UK's HMRC has spent £3.8 billion with tech suppliers since 2020
On top of £10 billion project aimed to finish in 2017
News - UK & Ireland (EN)
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Red Admiral to build 250MW data center in Westmeath, Ireland
Lumcloon Energy subsidiary will build the first energy-independent data center in the country
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UK Business secretary asked to refer Vodafone to Covid corruption commissioner
Report emerges amid recent franchisee lawsuit
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Lyca Group outlines restructuring strategy, will enter new markets soon
But confirms jobs will be lost in the UK
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Queen Mary University of London uses data center waste heat to warm buildings
Launches system to convert heat to water for district heating
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Castleforge and Galaxy DC acquire data center site outside London, UK
Companies take over former Digital Realty site
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GlobalFoundries and Quantum Motion partner on development of quantum processors
Claims chips are 100x faster than “current state of the art” offerings
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Global Switch confirms search for London campus co-investor
Company wants capital partner for Docklands site
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Vantage reveals plans for 10-building campus at former Ford car factory in Bridgend, Wales
Company unveils plans for site it bought last year
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UK retailer Asda delayed planned IT systems upgrade
December 2024 IT system shift did not go ahead
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Chinese owners seek buyer for British chip firm Imagination Technologies – report
The Chinese-government backed parent company has been accused of asset stripping and IP transfer during its time as owners
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Plans for data center on Green Belt land in Essex, UK, scaled back
New application on the way for Basildon site
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Equinix to acquire BT Group's Irish data center business
The transaction is expected to be completed in H1 2025
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BT wins £1.3bn class action lawsuit that alleged it overcharged millions of customers
But an appeal may still come
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TalkTalk to cut hundreds of jobs in bid to save £120m - report
The company informed investors of the plans last week
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UK Crown Commercial Service increased cloud hosting deal with AWS by 89% mid-contract
Questions raised about why the department didn't re-tender
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Subsea power cable connecting UK and Ireland exchanges power for the first time
The cable has a nominal capacity of 500MW
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National Grid unveils £35bn plan to upgrade UK's transmission infrastructure
The plan projects data centers to become the biggest driver of new demand connections
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UK gov't clears Bharti's acquisition of 24.5% BT stake
A BT investor filing last month confirmed Bharti was poised to snap up the stake
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Castrol launches new direct-to-chip cooling fluid
The new fluid is designed to address the high thermal demands of AI and high-performance computing data centers
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Last Energy receives financing offer from US Government export finance bank to support UK deployment
The company is planning to build four 20MW microreactors at its site in Bridgend, southern Wales
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23.5m tall data centers proposed at UK's Wycombe Film Studios
Details emerge about data center campus proposal
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DESNZ: Grid connection reform required to support deployment of data centers in UK
DESNZ report outlines the steps needed to achieve a clean power system by 2030
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Lycamobile warns staff it could cut 90% of jobs - report
More than 300 jobs could be lost
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Vodafone UK franchisees launch £120m lawsuit against the telco over commission cuts
Many have had to leave the program altogether
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Opposition to gas-powered data center planned for Drogheda, Ireland
Will hit sustainability efforts, campaigners warn
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Nexalus brings liquid cooling technology to HPE servers
System can capture waste heat so it can be reused
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Ori Industries to deploy Nvidia H200 GPUs in UK data center
First company in the UK to do so