ICT news worldwide

An overview of news, trends and research in the ICT industry in all countries:

Europe

AI boom puts pressure on Europe’s data centre construction capacity The rapid growth of AI infrastructure across Europe is driving soaring demand for data centres, putting further pressure on an already tight market for construction workers.
22 September 2026
Middle East

Middle East leads on AI sovereignty but must close the compute gap, Accenture finds The Middle East has built an early lead in AI governance and sovereign cloud adoption, but the region must now push deeper into compute, models, and applications to turn that head start into lasting
16 September 2026
Europe

EU’s telecom rules overhaul could reshape regulation in Europe and beyond The European Commission’s proposed Digital Networks Act (DNA) is drawing scrutiny not only inside the European Union but also from regulators in other regions who may end up borrowing from its approa
11 September 2026
Middle East

Smart cities struggle to turn technology and data into results: FP analysis Despite billions of dollars in investment, many so-called smart cities are still failing to convert their technology into real improvements for residents, according to analysis from Four Principles.
27 August 2026
Saudi Arabia

The financing challenge behind Saudi Arabia’s data center boom Saudi Arabia is entering a major expansion phase for data centers, driven by AI, cloud and demand for local infrastructure.
14 August 2026
Netherlands

KPN partners with McKinsey to reinvent customer service through agentic AI KPN is transforming its customer service operations with digital agents that work seamlessly alongside human employees.
22 July 2026
Europe

‘Strategic procurement essential to successful data center builds’ In the race to meet surging data demand, data centers are being built across the globe at speed.
15 June 2026
United Kingdom

Hexploits supports swarmd with development of multi-agent orchestration platform When swarmd.ai set out to build a new multi-agent orchestration platform, the software company engaged Hexploits to help engineer the platform while effectively managing the risks at play. “swarmd.
10 June 2026
Europe

M&A in European IT and AI services market is entering its next phase Europe’s IT services market is moving beyond isolated AI pilots into a coordinated build-out of infrastructure, skills and vertical use cases.
04 June 2026
United Kingdom

Executives view quantum as a major disrupter after 2030 Almost nine-in-10 UK business leaders expect industry disruption from quantum computing by 2030, according to EY’s latest Quantum Business Readiness Report.
04 June 2026
Kuwait

Kuwait’s government signs $2.7 billion fixed telecom deal to power digital economy In a major move to advance its digital economy, Kuwait’s government has signed a $2.
03 June 2026
Middle East

Supercomputing a new frontier of national sovereignty and global competitiveness Experts warn that a growing ‘compute divide’ is redrawing the map of global competitiveness.
14 May 2026
Australia

Deloitte report outlines Australia as potential digital infrastructure leader Deloitte has argued that Australia is well placed to lead the Asia Pacific on digital infrastructure, an opportunity the firm calculates as being potentially worth $134 billion to the local economy.
04 April 2026
Middle East

High-density AI data centres test delivery models As AI reshapes global digital infrastructure, the Gulf is racing to build the high-density data centres needed to support it.
16 February 2026
Middle East

Dan Dimitriu (Detecon) on the next era of urban living: cognitive cities While much of today’s attention in urban living focuses on smart cities, the next frontier in intelligent urban design and liveability lies in cognitive cities.
10 February 2026
Middle East

AI adoption in the Gulf is rising faster than the region’s compute capacity Across industries, the Gulf’s AI ambitions hinge on securing hundreds of thousands of GPUs and building sovereign compute ecosystems.
26 January 2026
Europe

Why modern business leaders are prioritizing Sustainable IT As customers, employees, investors, and the public at large all increasingly demand more responsible digital practices, many organizations are reevaluating how their technology is funded, developed,
14 January 2026
Middle East

How the GCC can align its data centre expansion with its climate ambitions At the heart of the GCC’s unprecedented digital expansion are data centres.
05 January 2026
India

TH Global Capital serves as financial advisor to Ignitarium on sale to Neurealm Ignitarium, a semiconductor and embedded-systems engineering company from Bangalore, has been acquired by Neurealm, a US-headquartered global engineering and technology services firm.
02 December 2025
Saudi Arabia

Omnix supports Bayer’s Saudi business with workplace upgrade Bayer, a global life sciences company, has implemented Microsoft Teams Rooms within its Saudi business. The transition was supported by IT consultancy firm Omnix.
01 December 2025

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