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For decades, “prefab” sounded like an emergency fix or a construction-site cabin. That’s changing fast, and not because of fashion: two recent stories confirm it with hard numbers, one from the world’s largest housing market and one less than 300 kilometers from our offices.

KPMG has just published its Global Tech Report 2026 on industrial manufacturing, based on responses from 258 technology leaders across 22 countries. The headline is encouraging: 68% of manufacturers already deploy AI somewhere in their operations, and 49% report concrete financial benefits from those investments. The old narrative of AI stuck in isolated pilots is finally fading.

But the report itself points to the catch. 83% of executives believe they’re building a solid data foundation to support AI. Yet 76% still cite unreliable data as one of the top risks to their AI implementation. That gap between confidence and actual capability is arguably the most important number in the whole study.

The demand for new data centre capacity is growing at an unprecedented pace, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and the ever-increasing need for real-time digital services. However, this rapid growth runs headlong

To mark the third anniversary of the REPowerEU Plan, the European Commission has published an assessment highlighting the key role of renewable energy in transforming the EU’s energy system.