The AI boom is transforming national energy planning, as hyperscalers prioritise power-rich locations for future data centre campuses. Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally changing the global data centre industry, with access to electricity replacing fibre connectivity as the most important factor determining where the next generation of data centres will be built. This is according…
Pavel Durov. Albert Gea/Reuters Russia’s has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and issued an international warrant for his arrest. The country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday that the charges related to Telegram’s failure to remove material “used by Ukrainian special services and by terrorist and extremist organisations to prepare…
Rennie Naidoo, Professor of Information Systems at the Wits School of Business Sciences. For the past two years, the conversation around AI has focused largely on software. We debate models, benchmarks, agents and the race between technology companies. The story is usually told as one of innovation. But another story is unfolding beneath the headlines….
Benoit Tessier/Reuters Municipal authorities in Cape Town have approved Equinix’s proposal to develop two data centres in the city, despite objections from activist groups over the project’s water use, electricity demand and environmental impact. The decision marks a significant step forward for the US-listed company and its planned development in the King Air Industria area,…
Representatives from Vodacom, UJ, the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology and AWS. Vodacom has partnered with the University of Johannesburg (UJ), in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to address SA’s growing demand for job-ready artificial intelligence (AI) and data science skills. The partnership, announced on Friday, brings together the mobile operator, academic institution…
Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada told analysts on Tuesday that the group could not have produced its half-year numbers without the Fifa World Cup, and that it is too early to call the MultiChoice turnaround a success. That is a more cautious tone than the results document published earlier in the day,…
Tecnotree Recognized in Two Gartner® Hype Cycle™ Reports for CSP Algorithmic Pricing Tecnotree, a global digital platform and services leader for AI, 5G, and cloud-native technologies, today announced that it has been recognized in the CSP Algorithmic Pricing use case in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies in the Communications Industry, 2026 report and…
Canal+ published 79 pages of results on Tuesday covering the six months to 30 June 2026. Nowhere in them is a figure for how many subscribers MultiChoice has. There is no DStv subscriber number, no split between Premium, Compact and Family, no average revenue per user for the South African business and no 90-day active…
AUTOBACS SEVEN Marks 10 Years of System Stability and Self-Funded Innovation with Rimini Street Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™ and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced that AUTOBACS SEVEN Co., Ltd. celebrates its 10-year partnership with Rimini Street, marking a decade…
Luno, the cryptocurrency exchange that started in South Africa and is now owned by US-based Digital Currency Group, is cutting 20% of its global headcount and reorganising the business into three separate units, CEO James Lanigan said on Tuesday. The company did not disclose how many employees are affected. The job cuts were first reported…
