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The Ultimate Guide to AI Infrastructure

A curated UK edition of IndustrialDay 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

Regional stories with direct local relevance

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Research and market analysis connected to AI Infrastructure

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Interviews

Interviews and video coverage from the network

Recent AI Infrastructure News

Dell expands AI Factory to push agentic AI on-site
Managed Services

Dell expands AI Factory to push agentic AI on-site

Adoption has climbed to more than 6,500 customers as businesses shift from AI pilots to on-premise production and weigh rising costs.

Today

VAST & Nvidia launch AI agent sandbox for enterprises
Data management

VAST & Nvidia launch AI agent sandbox for enterprises

It aims to help enterprises run thousands of short-lived AI agents securely while keeping their state, costs and decisions auditable after shutdown.

Today

Dell expands AI Factory with NVIDIA for enterprise use
Higher education

Dell expands AI Factory with NVIDIA for enterprise use

More than 6,500 enterprises are now using the platform as Dell adds software, deskside systems and servers to help move AI from pilot to production.

Today

Equinix opens Sydney centre for liquid-cooled AI tests
CPU

Equinix opens Sydney centre for liquid-cooled AI tests

Enterprises can now test liquid-cooled AI systems in Sydney before committing to costly rollouts, as power and heat demands surge.

Today

Nutanix expands AI ties with NVIDIA, Supermicro & Netris
Virtualisation

Nutanix expands AI ties with NVIDIA, Supermicro & Netris

The tie-ups are aimed at making it easier for enterprises and cloud providers to run agentic AI in production across mixed infrastructure.

Today

Equinix launches global liquid cooling test centres
CPU

Equinix launches global liquid cooling test centres

Enterprises racing to deploy AI systems can now test liquid cooling in live data centres before committing to large-scale infrastructure changes.

Today

PyTorch Foundation adds nine members, including Shopify
Machine learning

PyTorch Foundation adds nine members, including Shopify

The expansion signals deeper industry backing for open source AI as three new platinum members join the foundation's ecosystem.

Today

Five Nines Global & Nexus Core plan Casablanca AI centre
Renewable energy

Five Nines Global & Nexus Core plan Casablanca AI centre

The initial 20MW site near Casablanca will anchor a much larger 180MW AI campus built around Nvidia's latest server architecture.

Yesterday

CHINT unveils factory-built Power Pod for Asia data centres
Energy efficient

CHINT unveils factory-built Power Pod for Asia data centres

Data centre developers in Asia-Pacific could cut installation times by up to 60% as CHINT's factory-built power pod targets AI-driven demand.

Last week

Bull opens Angers factory to boost supercomputer output
Energy efficient

Bull opens Angers factory to boost supercomputer output

The upgraded site will double production capacity and cut maintenance costs by 30% as Europe races to secure more sovereign computing power.

Last week

NVIDIA deepens Nordic AI bets with startups & partners
Spotify

NVIDIA deepens Nordic AI bets with startups & partners

Regional AI infrastructure is set to surge, with cloud providers on course to deploy 1 gigawatt of capacity by the end of 2027.

Last week

CScale raises USD $145 million to tackle AI optics
Semiconductors

CScale raises USD $145 million to tackle AI optics

The funding backs efforts to reduce downtime in large AI systems as optical links become a critical bottleneck across data centres.

Last week

Microsoft unveils Maia 300 for 2027 AI deployments
Ethernet

Microsoft unveils Maia 300 for 2027 AI deployments

The new chip is meant to lift Microsoft's AI services, with Maia 300 set for production deployments in 2027 and wider roll-out plans from then.

Last week

Trane launches LiquidStack CDU 2.X for AI data centres
Power Quality

Trane launches LiquidStack CDU 2.X for AI data centres

Operators can now pre-order a cooling unit that aims to reduce redesigns as GPU roadmaps shift and rack densities for AI servers keep rising.

Last week

Acalvio launches ShadowPlex AI Agent in Gemini marketplace
Cloud marketplace

Acalvio launches ShadowPlex AI Agent in Gemini marketplace

Security teams can now generate deception playbooks in minutes, as AI-assisted attacks and enterprise AI systems raise the stakes for defenders.

Last week

Submer launches Corenix modular data centre unit for AI
Modular data centre

Submer launches Corenix modular data centre unit for AI

The new venture aims to speed up AI infrastructure builds by factory-testing modular systems before they are shipped to customer sites.

This month

Google flexible VMs aim to keep Spark jobs running
Storage

Google flexible VMs aim to keep Spark jobs running

The change could reduce failed cluster setups as AI demand tightens compute supply and Spark users lose access to preferred machine families.

This month

Aiven launches Runtime & DataHub for production AI
Data infrastructure

Aiven launches Runtime & DataHub for production AI

The services aim to help firms run AI agents on live company data without moving it outside customer environments, as production use becomes a priority.

This month

Powernexu launches 3200W CRPS supply for AI servers
IT Department

Powernexu launches 3200W CRPS supply for AI servers

The higher-output unit reflects growing pressure on AI server designers to manage heat, current and redundancy as power demands rise.

This month

AMD details latest local AI capabilities in Ryzen AI Max PCs
IT Industry

AMD details latest local AI capabilities in Ryzen AI Max PCs

The update lets Windows users run bigger AI models on-device, as AMD bids to make local processing a rival to cloud-based services.

This month

Job Moves