Building your first UK on-prem AI cluster: step-by-step
Cloud AI training is convenient but at sustained scale (multi-week training runs, hundreds of GPUs), on-prem becomes meaningfully cheaper. UK enterpri…
AI server cooling 2026: air vs liquid vs immersion
NVIDIA H100 SXM was the last GPU generation comfortably air-cooled at rack density. H200, B100, B200, and GB200 NVL72 push thermal density beyond what…
Dell PowerEdge XE9680, XE8640 and XE7745: choosing a Dell AI / GPU server in 2026 (UK)
Dell's PowerEdge XE line is its purpose-built AI and GPU range, and choosing within it is really a question about your workload, not your budget. An e…
The EU AI Act: UK impact analysis for IT teams
The EU AI Act entered force August 2024 with phased application through 2027. UK organisations deploying AI in EU markets, AI vendors serving EU custo…
Arista vs Cisco vs Juniper for 800G AI fabric (2026): UK data centre networking buyer's guide
AI training clusters and large-language-model inference workloads have pushed data centre networking into 800G as the new default. Arista 7060X6, Cisc…
Ultra Ethernet vs UALink vs InfiniBand: the AI interconnect standards to watch
When you build an AI cluster, the network between the GPUs matters almost as much as the GPUs themselves - a fast accelerator starved of interconnect …
Liquid vs immersion cooling and RoCE: decoding AI data-centre terms (UK)
Two clusters of jargon dominate any AI data-centre conversation: how the heat gets out, and how the network stays lossless. Air, direct liquid and imm…
NVIDIA H200 vs H100 vs B100 vs B200: UK AI GPU buyer's guide 2026
NVIDIA H100, H200, B100, B200, and GB200 NVL72 are the GPUs UK enterprise AI buyers shortlist in 2026. H100 + H200 (Hopper architecture) are mainstrea…
SXM vs PCIe GPUs and what EDSFF means: AI hardware form factors explained (UK)
AI hardware comes wrapped in form-factor jargon that hides real engineering trade-offs. Should a GPU be SXM or PCIe? What is EDSFF and why are flash d…