Are we building too many data centres – and could we build them better?

ONE ICY MORNING IN FEBRUARY, nearly 200 people gathered in a church in downtown Richmond, Va. Most had awakened before dawn and driven in from across the state. There were Republicans and Democrats fr

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I have been investigating two alternative internet access points this month. One for resilience, the other for ease of access. I confess they both come from my favoured networking company, Ubiquiti, a

Centrica focuses on investment: Lower energy prices weighed on Centrica’s full-year earnings for 2025, which fell 40% from a year earlier, says Rachel Millard in the Financial Times. The owner of Brit

Since at least the summer of last year, a large part of the financial commentariat has been waiting for the bubble in US AI stocks to burst. Instead, something stranger is unfolding. In recent weeks,