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Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while Lond...

June 17, 2026

London

Groq and IBM Partner on Agentic AI Capabilities

AI chip startup Groq has partnered with IBM to provide agentic AI capabilities via GroqCloud on IBM watsonx Orchestrate. Under the terms of the agreement, the partners will also integrate Red Hat’s open source vLLM technology with Groq’s LPU chips, with plans to support IBM Granite models on G...

October 20, 2025

Kyndryl

IBM and GlobalFoundries end legal dispute

IBM and GlobalFoundries (GF) have reached a settlement in their long-running legal dispute which saw both companies claim breach of contract and misuse of trade secrets and intellectual property. The two companies said the undisclosed settlement resolves “all litigation matters” and would allo...

January 07, 2025

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IBM to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available via IBM Cloud

IBM is planning to make AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs available as a service via IBM Cloud. The GPUs will be rolled out on the platform in the first half of 2025, with the aim of improving the performance and power efficiency of generative AI models and high-performance computing applications.“As e...

November 20, 2024

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IBM unveils quantum data center in Germany

IBM this week announced the launch of the facility, at IBM's campus in Ehningen near Stuttgart, in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. It is IBM's second quantum data center, featuring three systems - one based on IBM's Heron processor, alongside two other new systems that w...

October 01, 2024

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Riken to deploy IBM quantum computer

Japanese research institute Riken is set to deploy an IBM quantum computer at its facilities in Kobe. The quantum system – to be powered by a 133-qubit Heron processor – will be colocated and integrated with the organization’s existing Fugaku supercomputer. “Riken is committed to developing sy...

May 01, 2024

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IBM signs agreement with Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry

IBM has signed an agreement with both the Quebec government and the Canadian government to strengthen the country’s semiconductor industry. Following this agreement, IBM and the two governments invest C$187 million (US$137m) in the company’s Bromont plant in Quebec to bolster the country’s as...

April 29, 2024

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IBM to buy Hashicorp for $6.4 billion

IBM is set to buy out HashiCorp, a vendor that makes software to help businesses manage digital infrastructure, for $6.4 billion. It will pay $35 per share for HashiCorp. The company’s stock had been trading at a price of $24.88 before the deal was announced."Enterprise clients are wrestling w...

April 24, 2024

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Viasat launches new headquarters in London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for t...

April 15, 2024

London

IBM and RPI launch a new quantum computer in New York

IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have launched a quantum computer at RPI’s campus in New York. A chapel that the university repurposed in the 1960s, the quantum computer is be positioned next to a stained glass window and serves as a focal point of RPI’s new Curtis Priem Quantum ...

April 06, 2024

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Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

March 29, 2024

London

Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said stron...

February 29, 2024

London

Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of value...

January 10, 2024

London

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its curre...

November 18, 2023

London

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...

October 23, 2023

London

New York-based IBM spin-out Kyndryl to separate China business in response to changing data laws

Global IT managed services provider Kyndryl is now considering separating its business in China into a separate entity in response to several geopolitical issues and the changing data laws in China.According to a report from the Financial Times, the IBM spin-out revealed this to some of its em...

October 03, 2023

Kyndryl

Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

July 27, 2023

London

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up t...

July 05, 2023

London

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

June 14, 2023

London

IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany

IBM will construct a data center in Germany to house quantum processors. This week, the company revealed plans to establish its first quantum data facility in Europe on the IBM campus in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, to facilitate cutting-edge quantum computing for businesses, research institution...

June 07, 2023

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