Tag: compute
33 articles tagged compute
Anthropic adds $35bn Lambda deal days after Nscale
A 350MW Texas site takes Anthropic's disclosed compute commitments past $80bn in a week, with Nvidia reportedly holding the lease on the data centre itself.
AI investment starts showing up in official UK output data
Information and communications delivered almost half of Britain's 0.4% second-quarter growth, with hardware spending pushing capital investment to £22.1bn.
Anthropic starts designing its own chips to run Claude
The Claude maker is hiring hardware engineers to build custom silicon, responding to a shortage of the processors needed for advanced AI work.
Half of the world's mega datacentre projects may stall
The Uptime Institute says about half of 250 large datacentre projects announced since 2021 will be cancelled or delayed, straining the AI boom's foundations.
MSAI signs £50m deal to expand UK sovereign AI compute
MSAI has agreed a £50m financing partnership with Denmark's EPOKA to build out UK-based AI compute, making its Scotland campus its main site.
AMD, Dell and Cambridge open UK sovereign AI lab SAIL
AMD, Dell and the University of Cambridge are launching the Sovereign AI Innovation Lab, adding to a fast-growing Cambridge cluster of public AI compute.
Nebius pledges almost £2bn for UK AI data centres
Nebius co-founder Arkady Volozh will spend almost £1.7bn on three UK AI data centres and triple local headcount, in a boost for Britain's compute ambitions.
UK confirms £1.1bn plan to back British AI chips and compute
Liz Kendall has unveiled a £1.1bn AI Hardware Plan: a £750m national supercomputer, advance chip purchases and a record British Business Bank fund to secure UK AI sovereignty.
EU's €20bn AI gigafactory plan faces 'cathedrals in the desert' criticism
MEPs and analysts question the demand case for four-to-five mega facilities; critics warn EU compute strategy may miss Europe's industrial strengths.