpure and Nvidia kit â now its CEO argues the real issue is operational sovereignty, not where the box sits Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
30 Sep 2026
Trust Bank cuts incident triage time to two minutes with AI agents
The Singapore digital bank is running AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to work out the likely cause of an incident before engineers join the call, with humans still deciding on the fix Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
30 Sep 2026
Everpure adds data management capabilities for production AI
Everpureâs data management updates for production AI feature native MCP support, GPU acceleration and token optimisation to break down enterprise data silos Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
30 Sep 2026
Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures
An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close âthe sovereignty gapâ Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
29 Sep 2026
Dutch datacentre sector pitches itself as relief for an overloaded grid
European datacentre associations argue that building datacentres where renewable power is generated could ease grid congestion in the Netherlands and beyond Continue Reading
By- Kim Loohuis
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Opinion
28 Sep 2026
The GPU mirage on a lazy Sunday afternoon
An attempt to spin up my own Whisper transcription server resulted in an afternoon of sold-out zones and vanishing GPUs â a worm's-eye view of the shortage the industry talks about Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
28 Sep 2026
UiPathâs Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the companyâs Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
25 Sep 2026
AI promises a productivity windfall â who will reap the benefits?
Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea â the âgeneral intellectâ â holds the key to why Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
25 Sep 2026
Microsoft expands Middle East cloud and AI footprint with $10bn commitment
Regional strategy combines infrastructure investment, cyber security partnerships and skills development to support national AI agendas Continue Reading
By- Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly
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Opinion
24 Sep 2026
Why every telco's AI strategy looks different
Singtel, SK Telecom and China Telecom all agree that AI-ready infrastructure is worth building. Where they disagree is on what stays scarce once everyone has built it Continue Reading
By- Edwin Lin
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News
24 Sep 2026
Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin
The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asiaâs first enterprise to adopt Nvidiaâs latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
23 Sep 2026
Lumen lights up Intelligent Internet for AI demands
Infrastructure provider looks to bring cloud-like agility to enterprises with internet model combining on-demand bandwidth, digital control and predictable costs Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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News
23 Sep 2026
DE-CIX launches neutral internet exchange in southern Austria
Southern Austriaâs first neutral Internet Exchange based on edge containers designed to turn the state of Carinthia into a digital hub for the Alps-Adriatic region, backed by âŹ5.7m state investment Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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News
23 Sep 2026
Huawei expands vision for agentic world of infrastructure
Tech and networking giant unveils compute platform based on proprietary computing architecture and key interconnect technology that makes the system possible Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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News
22 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forcesâ hyperscale dependence
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britainâs 48 police forces connect to â and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Feature
22 Sep 2026
Interview: Paris Marx on why hyperscale datacentres pose greater threat than AI âscience fictionâ
Ahead of the release of his latest book, Paris Marx tells Computer Weekly how tech companiesâ insatiable datacentre demands are accelerating the climate crisis Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Sep 2026
Cloud sovereignty: Very complex and difficult to achieve
Achieving true digital sovereignty is immensely difficult as geopolitical tensions, complex global supply chains and âsovereignty-washingâ complicate IT infrastructure security Continue Reading
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Feature
21 Sep 2026
Digital Realty: Aaron Binkleyâs passion and progress in sustainability
From farm to tech: How Aaron Binkley bridged real estate and big tech to drive Digital Realtyâs global sustainability strategy and massive renewable energy shift Continue Reading
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Opinion
21 Sep 2026
Will new grid rules put the future of UK datacentres at risk?
Ofgem's proposed commitment fees aim to clear grid-clogging data centres, but could the upfront costs deter viable projects and threaten the UK's AI ambitions? Continue Reading
By- Peter Dilks, Shakespeare Martineau
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Opinion
21 Sep 2026
Can telcos beat neoclouds in the AI infrastructure race?
With more than $500bn in fresh capital heading for AI infrastructure, neoclouds, hyperscalers and telcos are each betting on a different bottleneck. The winners will be those that correctly identify what stays scarce Continue Reading
By- Edwin Lin
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Feature
21 Sep 2026
CW@60: AI will change the economics of business more profoundly than the cloud
Having been a pioneer of cloud-based software, Evan Goldberg sees even greater potential benefits ahead from AI Continue Reading
By- Evan Goldberg
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Feature
18 Sep 2026
What a new âNatureâs Rightsâ bill could mean for UK datacentres
A âNatureâs Rightsâ bill introduced to Parliament by Green peer Natalie Bennett could change the UKâs approach to datacentre planning and construction Continue Reading
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News
18 Sep 2026
Data dive: London and M4 the datacentre hotspot, but not for long
A fresh count of the UKâs existing datacentres finds 1.6GW, mostly in London and the M4, while a projected 14.6GW heads north to get on the grid Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Feature
18 Sep 2026
CW@60: What sport taught me about technology, and vice versa
The leadership traits required for building successful teams - and successful IT projects - span technology and sport, says Capgemini's CTO Continue Reading
By- Steven Webb
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News
17 Sep 2026
MSPs reject datacentre moratorium but pause planning decisions
Government pledges planning guidance by Christmas and environmental impact assessments for schemes of more than 50MW, with Scotlandâs committed pipeline at 14 schemes and 2.4GW Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
17 Sep 2026
TechUK calls for 10-year digital infrastructure strategy
UK tech association warns that the countryâs economic growth, productivity and national resilience depend on urgent action to strengthen its digital infrastructure foundations Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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News
16 Sep 2026
Anthropic picks Singapore for fifth APAC office
The Claude developer has hired a former Google Cloud executive to run its ASEAN business, days after CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to slow down Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
16 Sep 2026
CW@60: The human imperative - what 30 years in tech taught me about innovation
Today's tech job titles would seem like science fiction back in the 1960s, but what hasn't changed is the human perspective on innovation Continue Reading
By- Clare Hickie
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News
15 Sep 2026
Splunk Conf 26: Splunk hopes to build confidence in agentic AI
With trust in AI agents close to rock bottom in the popular imagination, Splunk and Cisco unveiled a series of platform enhancements designed to enhance observability and confidence in agentic AI Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
15 Sep 2026
Salesforce puts Claude and Slack in front of its CRM
CRM giant productises the plumbing that lets its own and third-party AI agents operate on the Salesforce platform, and reveals Koa, a reasoning model built with Nvidia Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
15 Sep 2026
UK Atomic Energy Authority readies US artificial intelligence collaboration
The UKAEA plans to work with the US Department of Energy to combine supercomputing power for nuclear fusion research Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
15 Sep 2026
Data dive: The revolving door between Whitehall and big tech
A Computer Weekly data analysis reveals a steady revolving door between Whitehall and major technology suppliers, mapping 63 moves by senior officials to AI and IT suppliers since 2010 Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
15 Sep 2026
Transformers: More than meets the eye in datacentre grid connection
As hyperscale AI data centres scale up to handle intense workloads, advanced super-grid transformers are emerging as the hidden linchpin for resilient, sustainable capacity Continue Reading
By- Mike Golding, Virtus Datacentres
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E-Zine
15 Sep 2026
How to survive and thrive as a modern CIO
In this weekâs Computer Weekly, we examine the growing complexity of the CIO role â and talk to leading IT chiefs about their tips for success. Amid all the fuss and investment around AI datacentres â is there a better, cheaper way than the billions being spent on GPUs? And Microsoftâs customer security chief talks about making her mark in the cyber security arena. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Sep 2026
CW@60: Navigating the waves and storms of technological change
Technology has changed dramatically in the last 60 years - but the principles underlying its successful use in enterprises remain constant Continue Reading
By- Maynard Williams
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News
14 Sep 2026
CDC chief backs datacentre standards as social licence runs short
CDC Data Centreâs Greg Boorer says the proposed national rules on water and energy will be good for the industry, but warns that years of deliberate anonymity have left operators with no community relationships to fall back on Continue Reading
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Feature
14 Sep 2026
Skills, culture and leadership: The foundations of the UAEâs digital economy
Fatma Ashkanani, chief people and culture officer at Khazna Data Centers, discusses the changing nature of technology talent, the importance of inclusive leadership and the growing role of Emirati women in shaping the countryâs digital future Continue Reading
By- Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly
- 14 Sep 2026
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Feature
14 Sep 2026
Gartner: Why the cloud is holding back agentic AI
Edge computing has stopped being a niche networking conversation and is showing up in board-level infrastructure discussions Continue Reading
By- Pankil Sheth
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Feature
11 Sep 2026
IT event dive: Through the AWS public sector symposium revolving door
What goes on in the gaps between reporting on vendor events, with a morning spent absorbing thousands of words at the AWS Public Sector AI Symposium in London Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
11 Sep 2026
Why Asiaâs IT leaders are skipping the all-or-nothing virtualisation rebuild
VMware subscriptions signed after the Broadcom deal are coming up for renewal across ASEAN, and the new terms look nothing like the old ones. Absorbing the increase or rebuilding everything on containers are not the only two choices Continue Reading
By- Gayathri Peria
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News
11 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must shape AI, use open source
As frontier models outpace cyber defences, two public sector voices set out different answers to the same security question â transparency and procurement leverage Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Feature
11 Sep 2026
CW@60: Nobody notices when it works
Sixty years of invisible engineering exists behind the systems we take for granted, explains Amazon's CTO Continue Reading
By- Werner Vogels
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News
10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: TeenTech alumni call for AI literacy in schools
Maggie Philbin charity urges public sector leaders to mentor and sponsor, as students demand education reform, soft-skill extracurriculars and a âmission in AI literacyâ Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: UHCW adds an operation a day with AI
UHCW added daily theatre capacity and got correct utilisation data using Proximieâs AI as part of what partners describe as the NHSâs largest surgical AI deployment Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
10 Sep 2026
AWS AI Symposium: Public sector must move to full AI transformation
AWS says public sector AI adoption must move to âfull transformationâ as it shows advanced workflow redesign yields 68% efficiency gains at its London symposium Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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News
10 Sep 2026
Qualcomm and Amazon team for next-gen AI datacentre infrastructure
Leading mobile platform provider collaborates with cloud giant across optical connectivity and customised silicon to support artificial intelligence infrastructure within datacentre networks Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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News
09 Sep 2026
Dell touts platform play as AI demand goes beyond cloud suppliers
Enterprises and sovereign buyers are accounting for a growing share of Dellâs AI infrastructure business, and its chief strategy officer has some advice for buyers still waiting for the market to settle Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
09 Sep 2026
Zayo advances network as a service with agentic networking
Digital network infrastructure provider claims first production Model Context Protocol server built specifically for networking Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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Blog Post
09 Sep 2026
Bold Security CEO: AI has quietly walked security back to the endpoint
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Nati Hazut, CEO and Co-founder of Bold Security. Bold Security is known for its AI-driven endpoint security platform that monitors ... Continue Reading
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News
08 Sep 2026
UK committed datacentre pipeline grows to more than 14GW
Barbour ABI data show UKâs datacentre pipeline has grown to 173 projects and more than 14GW of capacity, driven by AI demand and large sites in Scotland and the North East Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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07 Sep 2026
Pay more, check nothing: Councils buy Microsoft but donât test
A Computer Weekly analysis of FOI responses from 37 English councils found 32 have never run a competitive procurement in which an alternative to Microsoft could have won Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Sep 2026
Climate resilience reveals key enterprise networking blind spot
Climate risk has moved from being an environmental externality to being a direct risk to productivity, continuity and the balance sheet â and network infrastructures are very much in the firing line Continue Reading
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News
04 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping NHS hyperscaler dependence
Mapping NHS DNS data reveals a heavy reliance on US hyperscalers, with Microsoft 365 routing email and infrastructure for the vast majority of trusts in a tangled web of connections Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
04 Sep 2026
The future of AI depends on the quality of the data behind It
More data doesn't mean better insight. As AI grows, foundations matter most. Competitive advantage relies on data quality, not scale. Ensure your data is ready first Continue Reading
By- Immy Ullah, HSS ProService Marketplace
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News
02 Sep 2026
AWS sets 2026 opening date for Saudi cloud region
New cloud region, AI partnerships and skills programmes underscore AWSâs growing role in supporting Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 Continue Reading
By- Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly
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Feature
02 Sep 2026
CW@60: Action is the antithesis of anxiety
Zahra Bahrololoumi, CEO of Salesforce UK & Ireland, charts a career through three decades of seismic tech shifts to arrive at a philosophy for meeting AI head-on Continue Reading
By- Zahra Bahrololoumi
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Feature
01 Sep 2026
Datacentre water use: Not so simple a picture as often painted
Datacentres face intense scrutiny over water use. This article examines how cooling technologies, server efficiency and location shape their real footprint Continue Reading
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News
01 Sep 2026
DE-CIX expands global AI-ready connectivity with Microsoft Azure route
Dual-homed architecture across North America, Europe and Asia designed to deliver resilient, geo-redundant Microsoft Azure connectivity for latency-sensitive enterprise and AI workloads Continue Reading
By- Joe OâHalloran, Computer Weekly
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News
01 Sep 2026
Pay more, check nothing: Councils buy Microsoft but donât test
A Computer Weekly analysis of FOI responses from 37 English councils found 32 have never run a competitive procurement in which an alternative to Microsoft could have won Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Datacentre and cloud editor (acting)
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Opinion
01 Sep 2026
AI factories will depend on a reliable data infrastructure
AI factories shift enterprises from isolated AI experiments to scaled operations. Success depends less on raw GPU compute and more on trusted, secure, and governed data infrastructure. Continue Reading
By- Paul Speciale, Scality
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Feature
01 Sep 2026
CW@60: Why the excitement of a floppy disk is key to public sector IT success
Computer Weekly's Lis Evenstad reflects on how technology can inspire us â and why that matters when delivering public sector IT Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Sep 2026
How to get hardware, software and even edge AI working in harmony
Presenting the right subset of data to the right endpoints, especially in real time, means juggling an array of constraints Continue Reading
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News
01 Sep 2026
Snowflake: dashboard-era access controls wonât govern AI agents
The companyâs chief data and AI officer talks up efforts to move access controls into the data layer, the cost of dynamic model routing and why governance cannot be baked into model weights Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
