News Wrap Archive
Welcome to the DICE Network’s bi-weekly news wrap – your quick round-up of the latest developments, opportunities, and stories from across the digital innovation and circualar economy landscape. Whether you’re catching up or staying ahead, this is your go-to source for what’s happening now.

News Wrap - 22 Aug 2025
In this addition, the most significant news impacting our network is the introduction of new carbon credits specifically for electronics recycling and reuse, offering innovative financial mechanisms for circular tech. Furthermore, the focus on making digital infrastructure itself more sustainable is growing, with significant innovation in data centre cooling technologies crucial for the burgeoning AI sector. Finally, rapid advancements in AI models and infrastructure, including Oracle’s major deals with OpenAI and Nvidia, continue to redefine the technological landscape, presenting both opportunities and challenges for responsible innovation.
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Launched in January 2025, the Digital Innovation and Circular Economy (DICE) Network+ is an EPSRC-funded, three-year programme that seeks to leverage the digitalisation of industry to foster a circular economy across sectors and value chains for digital and communication technologies. Our Network+ comprises eleven investigators from nine UK universities, along with a breadth of academic, industry and policy partners.