Tag: AI infrastructure
90 articles tagged AI infrastructure
Nscale's IPO filing shows £104m revenue and a £755m half-year loss
The London AI cloud operator's US listing papers show revenue up more than thirteenfold, a much wider loss, and a single customer supplying 52% of sales.
Planned UK datacentres may create 10,400 jobs, not 40,000
Thinktank Verdant puts direct employment across the planned estate at a quarter of TechUK's projection. Ministers dispute the measure rather than the count.
The case that AI will need far fewer data centre GPUs
As workloads shift from training to inference, smaller models and purpose-built silicon are loosening the hyperscale GPU cluster's grip on enterprise AI.
Police Scotland warns of protest risk at Larbert data centre
A planning consultation letter tells the developer to expect opposition and plan security — one of the first official acknowledgements of UK data centre unrest.
Outlander star attacks Scotland's AI data centre applications
Sam Heughan calls the data centre boom a short-sighted money grab, as 24 proposed Scottish sites would more than double the country's peak demand.
Fife village opposes 600MW AI datacentre 'larger than the village itself'
Auchtertool community council vows to fight ILI's 600MW hyperscale site as Scotland's datacentre pipeline outstrips peak grid demand.
Microsoft frames £23bn UK investment as AI infrastructure bet
Microsoft UK CEO Darren Hardman positions £23 billion datacentre and skilling spend as the foundation of a British 'intelligence economy', ahead of London Tech Week.
Cisco shares jump 17% on AI infrastructure orders alongside 4,000 job cuts
Cisco shares rose 17% to a record high after the firm raised its AI infrastructure order forecast to $9bn and announced about 4,000 job cuts to refocus on silicon and optics.
Argyll launches UK sovereign AI inference cloud with SambaNova
Argyll Data Development has launched a UK sovereign AI inference cloud built with SambaNova for defence, healthcare and finance customers needing UK jurisdiction.
Meta strikes multi-billion-dollar Graviton5 deal with AWS
Meta will run tens of millions of cores' worth of AWS Graviton5 CPUs as inference compute spreads beyond Nvidia GPUs.
UK departments at odds on AI datacentre energy demand
DSIT and DESNZ projections for AI datacentre power use diverge by an order of magnitude as the UK's compute and net-zero plans collide.
UK 'powered land' valuations surge as AI data-centre queue balloons
Britain's AI data-centre gold rush has pushed land prices to £15m/acre on power-ready sites, with 119 projects in planning and 50 GW of grid requests queued.
OpenAI to open first permanent London office in 2027 amid UK data-centre pause
OpenAI secures King's Cross space for 544 staff as its largest research hub outside the US, days after pausing its UK data-centre project over regulation.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang bets big on token economics as AI's new currency
Nvidia's CEO outlined a vision where tokens become the fundamental unit of AI value, but significant gaps remain between production costs and real-world revenue.
Goldman Sachs Sees AI Investment Shifting to Data Centre Infrastructure
Goldman Sachs Research predicts AI workloads will account for 30% of data centre capacity within two years, with global power demand rising 175% by 2030.
UK AI firm Nscale raises £1.6 billion in Nvidia-backed funding round
British AI infrastructure company Nscale valued at £11.7 billion after $2 billion Series C round led by Norway's Aker and 8090 Industries.
UK Data Centre Cuts AI Power Draw by 40% on Demand in National Grid Trial
A five-day trial near London demonstrated that GPU clusters can dynamically reduce power consumption by up to 40% in response to grid events without disrupting workloads.
UK Protesters to March Against AI Data Centre Expansion
Campaigners are staging protests in London this weekend to demand stronger protections against the environmental impact of the UK's growing data centre infrastructure.
AI memory chip famine pushes up smartphone and PC prices
The race to build AI data centres has created an acute shortage of DRAM and NAND memory chips, driving up costs for phones, PCs and consoles — with no relief expected before 2027.
UK AI Chip Startup Olix Raises $220m at $1bn Valuation
London-based Olix, founded by 25-year-old James Dacombe, has raised $220m to develop a novel AI chip architecture designed to be faster and cheaper than Nvidia's GPUs.
UK Government Admits AI Datacentre Approval Was Flawed
Ministers concede planning permission for major M25 datacentre should be quashed after failing to properly assess environmental impact.
OpenAI Launches Global Initiative to Expand AI Access Across Countries
OpenAI for Countries aims to close the AI capability gap between nations, with 11 countries signed up for education, infrastructure and disaster planning projects.
BP Abandons UK Hydrogen Project as Data Centre Plans Take Priority
Oil giant BP has withdrawn its Teesside hydrogen plant application after the site was chosen for Europe's largest AI data centre, exposing tensions in government priorities.
Construction Workers See 25-30% Pay Rises in AI Data Centre Boom
The race to build AI infrastructure is creating unprecedented opportunities for skilled trades, with workers earning over $200,000 annually at data centre sites.
Operational Readiness Critical as 40% of AI Projects Face Cancellation
Technology leaders must treat AI as enterprise application requiring unified platform spanning compute, data, and governance to avoid Gartner's predicted agentic AI failure rate by 2027.
UK Announces AI Growth Zones Targeting £100 Billion Investment and Thousands of Jobs
UK Government confirms North Wales as latest AI Growth Zone site, introducing planning and energy reforms to accelerate development and unlock major investment in AI infrastructure.
Meta, Google, and Microsoft Triple Down on AI Spending
Three tech giants report record profits alongside record AI infrastructure investments, raising questions about market sustainability and future demand.