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
Long Reads - UK
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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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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The data center public hearing (almost) no one showed up to
Visions of the past and the future in Slough
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Is the telecoms industry ready to wave 2G off into the sunset?
While most use 4G and 5G mobile services, IoT devices have prolonged 2G’s 30-year-plus stay
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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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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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The ticking time bomb of legacy retail IT
John Lewis Partnership on its massive cloud migration project
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Handling a nation’s confidential data
GCHQ loves its secrets. It also loves reading yours
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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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Breaking Dawn: Inside the UK's newest AI supercomputer
The Intel-powered machine will support the work of scientists
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How IT helps the life-saving work of the British Heart Foundation
BHF CTO Alex Duncan on deploying tech in the third sector
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Biggin Hill: Once an RAF base, now Formula 1’s key broadcasting hub
Modern tech helps F1's team go remote
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Why Castrol is dipping its toe into immersion cooling for data centers
Cooling fluid for servers is a growing market for oil companies
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When data centers meet quantum computers
What happens when quantum computers arrive in data centers?
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Checking in on Openreach’s UK fiber buildout
Halfway to its aim of 25 million fiber connections, how is Openreach doing?
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Why AtlasEdge is all in on the Edge
And how it hopes to become the McDonald’s of the Edge data center world
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Putting the Edge in a box
Edge data centers aren’t all ISO shipping containers
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Giving a Victorian bathhouse a second life as a data center
An abandoned Victorian bathhouse in Greater Manchester, the Ashton Old Baths has now reopened as a council-owned data center
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UK data center industry largely insulated from UK energy price surge - for now
Long-term deals from large suppliers might insulate operators from the worst for now, but for how long?
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UK data centers still concerned over Brexit
A year since the vote uncertainty remains the biggest threat, and government still doesn’t get data centers, says techUK