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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

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 The DDC will be replacing the hospital's former data center, which has become outdated and was not able to be expanded as it was within an existing hospital building.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

Edinburgh University to use waste heat from data center to warm up buildings

Edinburgh University has announced plans to use waste heat from its data center to warm up its buildings and has has received grant funding of just under £2.1 million ($2.62m) to support the energy-saving project at its Kings Buildings campus.The university will also invest £520,000 of its own...

April 30, 2024

Edinburgh

Sky signs new wing PPA in Scotland

UK telco and media firm Sky has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Octopus Renewables Infrastructure to procure the output of a Scottish windfarm. Following this deal, ky UK buy 69 percent of the electricity produced by the 46MW Crossdykes windfarm, located in Lanarkshire, Scotland, ...

April 25, 2024

Scotland

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

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

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

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

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

Mavin to install Powercube data center in South Wales

Mavin, a UK-based IT services firm has announced it will install a Powercube data center at the Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GRCE) in Onllwyn, South Wales. “We are delighted to agree this partnership with Mavin and to utilize their cutting-edge Powercube design at the Global Centre of Rai...

February 23, 2024

Wales

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

Lunar Digital begins upgrade of the Reynolds House data center

Lunar Digital began the planned multi-million-pound upgrade of the Reynolds House data center in Manchester, UK. The company started development works across all the data halls at the site, including full renovations of the C5 and C6 data halls to optimize power and cooling, the deployment of ...

January 19, 2024

Manchester

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