The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
A sustainable future for data centers
News - UK & Ireland
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Virgin Media O2 demos Starlink's satellite coverage in remote north Wales
The test outlined the challenges that satellite faces against terrestrial
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Era4 reveals details of hyperscale data center planned for former steelworks in Newport, Wales
First GPUs set to come online next year, could eventually reach 1GW
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BT bolsters 5G Standalone footprint, confirms AI-RAN trials with Nokia, Nvidia
The AI-RAN trials are set to take place in the UK's second city next year
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Cable theft causes Openreach broadband outage for thousands in Thurnscoe, UK
Thieves caused disruption while hunting for copper
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Nexfibre rejects "fundamentally flawed" CMA verdict on £2bn Netomnia acquisition
Declines to offer remedies to regulator
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Developer looks to convert hotel basement into data center in Lancashire, UK
66-year-old hotel getting a facelift
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Google experiences "service disruption" in UK cloud region
Number of banks report issues
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1GW data center proposed alongside solar farm in Norfolk, UK
Would be UK's largest solar park
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Curtis Hall proposes temporary 49.9MW gas power plant for Cardiff data center campus - report
Capacity just under the threshold required for Welsh gov't approval
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Microsoft pulls out of delayed Nscale data center in Loughton, Essex
Would have been Nscale's anchor tenant at the site
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Everton Football Club launches MVNO service
The English football club has phoned it in
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Optical switching startup Salience Labs raises $125m with AMD and Intel participating in round
Series B raise will support continued development and deployment of optical circuit switching technology
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UK council launches heat network feasibility study for proposed data centers near Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire
Will be undertaken by Nordic Energy, with results published in March of next year
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Pure DC completes installation of final transformer at 90MW Brent Cross data center
Energization of the data center is expected later this month
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UK gov’t rejects AI Growth Zone bid to power data center with Drax biomass plant in Selby, North Yorkshire
Applicants claimed the 1.2GW data center would be the largest “carbon negative data center”
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IonQ opens quantum innovation center at University of Cambridge
Quantum firm will deploy a Superion 256 system at the center
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Starling Bank to train transactional foundation model on Civo's UK sovereign cloud platform
Claims to be the first bank to do so
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Photonics quantum firm Orca Computing deploys PT-3 system at Digital Realty’s LHR19 data center
Quantum computer was installed and operational within 24 hours, and is already powering two projects
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Colt, Relativity Networks, NPS deliver hollow-core fiber proof of concept on London network
Connected two Colt network locations in central London
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Echion partners with Proper Voltage to develop 1.6MW energy storage system for AI data centers
Ink MoU to develop an integrated system
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Orcadian Energy terminates data center agreement for North Sea gas field - report
Non-exclusive agreement signed with US digital infrastructure developer back in July
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Vodafone raises cost savings target for UK unit to £1bn
The previous figure was £700 million
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Openreach taps Ciena for 1.6Tbps WaveLogic 6 technology
Optical upgrades will support Openreach's wholesale offering
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1,000-year-old Scottish castle could be destroyed to make way for hyperscale data center
Developer says it will incorporate brickwork at 600MW campus
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Virgin Media O2 slams BT's planned acquisition of TalkTalk, amid CMA's probe into Nexfibre-Netomnia takeover
The telco says the BT deal "has all the characteristics of a stitch-up masked as a rescue deal in the public interest"
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Virgin Media O2 launches 5G Standalone service in Bristol, UK
As carrier further expands 5G+ footprint
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HPE to be connectivity provider at next year's Ryder Cup in Ireland
Will deploy Self-Driving Network to provide an up to par experience
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BT to scoop up TalkTalk as part of rescue deal
Struggling network has been seeking a buyer for a while