Enterprise
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The Foreign Office’s digital systems face crisis
Heavy demand for consular services is testing the Foreign Office’s technology while AI moves further into internal policy work.
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Compact nuclear power joins the datacentre queue
A British engineering startup has raised £15 million for a compact nuclear system aimed partly at power-constrained computing sites.
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Police vetting expands across the open web
The Metropolitan Police is moving more personnel screening into an automated system that can search and connect online information.
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AI use is outrunning workplace training
Skills England has found that everyday AI use is spreading faster than structured learning, oversight, and role-specific guidance.
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Vodafone grows while Europe loses 1,200 roles
Vodafone’s European revenue is rising as integration, centralisation, and network consolidation remove more roles from the group.
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Inside Orange’s €3bn datacentre expansion plan
Orange and Morrison plan to turn an existing French telecoms estate into a 400MW computing platform for cloud and AI customers.
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Understanding the environmental footprint of AI
AI’s environmental footprint is becoming a serious business infrastructure issue. Saskia van Gendt, Chief Sustainability Officer at Blue Yonder, examines how energy, water, and carbon impacts can be managed through cleaner infrastructure and more disciplined AI deployment.
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When the login becomes the barrier
Digital government still fails when citizens cannot complete the journey.
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Full fibre reaches the adoption test
Openreach’s fibre programme is entering its harder commercial phase now.
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Fujitsu’s framework place tests procurement restraint
Fujitsu’s framework place tests the boundaries of procurement restraint again.











