Dan Robinson

Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks

96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 2027

Systems13 Oct 2026 |

European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene

Moody's forecasts server farms could consume 17% of Dutch electricity and 30% of Ireland's by 2035

On-Prem13 Oct 2026 | 10

SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier

Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers

Networks09 Oct 2026 | 21

US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway

Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year

Offbeat09 Oct 2026 | 33

Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive

Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness

Systems08 Oct 2026 | 11

Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price

AI demand fattens chipmakers' margins while cheaper PCs and phones become harder to produce profitably

Systems08 Oct 2026 | 13

Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels

Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel

Personal Tech07 Oct 2026 | 8

AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit

That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment

AI and ML30 Sep 2026 | 47

7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028

Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise

AI and ML30 Sep 2026 | 4

America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill

Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts

On-Prem30 Sep 2026 | 8

Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment

Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself

On-Prem29 Sep 2026 | 8

Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain

EU firms capture less than 10% of the bloc's datacenter chips, server assembly, and cloud infrastructure markets

Systems28 Sep 2026 | 5

Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount

Regulator intervenes after deciding altnets may be unable to match the offer and recover their costs

Networks28 Sep 2026 | 18

Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites

Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats

Offbeat26 Sep 2026 | 19

Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory

High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch

Channel25 Sep 2026 | 33

UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters

Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames

On-Prem25 Sep 2026 | 72

The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them

Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities

On-Prem23 Sep 2026 | 28

Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes

Another utility sees the light in putting existing telecoms infrastructure to work

Networks23 Sep 2026 | 3

BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth

MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored

Offbeat23 Sep 2026 | 39

UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes

XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests

Offbeat23 Sep 2026 | 41

Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI

First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition

Off-Prem22 Sep 2026 | 1

London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street

Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO

On-Prem21 Sep 2026 | 27

Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty

Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game

On-Prem21 Sep 2026 | 13

AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth

Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap

Off-Prem19 Sep 2026 | 12

British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky

Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas

Offbeat18 Sep 2026 | 44

Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine

QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms

AI and ML17 Sep 2026 | 3

Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows

SYSTEMS Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services

Systems16 Sep 2026 | 7

AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good

OFF-PREM Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible

Off-Prem16 Sep 2026 | 47

UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below

NETWORKS £70M ARIA program backs 18 projects aiming to keep connectivity aloft for a week

Networks16 Sep 2026 | 33

America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them

ON-PREM Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources

On-Prem15 Sep 2026 | 36

Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder

on-prem Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing

On-Prem14 Sep 2026 | 5

Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite

NETWORKS 7.2 Tbps module arrives ahead of standards, with promises of fewer repair headaches

Networks14 Sep 2026 |

Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand

SYSTEMS Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree

Systems11 Sep 2026 |

NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools

AI AND ML Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite

AI and ML10 Sep 2026 | 8

Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment

ON-PREM Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul

On-Prem10 Sep 2026 | 3

Google takes the nuclear option for €13B Finland expansion

ON-PREM 22-year power deal covers up to half of Loviisa plant's capacity, with wind and battery projects alongside

On-Prem09 Sep 2026 | 2

Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider

NETWORKS Users given 45 days to save their mail or sign up with Junara

Networks09 Sep 2026 | 88

Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail

SYSTEMS Startup wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is

Systems08 Sep 2026 | 12

ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips

SYSTEMS Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 2033

Systems08 Sep 2026 | 30

Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform

SYSTEMS New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget

Systems08 Sep 2026 | 5

DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3

storage PC buyers already had enough of helping to fund the AI revolution, only essential refreshes happening now

Storage07 Sep 2026 | 10

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

PERSONAL TECH Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability

Personal Tech07 Sep 2026 | 113

Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox

off-prem No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices

Off-Prem04 Sep 2026 | 20

UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo

OFFBEAT Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense

Offbeat04 Sep 2026 | 138

Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users

AI AND ML When the moon is in the seventh house...

AI and ML03 Sep 2026 | 11

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard

AI AND ML GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem

AI and ML03 Sep 2026 | 23

British wind power to drive Maersk container ship

OFFBEAT Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%

Offbeat03 Sep 2026 | 57

London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above

NETWORKS Mobile signal below ground beats the citywide average, Ookla says

Networks02 Sep 2026 | 14

UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme

AI AND ML Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy

AI and ML02 Sep 2026 | 11

Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed

OFF-PREM New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff

Off-Prem01 Sep 2026 | 8

Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems

offbeat Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle

Offbeat29 Aug 2026 | 16

Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted

on-prem Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met

On-Prem28 Aug 2026 | 46

Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff

SYSTEMS Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November

Systems28 Aug 2026 | 21

Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns

AI AND ML Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive

AI and ML28 Aug 2026 | 25

Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND

STORAGE Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills

Storage26 Aug 2026 | 3

Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist

AI AND ML AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work

AI and ML26 Aug 2026 | 59

EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters

ON-PREM State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits

On-Prem25 Aug 2026 | 6

Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks

European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene

Chatbot refuseniks edge out users in the US, and they’re not for turning

AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit

Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips

SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier

US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway

Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive

Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price

Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels

AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit

7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028

America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill

Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment

Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain

Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount

Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites

Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory

UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters

The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them

Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes

BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth

UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes

Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI

London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street

Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty

AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth

British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky

Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine

Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows

AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good

UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below

America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them

Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder

Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite

Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand

NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools

Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment

Google takes the nuclear option for €13B Finland expansion

Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider

Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail

ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips

Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform

DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox

UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo

Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard

British wind power to drive Maersk container ship

London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above

UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme

Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed

Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems

Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted

Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff

Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns

Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND

Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist

EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters