Opinion: The connected future, data centres and AI

Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is gradually creeping into our homes and businesses. Amazon Echo is already available in the U.K., with Google Home on the way; Dominos Pizza launched a new chat-bot, supported by Facebook Messenger, for customers to interact with. And then there are the daily stories about how AI will change our lives. The theories around centaur approaches, which combine computing power from machines with the decision making of humans, will likely win through. Computing power is such that it can cut through mountains of information to find insight and decisions.