UK Gov should have centralized register of all its data centers, says Gov report
Gov CIO should use new list to drive improvements in data center performance, security, and efficiency, says Lord Maude
News - UK & Ireland
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UK’s former cyber security head says Chinese ownership of Newport chip fab would pose greater threat than Huawei
But the fab is comparatively tiny on the global stage
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Antin Infrastructure Partners acquires Pulsant
PE firm to help data center firm implement a “clear growth strategy underpinned by further investment”
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Politician asks Irish Water to clamp down on wasteful data centers
As households face water restrictions, Labour's Duncan Smith says facilities should be forced to retrofit
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Kao Data shifts backup generators at Harlow campus to vegetable oil-based fuel
Company partners with Crown Oil to replace 45,000 liters of diesel with HVO
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Bank of England says financial sector's reliance on cloud could be a threat to financial stability
A few companies host too many banks, sparking regulatory concern
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Art Data Centres plan in County Clare expands to €1.2bn
€400 million data center proposal is now part of Council's Economic Plan - and three times bigger
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Irish cloud operators plead against proposal to ban new data centers
Tech firms including Apple and Google form lobby group
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EngineNode granted planning permission for data center in County Meath, Ireland
An Bord Pleanála dismissed complaints from environmental groups, but reaffirmed company will pay towards local road and railway developments
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Crown Hosting Data Centres wins £1.2 million contract from Genomics England
Parts of UK citizens’ Genome data to sit in Crown facilities, GEL also uses Azure, AWS, and UKCloud
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TikTok reportedly picks Echelon for Irish data center
Clondalkin campus soon to be home to $500m data center
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Nvidia launches Cambridge-1 supercomputer, the UK's fastest
But company fails to nab any UK politicians for the launch
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UK startup begins offering Quantum Computing-as-a-Service
Oxford Quantum Circuits offers access to home-grown 4 qubit Sophia Quantum system
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Environmental group blocks Amazon's second $400m data center in Drogheda, Ireland
Work continues on the first one, while the second one is on hold
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Former MK Data Vault site put up for sale by CBRE
A data center first announced in 2012 never materialized, CBRE promoting site as a potential logistics site
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China's Nexperia to acquire UK's largest chip plant, Newport Wafer Fab
But it's still a tiny fab by international standards
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Officials rezone two plots of land in Naas, Ireland exclusively for data centers
Local council updates local area plan amid reported interest from a data center firm
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NHS IT manager sentenced to 5 years for paying self £800,000 through fake data center firm
Barry Stannard paid invoices from the NHS to data center and communications companies he was a director of, and never supplied any services in return
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District Council approves Amazon Web Services' Didcot, UK, data center
But locals worry it could be a beachhead for further data center developments
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Euronext CEO on post-Brexit UK data center exit: “Big decisions come with big consequences”
CEO Stephane Boujnah says company serves companies in the European Union and so needs to be based there
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OneWeb partners with BT to provide connectivity to rural UK
Two companies sign an MoU to ‘improve communication in hard to reach parts of UK’
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Green MSP says Scottish government should stop giving millions to AWS, following reports of Amazon e-commerce waste
Waste not, or we want you not
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Iron Mountain enters $178 million sale-leaseback deal of UK sites
Company selling facilities to fund growth areas such as data centers
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Apple seeks planning permission extension for Athenry data center, says will begin work as soon as possible
Plans for Irish data center in Derrydonnell revived after Apple had previously put the land up for sale