Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters

AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database

London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up

If you're genuinely concerned about data centers' water consumption, do you also consider the water footprint of the food you eat?

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

Omowonuola Akintola wants Africa to build its geospatial future

Texas says data centers must pass an audit before connecting to the grid

NHS England admits its paperwork hid that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data

From individual achievement to partner impact

After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres

NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure

Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid

AI has changed data architecture, but storage hasn't caught up

Nigeria’s biggest tax reform turns business invoices into real-time economic data

Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims

Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035

The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger

Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.

New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium

Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street

Ireland's data centers consumed nearly as much electricity as every home in the country combined in 2025 - server farms gulped 23% of national power despite years of grid restrictions

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Rubrik pledges more than $500m for the UK and makes London its European base

Meta to build C$13 billion Alberta data centre, its first in Canada

NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits

Nigeria’s data centres face major test under CBN’s local hosting mandate

ORBIS

Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy

Ford’s Q2 US sales fell 10.3% as EV sales dropped 40.7% and an aluminium shortage hit F-Series trucks

BYD and Xiaomi shares surge after June delivery numbers show momentum holding

Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists

Before I needed it, no one told me that "legacy tape management" was an entire industry.

Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement

Inside Africa’s tech layoffs: What the data says (2023–2026)

Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges

Utah Data Center Brute Forced Through to Approval Despite Widespread Popular Opposition

[OC] I mapped AI exposure across China's 362 million workers using ILO data, and the biggest risk isn't where most people expect

UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts

NHS Palantir claims face scrutiny after data suggests uneven results

SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love

France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival

Aide dans mon travail

Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion

Found this interesting resource on Data Centers in the US. Shows tax incentives on the map too. Fairly neutral on positioning. Does anyone know what Beaumont and Sheridan is?

The wearable health boom is creating a data overload for doctors - what happens next

Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt

Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year

Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030