Insights and Articles
To Infinity and Beyond? Or Just Very Expensive Thinking
The idea arrives, as these things often do, dressed up as destiny. AI is gobbling power at a rate that makes even the most ambitious data centre plans look like a child’s Lego project. The grid is groaning, planners are dithering, and locals would rather not have...
The AI Paradox
On productivity, trust, and the physical limits behind the AI boom Writing used to be thinking. Sitting in front of a blank sheet of paper (or later a screen) and waiting for something to happen (or, in my case, to not happen). For a long, long...
AI Is Scaling Faster Than Its Value
There is a certain inevitability about how businesses adopt new technology. First comes the excitement. Then the overconfidence. Then, usually, the incident. Artificial intelligence is no exception. In fact, it may be the fastest we’ve ever gone...
The Atlantic Just Gave Up a Forgotten Backbone of the Digital World
I read a really good article a few days ago about the collapse of an old cable system. It made me smile for some reason because it described the retrieval of thousands of kilometres of spent cable from the ocean floor in dull, mechanical terms. There...
Why Light, Not Electricity, Will Power the Next Data Centre
By Peter Zanatta For most of its working life, the data centre ran on a simple idea, move data as electricity through copper and don’t overthink it. And to be fair, that idea worked astonishingly well. For decades. But that era is...
Underclass Redefined – Charles Murray in the 21st Century. By Kate Stapleton
I was happily reminiscing about my days as a Loughborough University undergraduate when I came across the idea for this article. Back in 2008, I was in my mid to late twenties and determined to get to University – something my own personal circumstances had...
Cyber Essentials 2026: What the Updates Mean for Organisations. By Peter Zanatta
Cybersecurity rarely grabs attention until something goes wrong, but then it does, think M&S. Yet, quietly, it has become a baseline expectation for any organisation operating within modern supply chains. IASME’s preview of the Cyber...
Reflections from the NTI Open House at KAUST. By Peter Zanatta
I was thinking the other day that most research events feel like polite tours of work-in-progress, clever ideas, guarded language, and the sense that the real action happens somewhere out of sight. The NTI Open House at KAUST, which I attended the other...
Robots For Domestic Roles – Holy Grail or Horrifying Mistake? By Kate Stapleton
I was crying with laughter the other day. My stepdad Dave (becoming a regular feature in my articles) showed me a clip from “Have I Got News For You” of their segment on humanoids attempting to cook and clean. The hapless robot, frying pan in hand, slid the contents...
AI scheduling – indispensable assistant or a waste of time? By Kate Stapleton
My stepfather, Dave, is a seventy three year old forensic scientist turned IT security expert. He retired at the age of sixty five after an illustrious career culminating in banking systems security, witnessing the birth of mainstream...
From Data to Decisions: How Market Intelligence Can Accelerate Enterprise Growth. By Peter Zanatta
Somewhere in a glass-walled office, a CEO is staring at a dashboard that looks more like a fighter jet display than a business tool. Every dial glows, every graph wiggles, and the KPI lights are mostly green. Yet no one in the boardroom can quite explain why...
The Empathy Gap. By Kate Stapleton
I was a child in the Eighties, a mere whippersnapper. Yuppies and the rise of the mobile phone as the ultimate in technology passed me by, I was too busy climbing trees to care. Too busy fishing out frogspawn, clumped like living, breathing boba, out of the lake...
The Data Centre World Awards 2026. By Peter Zanatta
I’m honoured to be part of the judging panel for the Data Centre World Awards 2026! These awards are a great opportunity to celebrate the innovation and leadership that continue to drive the industry forward. I’m excited to see this...
Celebrating Success (and Old Friends) at the Global Connectivity Awards 2025. By Peter Zanatta
What a fantastic night at the GCA Awards 2025 at the O2 Arena in London! Great not only to celebrate all the industry winners, but also to reconnect with old friends, and a special shout-out to Carl Roberts, who somehow manages to look effortlessly sharp...