June 25, 2024 United Kingdom
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...
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June 17, 2024 United Kingdom
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...
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June 04, 2024 United Kingdom
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...
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June 03, 2024 United Kingdom
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 Manx...
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May 16, 2024 United Kingdom
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 have...
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May 14, 2024 United Kingdom
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...
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May 13, 2024 United Kingdom
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 per...
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May 10, 2024 United Kingdom
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. According...
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April 30, 2024 Edinburgh
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...
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April 25, 2024 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, for...
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April 15, 2024 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 the...
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April 13, 2024 United Kingdom
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...
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April 06, 2024 United Kingdom
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 businesses...
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April 01, 2024 United Kingdom
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), based...
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March 29, 2024 London
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...
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March 27, 2024 United Kingdom
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-high...
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March 16, 2024 United Kingdom
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....
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March 14, 2024 United Kingdom
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...
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March 13, 2024 United Kingdom
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: “In...
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March 05, 2024 United Kingdom
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...
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