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Get a Good Return on Your AI Investments

Last week, we had our first Infrastructure & Ops superstream of 2026, Platform Engineering in the Age of AI. Our speakers explored a range of topics focused on supporting new AI workloads, each with unique infrastructure needs, unpredictable costs, and novel security concerns. Google Cloud’s Abdel Sghiouar took the audience through what a good platform

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Missing money, shipped chips and a 350,000% profit: key takeaways on AI ‘phantom investments’

A Guardian investigation has put the UK government’s AI plans under the microscope. Here are the key details Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’The Essex ‘supercomputer’ that’s still a scaffolding yardA Guardian investigation has examined a series of massive AI investments announced by the government over the past two years, comparing

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Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’

Exclusive: Rented datacentres and ‘supercomputer’ site that’s still a scaffolding yard raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’From press release … to scrap metal site: the Essex supercomputer that’s still a scaffolding yardA multibillion-pound drive to “mainline AI into the veins” of the British economy is riddled with “phantom investments”

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