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Iceotope CEO David Craig to retire in September

Liquid cooling firm Iceotope has announced that CEO David Craig will be retiring, effective September 30 after spending nine years at the helm of Iceotope, previously serving as COO of McLaren Software and the founder of wind turbine developer Green Power partnership. Nathan Blom, chief comme...

July 31, 2024

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Fractile exits stealth with $15 million in seed funding

AI chip startup Fractile has exited stealth with $15 million in seed funding round co-led by Kindred Capital, NATO Innovation Fund, and Oxford Science Enterprises and included participation from a number of angel investors, including Stan Boland, co-founder of Icera, and Amar Shah, co-founder...

July 28, 2024

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Secure I.T. Environments completes upgrade of NHS data center

Modular data center firm Secure I.T. Environments (SITE) has completed a mechanical and electrical upgrade at the data center of St Mary’s Hospital in the Isle of Wight, the UK to accommodate 14 racks with a capacity of 80kW. This upgrade will allow the Isle of Wight NHS Trust to reach its ...

July 27, 2024

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SingularityNet to invest in data center modules from Ecoblox

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) startup SingularityNet, which is developing decentralized and blockchain-based AI infrastructure announced that it will be investing $53 million in data center supercomputing modules. Half of this investment will be used for the creation of world’s fir...

July 25, 2024

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Ofcom fines BT Group for technical fault from last year

UK regulator Ofcom has fined BT Group a fee of £17.5 million ($22.6m) after a technical fault that impacted its ability to handle emergency calls between 06:24 and 16:56 on June 25th, 2023. Suzanne Cater, Ofcom’s director of enforcement said: "Being able to contact the emergency services can...

July 22, 2024

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Infleqtion to install neutral atom quantum computer in Harwell, UK

Quantum component manufacturer Infleqtion will be making history as the first company to install a neutral atom quantum computer at the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) in Harwell, UK. “Our recent installation is part of Infleqtion’s dedication to leading facility logistics in partne...

July 18, 2024

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Queen Mary University of London to reuse heat from data center

Queen Mary University of London in the UK is planning to reuse waste heat from its data center as part of a refurbishment project for the Joseph Priestley Building on the campus. Queen Mary president and principal Colin Bailey said: “By harnessing waste heat and minimizing our carbon footprint...

July 02, 2024

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Microsoft acquires plots of land for data center campus outside Leeds

Microsoft has acquired 48 acres of land at Harworth's Skelton Grange site in Leeds for £106.6 million for a data center development. The deal comprises two adjacent plots, the first plot 27 acres and sold for £52.9 million and the second totals 21 acres and will be sold for £53.2 million.“Si...

June 27, 2024

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Stack unveils new scholarship program for female students in the UK

Stack Infrastructure has launched a scholarship program for female students at universities in the UK which will be available to female students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds planning to study a STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) subject.The company will be responsible for f...

June 25, 2024

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Ada Infrastructure receives approval Docklands data center

Ada Infrastructure recently announced that it has received planning permission from the Newham Strategic Development Committee to develop one of London's largest data center campuses; 210MW data center campus in East London's Royal Docks in the UK.Jennifer Weitzel, president of Ada Infrastruct...

June 25, 2024

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UK Home Office to migrate systems out of police data center

The UK's Home Office is planning to migrate all the systems and services out of a core Police data center located in Hendon, northwest London. The data center is government-owned, and has been home to the Police National Computer - a database of more than 130 million items - for the past 50 ye...

June 17, 2024

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Iron Mountain signs solar energy deal with InRange in UK

Iron Mountain has signed a new energy deal to procure solar power from rooftop solar sites in the UK which InRange which will supply 5MW annually to offset Iron Mountain’s LON-1 facility, aggregated from locally generated rooftop solar power from commercial and industrial buildings.“In our pur...

June 04, 2024

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Manx Telecom unveils dedicated data center division

Isle of Man telecom’s group Manx Telecom has launched a dedicated data center division with the aim to meet "the increasing demand from businesses across the UK offering secure and reliable data storage solutions within the UK Customs Zone.”Stephen Kane, director of commercial strategy at Man...

June 03, 2024

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UK joins European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking

The United Kingdom has become a part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), allowing British researchers and scientists to apply for Horizon Europe-funded research and innovation calls relating to supercomputing. Following this agreement. he UK will also hav...

May 16, 2024

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Sinn Fein politician describes Ireland’s lack of national supercomputer as “embarassing”

Louise O'Reilly, Teachta Dála (TD) and spokesperson for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment of the Sinn Féin political party has criticized the Irish government for failing to acquire a new supercomputer. "High performance computing (HPC) is at the core of the fifth industrial revolution and cen...

May 14, 2024

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UK’s fastest supercomputer now online

The UK’s fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI which ranked 128 on the most recent edition of the Top500 list has come online. The £225 million ($273m) machine has also placed second on the Green500, a list that ranks supercomputers in terms of energy efficiency, with a rating of 68.8 gigaflops ...

May 13, 2024

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Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital gets new data center

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NaHS Trust's Dewsbury and District Hospital in the UK has a new 'digital data center' (DDC). The DDC will be replacing the hospital's former data center, which has become outdated and was not able to be expanded as it was within an existing hospital building. Accordi...

May 10, 2024

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NTT conducts photonics tests in UK and US data centers

NTT has conducted low-latency data center-to-data center light-based photonics tests in the UK and US, claiming latency of less than 1 millisecond between facilities almost 90km apart. In the UK, two data centers around 100 km apart communicated via IOWN APN connection with a round trip of 1...

April 13, 2024

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Civo to abolish data egress fees for customers unconditionally

UK cloud services provider Civo has said that it will abolish all data egress fees for customers, an offer which goes beyond that which is being proposed by the hyperscalers. The company said in a statement: “The end of all egress fees on Civo comes with no requirements or limits, with busines...

April 06, 2024

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JLL to offer training education for next generation data center operators

JLL has revealed its plans to offer free educational and training opportunities for the next generation of data center operators. The company has teamed up with non-profit organization Nomad Futurist Foundation to create a 16-hour curriculum called the Technical Development Program (TDP), bas...

April 01, 2024

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