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UK AI data centre investments: Empty promises or slow growth?
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (611+ words) Billions of pounds have been pledged to fuel AI across the UK. Yet, a new investigation suggested these efforts are not yet tangible and that the data centre industry is "riddled" with "phantom investments". According to The Guardian, the money…...
Cisco’s Jeetu Patel: Telcos can’t ‘stay on the sidelines’ with AI
22+ hour, 31+ min ago (626+ words) The industry is entering the "second big phase" of AI " a new, more consequential phase, according to Cisco's chief product officer Jeetu Patel. Moving beyond experimentation, he explained how service providers (SPs) will need to act to remain competitive. He…...
How Cirion Technologies commits to AI data centre growth in Latin America
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (543+ words) Cirion Technologies is expanding its data centre in Buenos Aires to reinforce its commitment to innovation and regional connectivity. As a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology in Latin America (LATAM), the data centre " known as BUE1 " is the most…...
Schneider Electric EVP: AI data centres can’t ‘operate on yesterday’s timelines’
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (737+ words) For Manish Kumar, the new industrial revolution has already begun. In a blog post this week, Manish Kumar shared how he had been appointed executive vice president of the secure power and data center division at Schneider Electric " during a…...
How are tech & telecom giants supporting amid Middle East attacks?
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (506+ words) Over the weekend, it was revealed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) temporarily shut its power at its data centre in the UAE after objects hit the site, causing sparks and a fire. However, the technology giant has confirmed that two…...
Salesforce & Nvidia CEOs dismiss ‘SaaS-pocalypse’ fears
1+ week, 5+ day ago (428+ words) Benioff said: "If there is a "SaaS-pocalypse, it may be eaten by the "SaaS-quatch because there are a lot of companies using a lot of SaaS because it just got better with agents." "Anthropic runs its whole operation on Salesforce…...
DE-CIX: Policy, not just infrastructure, will shape Brazil’s data future
1+ week, 5+ day ago (938+ words) As demand for cloud services, streaming, fintech and AI accelerates, the country is no longer just consuming data, it is shaping how data is created, stored and exchanged across an entire region. New data centres are being built, subsea cables…...
Anthropic blasts China’s top AI labs for stealing its model
1+ week, 5+ day ago (995+ words) US-based AI firm Anthropic has blasted three prominent Chinese laboratories for conducting what it described as "industrial-scale campaigns" to extract the capabilities of its Claude model illicitly. In a detailed public statement, Anthropic said it had "identified industrial-scale campaigns by…...
Marc Ganzi at Metro Connect 2026: AI monetisation hinges on industrialisation
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (1002+ words) 25 years ago, DigitalBridge'CEO Mark Ganzi sat at the first ever Metro Connect USA event. Today, he headlined the event with his keynote address at Metro Connect 2026 in Fort Lauderdale to share how he's seen the event evolve way beyond discussions…...
As AI researchers exit, infrastructure investors watch the governance debate
2+ week, 6+ day ago (371+ words) A growing number of senior AI researchers have left leading model developers over the past year, publicly warning that commercial pressures risk outpacing safety work, a development with implications that extend well beyond Silicon Valley. High-profile departures from companies including…...