Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
Civo says it has secured five further sites in Lancashire, Greater Manchester, London, and Oxfordshire, which it expects to bring the total to 150 MW within three years. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); "For the past two years, we've surveyed 1,000 UK IT leaders about AI sovereignty," chief exec Mark Boost said at the firm's Civo Navigate event in London. "Last year, 61 percent said it was a strategic priority, and this year that's risen to 73 percent and that's really not a trend.
- ▪Civo says it has secured five further sites in Lancashire, Greater Manchester, London, and Oxfordshire, which it expects to bring the total to 150 MW within three years.
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- ▪"Last year, 61 percent said it was a strategic priority, and this year that's risen to 73 percent and that's really not a trend.
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