# Data Center daily digest — 20 Oct 2026

One data center release is listed for 20 October. CommonAI has selected Kao Data's Harlow campus to host the UK's AI Scaling Inference Lab, a national testbed funded by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency that will run several high-density GPU and accelerator clusters.

Source-local date: Tuesday 20 October 2026 (America/Los_Angeles). 1 release(s). Canonical: https://mediarelease.co/digests/data-center/2026-10-20/

## Releases

### [CommonAI selects Kao Data to host the UK’s Scaling Inference Lab – providing a national testbed for next-generation AI infrastructure](https://mediarelease.co/us/mr02238-commonai-selects-kao-data-to-host-the-uks-20102026.html)

Issued by: Kao Data · Original source: https://kaodata.com/discover/news/commonai-selects-kao-data-to-host-the-uks-scaling-inference-lab-providing-a-national-testbed-for-next-generation-ai-infrastructure/

CommonAI has chosen Kao Data’s Harlow campus to host the UK’s AI Scaling Inference Lab, funded by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency. CommonAI will deploy at least five high-density GPU and accelerator clusters in two dedicated suites, testing approaches such as pipeline parallelism and optical circuit switching, with all five aimed to be operational by early 2027. The hardware mix includes NVIDIA HGX B300, H200 NVL and AMD Instinct MI350X systems.

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