Accelerating AI integration – Steve Young, MD, Dell UK
UKTN | The Podcast
UKTN
5.0 • 6 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Steve Young, managing director of Dell UK, discusses Dell’s expansion into the data centre and artificial intelligence industry, what is needed to accelerate the growth and efficacy of AI integration and why he has remained at the same company for so long.
Dell is among the most well-known electronics brands, most famous for its computers and laptops. The company has more recently taken a leading role in the AI industry.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | AI, I don't think it will replace us. I think it will enhance us and I think that's how we see it. |
| 0:12.0 | So anything that makes our teams more efficient and allows us to talk to more customers, |
| 0:18.0 | I see is a good thing. I don't see it as a workforce reduction |
| 0:22.2 | thing. So there's definitely an opportunity and we're seeing lots of new entrants to build |
| 0:28.7 | the data center infrastructure that's going to power UK PLC for the next decade. |
| 0:33.6 | A GPU, a server infrastructure, you know, running super hot as it's doing all those |
| 0:41.4 | calculations on the data, surrounded by liquid, clearly that liquid warms up. So what |
| 0:47.5 | deep green are doing is they're using the thermals of that liquid to heat a local council swimming pool. |
| 0:58.4 | And now a message from our podcast sponsor, HSBC Innovation Banking. |
| 1:03.8 | You're not ordinary. |
| 1:05.3 | No 9 to 5 meal, deal lunches, meetings about meetings, compulsory team building, living for the weekend. |
| 1:12.8 | You're made for more, for the extraordinary, and you need an extraordinary bank. |
| 1:18.7 | HSBC innovation banking exists exclusively to help visionary VC-backed tech and life science |
| 1:25.0 | businesses achieve their ambitions. |
| 1:30.3 | From Precede to IPO and beyond, we provide custom solutions co-created by actual industry experts to help you scale, delivered |
| 1:37.3 | by a dedicated team you can call whenever you need to. Find out why 4 in 10 UK Unicorns have chosen us at HSBC InnovationBanking.com. |
| 1:48.7 | Disclaimer. |
| 1:51.0 | Number represents UK VC backed companies with a market valuation greater than $1 billion |
| 1:56.3 | in November 2025 that are serviceable by HSBC Innovation Bank Limited. |
| 2:03.1 | Please see our website for full details about HSBC Innovation Bank Limited's serviceable market. |
| 2:25.1 | Hello and welcome to the UKTN podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry. |
| 2:35.8 | I'm the destination for all things UK tech related. I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I'm joined by Steve Young, managing director of Dell UK. Welcome, Steve. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from UKTN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of UKTN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.