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1 week ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has opened a formal investigation into X (formerly Twitter) over the alleged use of personal data of EU citizens as training data for the Grok AI application. The inquiry will focus on whether the data from X users across the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) was lawfully processed when it was used to train Grok Large Language Models (LLMs).
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1 week ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
A new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggested the escalating international tariffs, primarily driven by US Governmental policies, may slow growth across the data centre industry. This report focused on how AI is driving demand for data centres, and, as a result, placing higher demand on energy providers to power this infrastructure.
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2 weeks ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
News Hub Written by Nicole Cappella 4 minutes ago Latos Data Centres has called for the rapid deployment of “neural edge” networks—localised, high-density computing facilities purpose-built to meet the real-time demands of artificial intelligence (AI). This vision marks a shift from the prevailing approach to AI infrastructure, which has traditionally centred around massive hyperscale data centres.
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2 weeks ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
Speaking at the New Nuclear Summit in London on Wednesday, David Hogan, European sales chief at NVIDIA, sounded the alarm over the UK’s shrinking energy base. He access to stable, carbon-free power has now become the “biggest limiting factor” for AI development, as the demands of the technology rapidly outpace traditional power supply models.
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3 weeks ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
News Hub Written by Nicole Cappella 9 hours ago Mohamed Awad, head of infrastructure at Arm, has said that Arm is projecting to have a 50% market share in data centre CPU by 2025, from approximately 15% in 2024. In an interview with Reuters, Awad attributed this dramatic growth to the increasing demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Arm’s technology is widely used as the host processor in AI computing systems, acting as a traffic controller for AI chips.
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3 weeks ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
Leader in UK edge infrastructure, Pulsant, has announced the acquisition of two data centres from SCC. These data centres, located in Birmingham and Fareham, will bring Pulsant’s total number of UK data centres to 14 and is a part of the company’s growth strategy and focus on long-term stability. The Birmingham data centre has a power capacity of 2MW with 25,000 sq ft of white space, while the Fareham location has a slightly higher capacity of 3MW.
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1 month ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
News Hub Written by Nicole Cappella 3 days ago Image Credit: DC ByteA judicial review of the enormous Art Data Centres Ennis campus in County Clare has been denied. The development, first proposed in 2019 and approved in 2022, was submitted for a judicial review by environmentalists opposed to the project. The original application for judicial review was denied this week, though this decision may be appealed.
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1 month ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
Last week, Heathrow Airport was closed after a fire at a local electrical substation caused a significant power outage. However, local data centres – which account for 10% of traffic in the London metro area – weathered the disruption without reported downtime, demonstrating the effectiveness of backup power and resiliency strategies in the data centre industry. What happened at Heathrow?
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1 month ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
News Hub Written by Nicole Cappella 2 days ago RWE, the biggest power generator in the UK, has just inked a 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Telehouse International. According to the terms of this deal, RWE will provide a significant amount of renewable electricity to Telehouse’s London Docklands campus through 2035. The energy will be supplied by the London Array offshore wind farm, situated in the outer Thames Estuary.
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1 month ago | 
techerati.com | Nicole Cappella
Data centre operators can anticipate a sixfold increase in demand for data centre services over the next five years, according to a new survey commissioned by Ciena. Results also indicated that up to 43% of new data centre construction will be dedicated to AI workloads. The study, conducted in collaboration with Censuswide, surveyed over 1,300 data centre decision-makers across 13 countries.
