The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure
A curated UK edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for AI Infrastructure.
What to know about AI Infrastructure
AI Infrastructure explores the hardware, software, and systems that make modern artificial intelligence possible. This tag covers everything from compute and storage architectures to networking, data pipelines, and observability stacks that keep AI workloads reliable and efficient.
Stories here dig into practical questions: how to design scalable training and inference clusters, choose between GPUs and emerging accelerators, manage feature stores, and orchestrate distributed workloads. You’ll find discussions of MLOps practices, cost optimization, performance tuning, and the trade-offs behind different infrastructure patterns.
Whether you’re building a new AI platform or evolving an existing stack, this tag helps you understand the components, constraints, and design decisions that sit underneath AI products. Reading these pieces will give you concrete examples, architectural patterns, and lessons learned that you can apply to your own systems.
UK AI Infrastructure News
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Leaseweb launches UK channel programme & names Goody
UK partners gain a three-tier route to Leaseweb services as the cloud provider steps up support for hybrid and AI workloads.
Deliverance AI launches with GBP £6m annual revenue
Growing demand for governed AI in regulated sectors has helped the London-based start-up secure six enterprise customers in three months.
Poindexter Labs raises GBP £2 million seed funding
The London-based AI data start-up has won support as demand grows for specialist training datasets for reasoning-heavy models.
ILI Group seeks approval for GBP £5bn Fife data centre
The 600MW scheme could bring hundreds of jobs to Fife and secure the first step in ILI Group's GBP £15 billion Scottish data centre plan.
OpenUK unveils speakers for Edinburgh open source AI event
The conference will put Scotland's AI talent, security and infrastructure under the spotlight as debate over governance and control intensifies.
Submer launches Rubix Data Centres for AI campuses
Backed by more than 8GW of powered land, the new unit targets scarce AI campus capacity as demand for power and grid access intensifies.
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Gravitee launches Gamma as UK AI agents top 713,130
British firms now use 713,130 AI agents, sharpening pressure for tighter oversight as Gravitee rolls out Gamma to govern them.
Altnets warns AI boom is straining connectivity networks
Connectivity could become the bottleneck as AI-driven data centres and mobile traffic push fibre networks and power demand to new limits.
Verne drops Global as it sharpens AI data centre focus
The rebrand is aimed at winning more AI customers as data centre operators race to prove they can handle denser, power-hungry workloads.
Submer, Hammer partner to expand UK AI liquid cooling
Submer teams with Hammer to offer UK and European resellers local access to AI-focused liquid cooling as dense data centre demand surges.
Leaseweb brings NVIDIA L4 GPUs to UK sovereign cloud
Leaseweb has added NVIDIA L4 GPUs to its UK sovereign public cloud, offering pay-per-use AI capacity it claims undercuts hyperscalers.
Workspace 365 partners with Aries Global for growth boost
Workspace 365 has teamed up with Aries Global to accelerate its growth in the thriving $50 billion cloud market, enhancing its global reach and innovation.
Ansys, Cognata & Microsoft join forces on ADAS testing
Ansys has teamed up with Cognata and Microsoft to launch the Automated Driving Perception Hub on Azure, enhancing sensor testing for automotive ADAS and AV systems.
AQ Compute's AI-ready data centre launches in Norway
AQ Compute's first AI-ready colocation data centre is now operational in Hnefoss, Norway, driving decarbonisation in the IT sector.
Starmer opens London Tech Week with AI investment push
New compute funding and billions in private pledges are set to widen access to AI tools, sharpening Britain's bid for investment and growth.
AI board priority rises as legacy systems slow scale
Legacy systems are slowing AI roll-outs at large firms, with most executives saying modernisation and governance are now the main bottlenecks.
NTT Data & Google Cloud expand Gemini Enterprise push
The tie-up seeks to help firms turn AI pilots into live systems, with 5,000 experts trained and hundreds of agents planned.
Supabase raises USD $500 million in Series F round
The fresh cash lifts Supabase's valuation to USD $10.5 billion as AI-driven demand for its database platform continues to surge.
European data centres join EU energy planning push
Grid operators and energy groups will help shape data centre expansion as Europe braces for a surge in AI-linked power demand.
Vista launches Vector Core Compute for AI inference
The new inference cloud is aimed at cutting latency and costs for enterprise AI, with a Los Angeles site live and Together.ai first to use it.
Computex spotlights AI robots as startup turnout grows
A new robotics zone and a 11% rise in startups showed AI hardware and commercial deployment are now driving the Taipei trade fair.
Agentic AI Foundation adds agentgateway as hosted project
The addition gives companies a shared layer for securing and routing AI traffic as agentic systems move into production.
PEAK:AIO & Los Alamos launch Lattice for AI storage
The open-source system is designed to ease storage bottlenecks that can leave costly GPUs underused in AI and high-performance computing clusters.
NetApp and Cisco expand FlexPod with enterprise AI systems
Enterprises could cut integration work and security risk as pre-tested FlexPod systems are aimed at production AI deployments and edge use cases.
CIQ expands Fuzzball to span five clouds & on-prem
The update lets AI and HPC teams move workloads across five clouds and on-premises, cutting duplication and simplifying GPU access.
Microsoft unveils AI agents, models & security tools
Developers and enterprise customers will get more AI controls as Microsoft adds agents, in-house models and security tools across its software stack.