Caroline Donnelly

London

Computer Weekly senior editor. Cloud/datacentre aficionado. Professional guinea pig and good dog evangelist. News tips: [email protected]

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National Grid starts building large-scale substation to support growth of West London datacentres

4 days ago | computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly

The National Grid has confirmed that it is in the process of building its largest new electrical substation in response to the growing demand for datacentres in West London. The facility will be sited just outside of Greater London in Buckinghamshire and will, according to the National Grid, enable a dozen new datacentres to be connected to its electricity transmission network.
Planning permission sought for UK’s largest AI datacentre campus

5 days ago | computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly

Positive sign Council leader Rob Waltham said the proposed project is “another positive sign of confidence in our economy and in North Lincolnshire as a place to do business”. “It’s further evidence that the work we are doing to enable growth and create the conditions for private investment is delivering real results and better-paid jobs for our communities,” he said.
Adidas confirms customer data was accessed during cyber attack

1 week ago | computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly

Adidas has suffered a data breach that has affected customers who have previously had cause to contact the sportswear brand’s customer service helpdesk. The company confirmed the incident in a post on its website, dated 23 May 2025, that stated it had recently suffered a data breach after an unauthorised external party obtained “certain consumer data” through a third-party customer service provider used by Adidas.
DSIT tells Ofcom to prepare to expand regulatory remit to include datacentres

1 week ago | computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly

Preparations are underway for Ofcom to expand its regulatory remit to include datacentres, as the government seeks to harden up the “soft points” in the UK’s cyber defences through the enactment of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (CSRB).
Police Digital Service board director quits several months after CISO departs

2 weeks ago | computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly

A senior figure from the Home Office has stepped down as a director at the Police Digital Service (PDS), several weeks after the organisation lost its chief information security officer (CISO) to the private sector. A Companies House filing confirms Bethan Page-Jones, the head of the Home Office’s national police capabilities unit, had her appointment terminated on 14 May 2025.
HMRC’s hunt for hyperscaler to lead £500m datacentre exit project deemed ‘anti-competitive’

2 weeks ago | computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly

Server inventory The contract notice also confirmed that HMRC’s on-premise server inventory features technologies from a wide variety of manufacturers, including HP, IBM, Red Hat, SUSE, VMware, Oracle, Microsoft and NetApp.
“1分”で消費者の声を分析大手玩具メーカーの「Google Cloud」活用事例：データ処理時間が1カ月から1分に

3 weeks ago | techtarget.itmedia.co.jp | Caroline Donnelly

2025年4月、Googleはクラウドコンピューティングに関する年次イベント「Google Cloud Next 2025」を開催した。イベントでは、Mattelの会長兼CEOのイノン・クライツ氏が登壇し、Google Cloudの活用事例を紹介した。1945年におもちゃメーカーとして創業したMattelは、さまざまなおもちゃブランドや商品群を抱える世界有数のブランド管理企業だ。 Mattelの質、安全、持続性部門のバイスプレジデント、ジョセフ・ビンハイス氏によると、同社はGoogle Cloudのデータ分析機能を使用して、消費者からのフィードバックをリアルタイムで分析している。Google Cloudを導入する前は、従業員が手作業でフィードバックを分類、集計していた。Google Cloudを使うことで、データの処理時間を1カ月から1分に短縮できた。クライツ氏は、「電話やメール、オンラインレビュー、ソーシャルメディアのコメントなど、膨大な件数のフィードバックを、Google...
Pannes dans les datacenters : moins fréquentes, mais attention à l’IA | LeMagIT

3 weeks ago | lemagit.fr | Caroline Donnelly

Les pannes de centres de données sont de moins en moins fréquentes et graves. Leurs causes sont principalement les problèmes d’alimentation électrique et les cyberattaques de type ransomware. Tels sont les enseignements d’une récente étude du cabinet Uptime Institute Intelligence.
AI adoption: AWS addresses the skills barrier holding back enterprises

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly

Accelerating AI adoption The pace at which AI adoption is progressing was a key theme of the AWS Summit keynote, with Alison Kay, vice-president and managing director for the UK and Ireland at AWS, shining a light on how various startups are using AI to their advantage. “Just 12 months ago, we talked about the extraordinary potential of generative AI, and today we are no longer just talking about the potential, but witnessing real, great [developments],” she said.
Datacentre outages decreasing in frequency, Uptime Institute Intelligence data shows

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Caroline Donnelly

Power supply problems remain the most common cause of “impactful” datacentre downtime incidents, but ransomware attacks are the leading cause of major public outages, research from Uptime Institute Intelligence reveals. The datacentre market watcher’s Annual outage analysis report 2025 tracks the frequency and severity of datacentre outages suffered by respondents to its surveys.