Verne and Nscale Announce 15MW AI Infrastructure Deployment to Accelerate Sustainable AI Infrastructure Growth in the Nordics Nscale selects Verne for major liquid-cooled GPU deployment to expand Europe’s AI capacity
Basketball England pauses CEO search amid fallout from BBF liquidation Sport Business The aftershocks of the British Basketball Federation’s slide into liquidation continue to be felt across the game, with Basketball England forced to suspend its appointment of a new CEO. The English governing body, whose main roles are increasing participation and talent identification, is set to take on many of the BBF’s functions following its demise [...]
Options Selects atNorth Data Center for Private AI Solution Options Technology (Options), the leading provider of capital markets infrastructure, today announced a partnership with atNorth, the leading Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit datacenter provider, to host its expanded private AI solution, at atNorth’s ICE02 data center in Iceland. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251118956675/en/ Options infrastructure expansion results from [...]
World Leading Adventure Photographer John Balsdon Heads to Australia After Bringing Down the Final Curtain on His Latest London Exhibition November 17, 2025 Former lawyer turned adventure photographer John Balsdon has brought his London exhibition “Always Look Twice” at Snow Peak London to a close, marking another milestone in an extraordinary journey from the world of law to photographic art. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251117978596/en/ The exhibition showcased Balsdon’s distinctive approach to [...]
Adair Turner: Crypto? It’s like buying tulips in 1635 November 7, 2025 As chair of the FSA at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, Adair Turner knows all about the anatomy of a global crash. Over 15 years on, exuberance in AI and opaque private credit markets have set warning systems flashing. Ali Lyon, spoke to the arch-technocrat to see whether the fears are justified, and [...]
Supermarkets call on Chancellor to ‘bring inflation to heel’ October 27, 2025 Britain’s largest supermarkets have called on Rachel Reeves to exclude all shops from upcoming changes to to business rates, warning that any hikes to their input costs would further stoke food inflation that is already at over double the Bank of England’s target. In an open letter to the Chancellor, bosses from the UK’s nine [...]
Farmfoods: Iceland rival battles rising costs September 30, 2025 Budget supermarket chain Farmfoods has said rising costs weighed on its profit as it battled to keep prices down for its customers. The business, which is headquartered in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, has posted a pre-tax profit of £33.1m for 2024, up from the £25.5m it achieved in 2023. However, Farmfoods said “increased cost pressures” resulted [...]
Amazon Fresh to close all UK stores September 23, 2025 Amazon is set to close all 19 of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, just four years after launching its first supermarket outlet in London. It has been revealed that the tech giant plans to convert up to five of these locations into Whole Foods Market stores, a US organic food chain it acquired [...]
Iceland in the red as Rachel Reeves’ tax raid forces prices higher August 8, 2025 Iceland has warned it is being forced to increases prices because of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ tax raids as the supermarket chain fell into the red. The Flintshire-headquartered said that while it is “doing our utmost” to offset increasing costs arising from last year’s Autumn Budget, it will “inevitably have to pass some of these on [...]
OBR warns unfunded spending to damage UK finances amid ‘daunting’ risks July 8, 2025 The UK economy is set for a “daunting” year as the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has warned unfunded spending commitments and global trade tensions are likely to damage public finances. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is facing pressure to assuage Labour backbenchers by not cutting welfare spending while also upholding a pledge not to raise tax [...]