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Server Revenue Hits $166.3bn in Q2 2026: What Rising ASPs Mean for UK Infrastructure Buyers
IDC puts Q2 2026 server vendor revenue at an all-time high of $166.3 billion, up 52 percent year on year,...
Only 4.4% Of Enterprise Storage Is Active: What The Cold Data Numbers Mean For Your Next Array
CTERA scanned 16 petabytes of live enterprise file data and found just 4.4% of capacity actively used, with 83.1% of...
MLPerf Inference v6.1: what 486 results tell buyers about inference cost per rack
MLPerf Inference v6.1 brought a record 30 submitters and 486 datacentre and edge results, the first peer reviewed Vera Rubin...
AWS Puts Outposts In One 42U Rack: What A 2,688 vCPU On-Premise Cloud Means For Space Constrained Sites
AWS has made second-generation single-rack Outposts generally available: compute, storage and networking in one 42U cabinet with up to 2,688...
UK Datacentre Funding Is Concentrating Fast: $3.7bn of $5.7bn Sits With One Operator
Tracxn figures put $3.7 billion of the $5.7 billion raised by UK datacentre infrastructure companies with Nscale alone, and 93...
The AI buildout's decommissioning bill: why power, cooling and network gear dominate the waste, not GPUs
A new Basel Action Network report models 395 to 617 million tonnes of AI-related electronic waste between 2025 and 2050,...
AMD's EPYC Venice white paper puts numbers on Zen 6, but read the compiler footnotes
AMD has published its first detailed benchmark white paper for EPYC Venice, claiming the 256-core flagship is 2.24x faster than...
Qualcomm and AWS Commit to Multi-Generation Inference Silicon: What Custom Accelerators Mean for Everyone Else's Buying Plans
Qualcomm and Amazon have agreed a multi-generation collaboration on custom AI inference silicon and optical connectivity up to 1.6T for...
