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Hartlepool & Darlington bid to host new AI Growth Zone

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Hartlepool and Darlington have submitted a bid for an AI Growth Zone, centred on 450MVA data centre power and hundreds of skilled jobs.
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SatVu maps crypto miners’ heat from space in Texas

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SatVu has unveiled high-resolution thermal satellite imagery revealing real-time operational heat from a vast Texas bitcoin mining campus.
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Vespertec warns AI growth will hit hard data centre limits

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Vespertec says AI growth will slam into hard data centre limits by 2026, as chip, memory and cooling bottlenecks reshape infrastructure plans.
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Vertiv outlines five key trends reshaping AI data centres

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Vertiv flags higher voltage power, digital twins and liquid cooling as critical trends reshaping AI-ready data centre design worldwide.
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Beroe links DataHub to MCP to power AI procurement data

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Beroe plugs its DataHub procurement data platform into the Model Context Protocol to feed decision-grade intelligence into enterprise AI.
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Ark builds UK’s first dedicated AI power data centre

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Ark has begun building a Surrey data centre billed as the UK’s first dedicated AI power hub, featuring a 25MVA medium-voltage UPS.
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BCS Consultancy appoints Chris Coward as new COO

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BCS Consultancy names Chris Coward COO to steer global expansion and sharpen operations as AI-driven data centre demand accelerates.
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LFB boosts Lyon R&D sites to meet data centre cooling demand

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LFB’s data centre arm is investing millions in Lyon R&D and factories to ramp up advanced cooling for Europe’s AI-fuelled server boom.
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Vertiv forecasts five trends reshaping AI data centres

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Vertiv flags five AI data centre trends, from high-voltage DC power and liquid cooling to digital twins and on-site energy autonomy.
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Snowflake brings Google Gemini 3 AI models to Cortex

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Snowflake will run Google’s Gemini 3 AI models natively in Cortex, keeping enterprise data in-platform while deepening Google Cloud ties.
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Algolia named an IDC Leader for AI search and discovery

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Algolia named IDC MarketScape Leader in AI search as it posts 38.5% growth and climbs to fifth worldwide in knowledge discovery tools.
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Siemens & nVent unveil AI data centre cooling plan

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Siemens and nVent launch a joint liquid cooling and power blueprint to speed hyperscale NVIDIA AI data centre buildouts and cut energy use.
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AI expansion triggers global race for power and real estate

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AI growth is straining power grids and land as data centre deals soar past USD $10 billion, with the UK emerging as an AI infrastructure hub.
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VAST Data unveils AI-native storage for gigascale inference

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VAST Data debuts AI-native storage powering Nvidia’s context memory platform to keep agentic, gigascale inference fast and predictable.
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Snowflake and Anthropic sign USD $200m AI agents deal

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Snowflake and Anthropic deepen their Claude tie-up with a USD $200m deal to power regulated, enterprise-ready AI agents worldwide.
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Salesforce names Paul Carvouni to lead ASEAN AI push

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Salesforce appoints Paul Carvouni to spearhead ASEAN AI growth from Singapore as region targets trillion-dollar agentic enterprise boom.
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Neurair & Hanugra to build 400MW of AI data centres

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Neurair and Hanugra partner to deliver 400MW of AI-optimised, liquid-cooled data centres across Asia-Pacific, with global rollout in view.
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ZincFive raises USD $30m to scale AI data centre power

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ZincFive secures USD $30m Series F to ramp nickel-zinc battery output as AI data centre power demand and hyperscaler contracts surge.
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Data quality issues - Top causes and consequences

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Flawed, fragmented data is wasting time, money and AI potential; firms must fix ownership, visibility and tooling to restore trust.
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Vertiv & GreenScale partner on AI-ready data centres

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Vertiv wins preferred supplier role for GreenScale’s AI-ready, liquid-cooled data centre campuses, supporting nearly 1 GW expansion in Europe.