An attempt to spin up my own Whisper transcription server resulted in an afternoon of sold-out zones and vanishing GPUs – a worm's-eye view of the shortage the industry talks about
Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intellect’ – holds the key to why.
The danger is not a conscious machine, but a dazzling prediction engine that moves faster than we can supervise. The real risk is that we hand over the controls too easily
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler.
Everpure CTO Patrick Smith argues data sovereignty demands selective control, balancing strict workload rules with global cloud speed rather than an all-or-nothing lockdown.
UHCW added daily theatre capacity and got correct utilisation data using Proximie’s AI as part of what partners describe as the NHS’s largest surgical AI deployment.
Barbour ABI data show UK’s datacentre pipeline has grown to 173 projects and more than 14GW of capacity, driven by AI demand and large sites in Scotland and the North East
Computer Weekly datacentre and cloud editor – and data journalist – Antony Adshead traces his tech evolution from green-screen mainframes and DIY coding to steering agentic AI
Mapping NHS DNS data reveals a heavy reliance on US hyperscalers, with Microsoft 365 routing email and infrastructure for the vast majority of trusts in a tangled web of connections
We talked to 10 storage vendors and a lawyer and found unanimity in that data residency is not enough – and that control, jurisdiction and architecture will define the next 18 months
Scotland forces councils to flag 50MW-plus datacentre bids to ministers within seven days, as mooted gigawatt campuses prove to be vapour or stall on grid connections
