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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

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

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

United Kingdom

National Grid warns of significnlty increased power demand

The CEO of British utility National Grid has warned that data center power use is set to grow dramatically which will put further strain on an already-constrained grid. John Pettigrew said that the UK's energy industry has reached a "pivotal moment," and pitched the development of an ultra-hig...

March 27, 2024

United Kingdom

UK telcos urged to stop installation of new telegraph poles

UK’s Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister Julia Lopez has urged telecommunication companies in the UK to stop the installation of new telegraph poles. The minister wrote a public letter to the operators asking them to prioritize sharing existing telegraph poles ahead of building new ones. ...

March 16, 2024

United Kingdom

UK joins the European Union’s CJU program

The UK has joined the European Union’s ‘Chips Joint Undertaking’ (CJU) program as a “participating state.” This is a move that gives the country access to a €1.3 billion semiconductor research and development fund. “We are very happy to welcome the UK to the Chips Joint Undertaking as a partic...

March 14, 2024

United Kingdom

CWCS acquires property in Nottingham for data center

UK hosting firm CWCS has acquired a property in Nottingham and plans to turn the site into its latest data center. LoopNet lists this property at 3 Padge Road, was built in 1980 and totals 9,300 sq ft (863 sqm) across two floors. Karl Mendez, managing director of CWCS Managed Hosting, said: “I...

March 13, 2024

United Kingdom

UK government clears purchase of Newport Water Fab factory

The UK government has finally approved US electronics company Vishay’s takeover of Newport Wafer Fab factory, the UK’s largest semiconductor manufacturing site. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has now issued a consent order approving the purchase. Under the terms of the agreement, the UK ...

March 05, 2024

United Kingdom

Cloudflare extends server hardware lifespan to five years

Cloudflare, during its Q4 2023 earnings call this week, revealed has become the latest company to extend the lifespan of its server hardware and will save millions of dollars by adding a year to the operational lifespan of its data center IT kit. “With the evolution of the composition of our i...

February 10, 2024

United Kingdom

UK government announces £45 million funding package for quantum projects

The UK government has announced a £45 million funding package to boost the use of quantum technology across a number of sectors, including healthcare, energy, and transport. This comes as quantum technologies is now recognized as one of the five critical technologies set out by the UK governme...

February 07, 2024

United Kingdom

International feasibility study tests storing waste heat underground

A £2.6 million ($3.3m) international project will investigate storing waste heat from an Edinburgh University supercomputer in old mine workings, before using it to heat local homes. This study will examine the idea of storing hot water at 40oC in disused mines before using it for domestic hea...

January 15, 2024

United Kingdom

Octopus Energy invests in UK-based data center business

British renewable energy group Octopus Energy has invested £200 million in UK-based data center business Deep Green which specializes in siting small data centers near locations that need waste heat. Zoisa North-Bond, CEO of Octopus Energy Generation, said, "To tackle the energy crisis head-on...

January 15, 2024

United Kingdom

Kao Data names Doug Loewe as CEO

UK data center firm Kao Data this week announced a change of leadership with an appointment of Doug Loewe as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately. Loewe said, “For almost a decade, Kao Data has established an enviable reputation as a pioneer within the fields of AI and ...

January 09, 2024

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