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Qualcomm bets on rack-scale inference
New AI200/250 and 160 kW racks challenge Nvidia for enterprise inference.

UK fast-tracks data centre builds
NSIP route could shorten planning for big UK DC projects.

Cisco+Pure ship AI CVD
Validated design lowers lift from pilot to production.

— Playbook Drop: Pilot to production in 30 days
— Benchmark: UK DC capex heading to £10bn
— Tool in Focus: Showdown: Shadowserver HTTP exposure check
— Field Intel: Make the story carry the demo

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Qualcomm enters rack-scale inference.
New AI200/AI250 accelerators plus liquid-cooled 160 kW racks; first customer HUMAIN signs for 200 MW from 2026. Watch software maturity and Ethernet scale-out.
Action. Add AI200/AI250 to eval matrix. Ask for PyTorch/ONNX demos and multi-node scaling data.
🔗 Tom's Hardware →

UK puts data centres on the NSIP path.
Draft regs laid before Parliament to allow directing DC projects into the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects regime. Shorter, centralised consenting for big builds.
Action. For UK on-prem/colo programmes, update delivery timelines and add NSIP as a dependency in SoWs.
🔗 TechUK →

Pure + Cisco ship “AI Factory” CVD.
New FlashStack CVD aligned to Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA. Packaged path from pilot to production. 28 Oct.
Action. Pull the CVD. Map to your reference architecture and success criteria before PoC.
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30-day Pilot to Production
Goal. Prove one AI use case on real data, then hand it over with scale notes.
Success. Latency ≤ X ms, throughput ≥ Y req/s, recovery < Z mins. PII masked. RBAC and audit on.
People. SE lead, customer owner, platform SME, security.

Days 1–3 | Fit check
Pick the stack. Confirm model size, GPU memory, network, storage, power, cooling.
Agree the test dataset. Start a simple risk log.
Days 4–10 | Demo on data
Build the stack. Load masked data. Run the happy path. Record latency, throughput, utilisation.
Write runbook v0.1.
Days 11–18 | Hardening
Push load. Find limits in data flow, token size, network, storage.
Fix the top issues or note workarounds. Add rollback steps.
Days 19–23 | Exec pack
Five slides: problem, design, KPIs, risks, next step. Dry-run with the champion.
Days 24–30 | Exit
Re-test KPIs. Produce BoM, scale notes for 2x and 5x, and a handover email.
Runbook v1.0, risks parked.

Gates. Day 3 ready or re-scope. Day 10 happy path or pause. Day 18 any red KPI must have a fix path or stop. Day 30 KPIs met and docs done or agree next sprint/exit.
Stop-loss. If a KPI is red on Day 18 with no credible fix, halt and re-scope. Log cost and options.

UK data centre capex trending to ~£10bn/year by 2029 (from ~£1.75bn in 2024), per Barbour ABI analysis. Use this in ROI narratives. 22–24 Oct reporting.
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Shadowserver “Vulnerable HTTP” (Free)
Daily report of internet-exposed hosts with known HTTP-surface vulns. Useful to clean PoC ingress before sign-off.
15-minute move. Subscribe customer ASN/netblocks. Pull CSV. Diff against CMDB. Open tickets for drift. For severity context, pair with CISA KEV
🔗 Shadowserver.org →

Make the story carry the discovery, demo and more
Great Demo! refresher: lead with the end, then three scenes tied to metrics. Use it in discovery and exec demos. 3 Oct.
Field move. Open with “last thing first,” then show current pain, proof moment, day-two operations. Tag each with a next step.
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