Leading with Purpose: Kao Data’s 2025 Health, Safety & Environmental Performance
As we close out 2025, I want to take a moment to reflect on what has been a defining year for Health, Safety and Environmental performance at Kao Data. This year’s End of Year HSE Report demonstrates not only strong metrics and governance, but something far more important: a maturing safety culture, genuine collaboration, and […]
Can the UK Produce a Frontier AI Company? An AI Founder’s Perspective
When I first began studying Law at university in London, I did not imagine that I would one day be building artificial intelligence (AI) products. Yet, even during my undergraduate studies, I found myself drawn to the intersection of AI and law. My dissertation explored how the fair dealing exception in UK copyright law could […]
The Unseen Heroes Behind Every Successful AI Deployment
The UK’s ambition to become an AI superpower isn’t just about policy papers and investment announcements. It requires physical infrastructure capable of handling the intense demands of modern, GPU accelerated, high-density AI workloads – and right now, there isn’t nearly enough of it. At Kao Data, we’re working to change that. But, creating genuine AI-ready […]
Top 5 Takeaways from the techUK Innovation Summit 2025
Last week, I had the pleasure of joining a panel of industry experts at the techUK Innovation Summit to explore a big question: Can the UK build its first trillion-dollar tech company? Here are my five key takeaways from that discussion: 1. The UK Has the Talent Let’s start with the positive. The panel unanimously […]
Standardised Cooling for AI Workloads – A Realistic Goal or a Pipedream?
Last week I was delighted to take part in an interesting panel discussion on AI infrastructure and the considerations for data centres, hosted by our partners, Red Engineering Design. It’s always fascinating to be part of these industry meet-ups with so many views, opinions and experienced heads in the room and so firstly, hats off […]
10 Highlights from our latest 2024–25 ESG Report: Greater Clarity, Deeper Impact
This quarter we’ve published our third Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Report which covers our operations and activities across the financial year 2024-25. This year’s report reflects both progress and evolution: not only have we achieved tangible improvements across our environmental metrics, but we’ve also deepened transparency, sharpened analysis, and made the report itself more […]
Turning the Government’s AI Vision into Action at Liverpool’s Labour Party Conference
As a politics graduate, I’ve always seen party conferences as something akin to Glastonbury — only with fewer guitars and more policy papers. And, I can confirm that for those of us working in digital infrastructure and the tech space, this year’s Labour Party Conference had the same atmosphere of anticipation and possibility. Since […]
AI in the UK? Time to Blow the Bloody Doors Off!
Donald and his Silicon Valley entourage are in town – and kerching – the US dollars are following them freely into the UK cash register. Promises of lucrative partnerships, a new AI Growth Zone in the North East, and a step-change in US-UK cooperation on AI, quantum computing, and big tech are all piling up. […]
AI – The UK will be a Taker, not Maker, unless we address fundamental issues now
With Donald, Jenson and Sam in London this week, many eyes will be cast in the direction of the UK’s AI future, and the US’s influence in that. Their visit was certainly one of the key talking points at DCD Connect London today. Jenson humorously recently referred to the UK as “having one of the richest […]
Health, Safety and the Environment – The Kao Way.
When I joined Kao Data, I found a company that already took health, safety and environmental performance seriously. The commitment was clear in the way colleagues worked, in the standards that guided daily activity and, in the pride, taken in doing the right thing even when it was not the easiest or fastest option. Together, […]