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AI pushes dense, decentralised & sustainable data centres

Tue, 10th Feb 2026
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AI-hungry workloads are forcing data centres to go high-density, pushing power, cooling and sustainability to the top of the IT agenda.
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How Data Quality in Retail Powers Business Outcomes in 2026

Tue, 10th Feb 2026
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In 2026, retailers win not by owning more data, but by orchestrating trusted, real-time data that powers every decision and experience.
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AI boom drives PC component shortages, price rises

Fri, 6th Feb 2026
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AI data centre investment is starving Europe's PC market of key components, driving sharp RAM and SSD price rises into 2026.
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Westcon-Comstor launches Tech Insights for EMEA partners

Thu, 5th Feb 2026
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Westcon-Comstor unveils free Tech Insights programme to help EMEA partners assess cyber risk and AI data readiness for customers.
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Financial firms struggle to scale AI despite strong returns

Thu, 5th Feb 2026
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Financial firms see strong AI returns but Riverbed survey shows most projects stall in pilots, held back by data quality and tool sprawl.
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Snowflake, OpenAI sign USD $200m AI deal & add tools

Wed, 4th Feb 2026
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Snowflake unveils AI coding and semantic tools and inks a multi-year OpenAI partnership worth USD $200m to power its Cortex AI platform.
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Vaisala's Origo aims to slash data centre cooling waste

Wed, 4th Feb 2026
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Vaisala unveils Origo sensor platform to curb data centre overcooling, targeting ±0.1°C accuracy and potential USD $8 billion in savings.
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Snowflake unveils Postgres to make enterprise data AI-ready

Wed, 4th Feb 2026
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Snowflake launches Postgres and new governance, sharing and backup tools to keep enterprise data ready for production AI workloads.
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LFB rebrands data centre cooling arm as Apx in Europe

Fri, 30th Jan 2026
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LFB Group rebrands its data centre cooling arm as Apx, targeting AI-driven demand, higher rack densities and co-engineered cooling solutions.
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LG hits record 2025 sales as tariffs & EV slowdown bite

Fri, 30th Jan 2026
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LG posts record 2025 revenue of AUD 88.6 trillion but operating profit slips on U.S. tariffs, EV slowdown and one-off restructuring costs.
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AI reshapes data privacy as firms shift to real-time defence

Thu, 29th Jan 2026
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AI-driven cloud adoption is forcing firms to swap static privacy checklists for continuous, real-time defence of sensitive data flows.
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Snowflake unveils AI Data Cloud 'Energy Solutions'

Wed, 28th Jan 2026
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Snowflake launches Energy Solutions for its AI Data Cloud, unifying energy sector data to modernise grid planning and asset management.
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Integrated Quantum unveils quantum-resilient AI data layer

Sat, 24th Jan 2026
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Integrated Quantum debuts AIQu VEIL, a quantum-resilient data layer letting enterprises run global AI on anonymised vectors, not raw data.
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Global Switch signs Welsh wind power deal for AI hub

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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Global Switch inks eight-year Welsh wind PPA with RWE to power its London Docklands AI data hub with around 70 GWh of renewables a year.
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Global Switch signs RWE wind PPA for AI data centre

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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Global Switch inks eight-year RWE wind PPA to power its AI-focused London Docklands data centre with Welsh onshore renewable electricity.
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Snowflake, TVS Next tie up on NexOps for manufacturers

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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Snowflake and TVS Next partner to run NexOps on Snowflake's AI Data Cloud, unifying plant and enterprise data for manufacturers.
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Motivair unveils 2.5MW liquid cooling unit for AI data

Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
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Schneider launches 2.5MW coolant unit for liquid-cooled AI data centres, scaling to 10MW+ to match next-gen GPU and AI factory demands.
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Gartner: half of firms adopt zero-trust data by 2028

Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
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risk & compliance
Gartner predicts half of organisations will adopt zero-trust data governance by 2028 as synthetic AI content undermines traditional data trust.
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VDURA index tracks volatile SSD pricing & AI impact

Wed, 21st Jan 2026
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VDURA launches index and modelling tool as AI-fuelled SSD volatility drives 189% flash cost surge and widens gap with hard drives.
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Fluke unveils CertiFibre Max for dense AI data centres

Wed, 21st Jan 2026
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Fluke Networks launches CertiFibre Max test set to speed high-density fibre certification in AI-driven data centres and cloud networks.