Free space optics: To the moon and back
Optical communication could transform the space industry, if it can beat the weather
Long Reads - UK & Ireland
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Retail colo in the age of AI: One size does not fit all
Insights from a small-scale Edge retail colocation facility in East London
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Arm's race: Building the AGI CPU
Britain's chip design champion is making its own silicon for AI data centers
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Surfing on the Tube
How TfL is bringing Internet connectivity to the London Underground, one station at a time
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How IT infrastructure gives Formula 1 world champions McLaren the drive to succeed
A strong digital backbone has helped put Lando Norris and his team in pole position
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Boldyn: London's TfL streetscapes are ideal hosts for providing mobile coverage boost
Crowded rooftops require small cells, says Boldyn Networks CTO
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The data center public hearing (almost) no one showed up to
Visions of the past and the future in Slough
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The Wellcome Sanger Institute: Data in its DNA
How the genomics research institution has grown its IT estate and cut its energy bills
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Quantum for good: Are trapped ion qubits the future of drug discovery?
Universal Quantum is on a mission to help develop a cure for endometriosis
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UK ISPs and altnets on Openreach’s telephone exchange exits
DCD talks to Zen, Netomnia, CityFibre, Neos Networks, and APFN about the UK’s upcoming mass exchange closure
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Inside the data center built to withstand a nuclear blast
Cyberfort takes digital sovereignty underground
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Copper exchanges in all shapes and sizes
A dive into the history of telephone exchanges in the UK
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History exchange: London telephone exchanges in focus
DCD looks at some of the more notable telephone exchanges in London
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BT’s landlord looms large over the UK’s telephone exchanges
What's to become of the UK's old telephone exchanges?
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The end of the line: The UK’s copper switch-off
How BT & Openreach are approaching the end of copper
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Copper gets the cold shoulder
The end is nigh amid the global fiber rollout
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A Waste(d) Opportunity: How can the UK utilize data center waste heat?
Heat reuse from data centers remains underutilized in the UK, is that about to change?
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The IT behind "Science for Humanity"
Imperial College London’s CIO Jenny Rae on running a university’s technology backbone
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Silicon Valleys: How Wales aims to become a data center hub
The nation is playing an increasingly important role in the UK data center sector
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Capturing carbon - Is DAC a perfect match for data centers?
DCD discusses DAC with Mission Zero CEO Dr. Nicolas Chadwick
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Incinerate to generate: Is EfW a viable option for data centers?
DCD takes a deep dive into Ark Data Centres' private wire PPA with London Energy’s Edmonton EfW EcoPark
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The ticking time bomb of legacy retail IT
John Lewis Partnership on its massive cloud migration project
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The forgotten workforce: Suicide in construction
The growth of data centers relies on a long-suffering workforce
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Handling a nation’s confidential data
GCHQ loves its secrets. It also loves reading yours
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AI chip startup Fractile is grappling with the inference time concept
Inference is the new AI buzzword. Fractile is building hardware to support it at scale
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Here, Vaire, and everywhere: A bet on billions of reversible computing chips
Meet Vaire Computing, the chip startup hoping to reverse the trend for hotter chips
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How Virgin Media O2’s heartbeat drives its mobile network
A data center west of London plays a vital role in allowing one of the UK’s largest telcos to stay connected
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London calling: The outlook for the UK's data center market in 2025
The government's pro-digital infrastructure approach could reap rewards for developers