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An early Christmas present for Systems Integrators and their SaaS partners as a ten-year ERP centralisation contract lands
"Risks have also been identified in relation to data centre customer access to sites and facilities, and access by contractors or those providing supply chain services..."
Home Office CTO has highlighted a focus on “streamlining our technology and data estates and unifying systems” and “open source and cloud technologies that are scalable and maintainable.”
"National investment in compute capacity is a new economic imperative... countries are awakening to the need to invest in sovereign AI infrastructure" says Jensen Huang
The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.
Order also demands "strong new standards for biological synthesis screening" and follows UK concerns around
Report comes as nation states fret over risk, UK's PM says AI companies shouldn't "mark their own homework"
Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”