Andrew McLean

Scotland, Cumbria and North East England could attract more data centre investment if developers can turn regional energy advantages into dependable power, competitive operating costs and usable connectivity. Scotland's

UK small businesses should prepare a technology improvement plan, but should not budget for an unconfirmed subsidy. The government's

Britain should build care technology for overseas markets from the outset. Japan offers a practical starting point, but export success depends on demonstrated benefits, full costs and dependable local support.

Copilot+ PCs can support useful offline tasks when the application, model and required files are available locally.

British companies should judge small modular reactor opportunities by their ability to deliver repeatable, documented work, rather than by reactor announcements alone. Canada's Darlington project makes that commercial test concrete, with

Canada's Darlington programme makes a strong case for British technology firms to pursue nuclear supply contracts, rather than wait for electricity exports to become their opportunity.

Australia's endorsement of common energy-device requirements should push British buyers to demand a credible exit route before purchasing connected hardware. Our position is that the ability to change energy services should become a purchasing condition, alongside performance and warranty. Australia's

Canada's new data centre principles should prompt British buyers to ask for water evidence at their next cloud renewal. My position is that litres per unit of compute belongs in procurement, provided suppliers disclose what they counted, where and when.

Germany plans to build much of its hydrogen network from existing gas pipelines. Britain should investigate the same opportunity, while making every

Britain should develop suitable salt caverns alongside credible hydrogen customers. The opportunity reaches engineering, monitoring and software, but geological potential alone cannot establish a commercial asset.