Dr Chris Ballance, co-founder and CEO of Oxford Ionics, explains how the company has developed and proven the building blocks of a high-performance, scalable quantum computer, and has also demonstrated that its quantum chips can be produced at scale in a standard semiconductor factory. Chris says that its chip provides over twice the performance of previous world records - achieved without using error correction – detailing why he believes that useful quantum computers are now within touching...
Read MoreIvana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy and AI Governance Officer at Wipro, also a Council of Europe adviser on AI and human rights, provides some fascinating insights into the EU AI Act, the UK’s upcoming AI Bill, as well as relevant US legislation, in terms of how much AI regulation is actually based on existing laws around privacy and non-discrimination and also about achieving the balance between AI innovation and AI ethics. Ultimately, AI is set to make a major, positive contribution to...
Read MoreDaniel Thorpe, Associate Director of Data Centre Research at JLL, explains the reasons behind the edge data centre market’s predicted doubling by 2026 – with data regulation, low latency demand and IoT growth the main drivers. Daniel also discusses the urgent need for the renewal of aging power infrastructure across Europe, and elsewhere, currently ill-equipped to handle the increased demand for both electrification and the digital infrastructure boom of which edge applications (many driven...
Read MorePatrick van der Wilt, Chief Commercial Officer, Penta Infra, describes the journey on which the company has embarked as a fast growing European provider of edge data centres. Currently, the company’s portfolio consists of 12 data centres, with plans to grow to 30+ over the next few years, identifying new opportunities to bring sustainable facilities to communities across an increasing range of locations.
Read MoreBrandon Lucia, a Carnegie Mellon professor who recently founded Efficient Computer, a company that is producing a general purpose chip said to be up to 100 times more energy-efficient than leading general-purpose CPUs, talks through the company’s reconfigurable dataflow processor architecture, explaining just how much of an impact he believes this innovation will have where AI and ML are used in IoT devices at the edge and, maybe overtime, in the data centre itself.
Read MoreKevin Brown, Senior Vice President, EcoStruxure Solutions, Secure Power Division, and Alison Matte, Sustainability Lead EcoStruxure IT, both at Schneider Electric, explain the introduction of new model based, automated sustainability reporting features within the company’s EcoStruxure IT DCIM software - discussing the importance of accurate performance metrics as data centres respond to the business imperatives of energy efficiency and performance optimisation as well as the march of...
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