September 21, 2024 Finland
IQM Quantum Computers revealed on September 16 thst it has manufactured 30 full-stack quantum computing machines to date at its Espoo, Finland, manufacturing facility. In addition, it has delivered and installed six full-stack quantum computers to customers including the VTT Technical Research...
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September 19, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's telecoms minister Chris Bryant has called for infrastructure sharing amid increasing concern around the number of telegraph poles being installed across the country. He met with 15 operators last week to voice concerns about the deployment of the telegraph poles. This comes as the...
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September 18, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has launched a £175 million coastguard emergency response network across UK coastlines with an aim to prevent the loss of life on the coast and the sea. Technology firm Telent was responsible for designing and building the network, with construction...
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September 09, 2024 United Kingdom
EE has launched its 5G Standalone (5G SA) network in the UK, becoming the third carrier in the country to launch 5G SA, following Vodafone and Virgin Media O2.However, EE is the first to charge a premium for its 5G SA service.“Today, EE is launching UK firsts in network capabilities designed to...
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September 04, 2024 United Kingdom
UK colo firm Stellium Datacenters this week announced a collaboration with immersion cooling firm Submer and petrochemical/immersion cooling fluid supplier ExxonMobil as it plans to develop Submer’s immersion cooling technology at its data center campus in Newcastle. Under the agreement, Submer's...
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August 30, 2024 Sweden
GPU cloud firm CoreWeave and Swedish colocation provider EcoDataCenter this week announced a partnership to host “one of Europe’s first large-scale Nvidia Blackwell clusters” in Sweden. CoreWeave aims to deploy thousands of Blackwell GPUs to help meet demand for large-scale AI infrastructure from...
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August 28, 2024 France
Qualcomm has acquired 4G IoT technology assets from France-based Sequans specializes in supplying 4G and 5G semiconductor products for IoT. This acquisition includes certain employees, assets, and licenses. Nakul Duggal, group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT, and cloud...
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August 23, 2024 Germany / Deutschland
The US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is setting up a Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud in Germany in an attempt to expand DISA cloud offerings outside of the US. According to DISA, JOE is an "interconnected and integrated mesh of large form factor Edge computing platforms, installed...
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August 23, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK's Post Office chief transformation officer, Chris Brockleby, has stepped down from his post following delays in replacing the controversial Horizon IT system. He will depart from the Post Office on September 6, with Andy Nice set to take on the role on an interim basis. Nice was previously...
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August 22, 2024 Switzerland
IonQ last week announced the delivery of an ion trap to its European quantum data center in the QuantumBasel business park. It's specialists working out of the company’s Basel, Switzerland headquarters will be on site to receive the quantum processor and continue the build and commissioning of...
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August 18, 2024 United Kingdom
Quantum Circuits Inc. (QCI) has closed its Series B funding round which raised over $60 million to further its development of quantum technology in an investment round led by Arch Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Hither Creek Ventures. The Yale spin out was founded in 2015...
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August 14, 2024 United Kingdom
UK data center operator Iomart has announced it has installed 560 solar panels on its flagship data center in Maidenhead, the largest of Iomart’s 13 data centers in the UK. This investment will contribute to the aim of self-sustaining energy during the summer to power the site. David Gammie, CTO...
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August 13, 2024 United Kingdom
TalkTalk has struck a refinancing deal with lenders in the UK worth £400 million. This deal will enable TalkTalk to alleviate fears it would default on payments and extend its debt maturities to 2027. A group of SSN holders, a group of RCF banks, Ares Management Funds, and the company’s major...
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August 09, 2024 Switzerland
Nokia has teamed up with Swisscom Broadcast to deploy 300 Nokia Drone-in-a-Box units to support emergency response, perimeter protection, and infrastructure inspection, as well as to protect public safety workers across Switzerland. This marks Nokia's second nationwide deployment of its Drone...
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August 02, 2024 United Kingdom
The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is planning to propose reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework including around the development of data centers. With regards to data centers, the proposals would reform the way that the Nationally Significant Infrastructure...
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July 31, 2024 United Kingdom
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...
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July 31, 2024 Netherlands
Dutch transmission system operator TenneT is looking to invest up to €4.6bn in thousands of kilometers of new transmission infrastructure across the Netherlands and Germany as it looks to update the grid. TenneT CEO Manon van Beek said: “To achieve the 2030, 2045, and 2050 climate milestones and...
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July 28, 2024 United Kingdom
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 of...
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July 27, 2024 United Kingdom
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 target...
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July 25, 2024 United Kingdom
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 first...
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