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ClickHouse is the fastest practical way to query high-volume event data, and it is not a general-purpose database.

Europe's shift away from US tech isn't ideology; it's risk management, and businesses face the same vendor dependency problem governments are now acting on.

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AI is driving fast growth in data centre energy and water use. What sustainable cloud infrastructure looks like and what clients now expect from providers.