Prime Minister and Chancellor welcome Microsoft's £2.5 billion investment to expand AI data centre infrastructure

Prime Minister and Chancellor welcome Microsoft's £2.5 billion investment to expand AI data centre infrastructure
Two custom-designed chips will deliver AI services and will be used internally in Microsoft data centres and Azure cloud
Gartner forecasts European IT spending to rise next year, with software and IT services segments to see the most growth
Microsoft to spend A$5 billion ($3.2 billion) to expand AI and cloud capabilities in Australia, to help bolster skills and cyber security
New class of data centres are to be constructed by iPhone maker Foxconn and Nvidia to “accelerate the AI industrial revolution”
Despite economic worries, Gartner says IT spending in 2024 will rise 8 percent, but spending on generative AI will not feature
US chipmaker AMD is to acquire startup Nod.ai for undisclosed amount, as AI competition against rival Nvidia ramps up
Project Clover effort to alleviate Chinese state surveillance fears, sees TikTol open first European data centre, with more to follow
Quarterly profits at Nvidia rocket up 843 percent, as GPU powerhouse benefits massively from demand for AI chips
David Watkins, solutions director for VIRTUS Data Centres, dispels the sustainability myths that continue to surround the data centre sector
Some good news for the tech sector, after Gartner predicts rise in IT spending during 2023, despite economic uncertainty
Defence contractor Nammo blames TikTok data centre for hampering effort to ramp up ammunition production for Ukraine
Meta axes construction of two additional data centres in Europe, as Facebook continues cost cutting measures
Fancy paying twice for data centre server chips? 'Intel On Demand' webpage signals major change to the way users pay for CPUs
Talk about cloud computing! European Commission chooses Thales Alenia Space to lead feasibility study for data centres in orbit
Google Cloud deploys its new C3 machine series, featuring the Intel infrastructure processing unit E2000, co-designed by Google and Intel
British chip designer ARM Holdings reveals its next generation data centre chip design, dubbed Neoverse V2
As the UK temperature soared to a record high on Tuesday, a cooling failure resulted in an outage at a Google data centre in London
BT’s digital unit signs five-year deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS), as it transitions its legacy infrastructure and apps to cloud-first architecture
CEO Sundar Pichai confirms hefty spending plans for Google in 2022 in the United States, which includes new offices and data centres
Political and local opposition in the Netherlands sees Facebook-owner Meta suspend plans to build a giant data centre in Zeewolde
Software giant Microsoft is to build a new energy efficient data centre region in Finland, which will supply heating to nearby cities and towns
Four mega clusters of data centres have been approved in China, and will reportedly utilise renewable power to deliver low carbon server farms
Operators of data centres in Holland have called on the Dutch government to financial support, amid surging electricity prices
Engineers at Facebook are reportedly developing a machine learning chip, as part of its internal chip development program
Going green. Dropbox achieves a lower carbon footprint with news its data centres now run on 100 percent renewable energy
New AWS infrastructure region is slated to arrive in first half of 2023, and will offer cloud services to variety of organisations in Israel
Research boffins at IBM are touting a major leap forward in performance and energy efficiency with a 'world first' 2nm chip
New 'Grace' server chip from GPU giant Nvidia is designed to take the fight to Intel and AMD in the data centre CPU segment
Keeping it cool. After submerging a data centre in the North sea, Microsoft now submerges its servers in so called 'bath tubs'