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Project Mercury Unveils Plans for the UK’s First Homegrown Sovereign LLMs

James Drayson, Co-Founder & CEO of Locai Labs and Mark Boost, Founder and CEO of Civo, explains how Locai Labs, the UK’s sovereign AI company, and Civo, the British sovereign cloud provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake Project Mercury - a programme to build the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign large language models (LLMs), With the aim of empowering UK enterprises and government with secure, home-grown frontier models designed to drive innovation and accelerate Britain’s AI independence.

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Project Mercury Aims to Deliver Britain’s First Sovereign Pre-Trained AI Models

James Drayson, Co-Founder & CEO of Locai Labs and Mark Boost, Founder and CEO of Civo, explains how Locai Labs, the UK’s sovereign AI company, and Civo, the British sovereign cloud provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake Project Mercury - a programme to build the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign large language models (LLMs), With the aim of empowering UK enterprises and government with secure, home-grown frontier models designed to drive innovation and accelerate Britain’s AI independence.

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Project Mercury promises the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign LLMs

James Drayson, Co-Founder & CEO of Locai Labs and Mark Boost, Founder and CEO of Civo, explains how Locai Labs, the UK’s sovereign AI company, and Civo, the British sovereign cloud provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake Project Mercury - a programme to build the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign large language models (LLMs), With the aim of empowering UK enterprises and government with secure, home-grown frontier models designed to drive innovation and accelerate Britain’s AI independence.

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Water, not power, the deciding factor for data centre location?

Bill Tesarek, President of Alsay, explains that, as Texas accelerates its position as a hub for AI infrastructure, a less visible constraint is beginning to surface: water availability may become the limiting factor for future growth. While most attention remains on power and grid capacity, operators inside water infrastructure systems are seeing early signals that demand tied to AI is scaling faster than the systems designed to support it.

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Data centre market at the beginning of a new infrastructure cycle

Jake Bush, RLB Head of Supply Chain and Procurement, discusses the findings of the company’s latest data centre trends report, which finds the industry at the beginning of a new infrastructure cycle after a year of recalibration, but success will be determined less by demand and more by the ability to deliver at scale. Jake explains that the future of Europe’s data centre expansion is not dependent on demand, but whether there is the ability to deliver, with structural challenges to the next wave of digital infrastructure including limited access to power, permitting delays and renewed pressure on materials, equipment and specialist labour. 

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Getting to grips with gigawatt facilities and constrained grid capacity

Brad Johnson, Director, Industry Executive for Electric Utilities at Bentley Systems, explains how smart data centre developers are already recognising that real engineering value lives beyond the fence line. Siting decisions, grid interconnection, renewable energy access, road networks, water supply, and substation constraints determine whether a billion-dollar investment performs or fails. Communities hold equal power in that equation - projects are stalling because developers skipped the social license conversation. Happily, as Brad highlights, the engineering intelligence to get this right already exists - the industry needs to use it.

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Navigating virtualisation change through AI, sovereignty and modernisation
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Marketing and Operations Director at Hyve Managed Hosting, Charlotte Webb shares her perspective on the forces reshaping the infrastructure market, from VMware migrations and rising costs to data sovereignty and AI-driven modernisation. She discusses how MSPs are evolving from infrastructure providers into strategic transformation partners, helping customers build resilient, future-ready IT environments.

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Securing the expanding attack surface through visibility and IT OT convergence

Olly Carter, Senior Channel Sales Director at Forescout, discusses how asset sprawl, IT OT IoT convergence and AI-driven threats are reshaping enterprise security priorities. He also explores why real-time asset intelligence and partner-led strategies are becoming critical to delivering measurable security outcomes.

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There’s no such thing as an off-the-shelf AI agent

Dom Selvon, Chief Technology Officer, at Valliance, an AI consultancy, argues that, with boards and leadership teams under pressure to deploy AI quickly, many organisations are investing in agents that aren’t aligned with how their business actually works. Dom explains that, when it comes to deploying agentic AI, what truly matters is the enterprise intelligence stack underneath agents and agentic platforms – how an organisation defines truth, makes decisions, and governs risk - ontologies which govern agents will be the next stage of unlocking AI’s potential for businesses.

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