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The investor behind a multi-million-pound transformation of a former Braintree pub says he has been faced with 'deeply frustrating' challenges.

More than 6,000 people in Essex have registered their home cameras, including doorbells, to a police scheme.

After pictures emerged of her appearance on Monday night, a clip has now been circulated that seemingly shows Swift discussing her potential future mother-in-law.

Michael Hutchence's daughter Tiger Lily Hutchence has welcomed her first child with her partner Ben Archer.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A massive data center for Meta's AI will likely lead to rate hikes for Louisiana customers, but Meta wants to keep the details under wraps. Holly Ridge is a rural community bisected by US Highway 80, gridded with farmland, with a big creek -- it is literally named Big Creek -- running through it. It is home to rice and grain mills and an elementary school and a few houses. Soon, it will also be home to Meta's massive, 4 million square foot AI data center hosting thousands of perpetually humming servers that require billions of watts of energy to power. And that energy-guzzling infrastructure will be partially paid for by Louisiana residents. The plan is part of what Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would be "a defining year for AI." On Threads, Zuckerberg boasted that his company was "building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan," posting a map of Manhattan along with the data center overlaid. Zuckerberg went on to say that over the coming years, AI "will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership. Let's go build! " What Zuckerberg did not mention is that "Let's go build" refers not only to the massive data center but also three new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants and a transmission line to fuel it serviced by Entergy Louisiana, the region's energy monopoly. Key details about Meta's investments with the data center remain vague, and Meta's contracts with Entergy are largely cloaked from public scrutiny. But what is known is the $10 billion data center has been positioned as an enormous economic boon for the area -- one that politicians bent over backward to facilitate -- and Meta said it will invest $200 million into "local roads and water infrastructure." A January report from NOLA.com said that the the state had rewritten zoning laws, promised to change a law so that it no longer had to put state property up for public bidding, and rewrote what was supposed to be a tax incentive for broadband internet meant to bridge the digital divide so that it was only an incentive for data centers, all with the goal of luring in Meta. But Entergy Louisiana's residential customers, who live in one of the poorest regions of the state, will see their utility bills increase to pay for Meta's energy infrastructure, according to Entergy's application. Entergy estimates that amount will be small and will only cover a transmission line, but advocates for energy affordability say the costs could balloon depending on whether Meta agrees to finish paying for its three gas plants 15 years from now. The short-term rate increases will be debated in a public hearing before state regulators that has not yet been scheduled. The Alliance for Affordable Energy called it a "black hole of energy use," and said "to give perspective on how much electricity the Meta project will use: Meta's energy needs are roughly 2.3x the power needs of Orleans Parish ... it's like building the power impact of a large city overnight in the middle of nowhere."

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Donald Trump was all smiles as he arrived in the Netherlands on Tuesday and rubbed shoulders with European royalty after facilitating a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran.

As Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's multi-million dollar wedding looms over Venice, branding and etiquette experts note that 'status-signalling' nutpials can have the opposite effect in the UK.

An innocuous-seeming paparazzi photograph may have inadvertently revealed details about Lauren Sanchez 's fiercely-guarded bridal look ahead of her Venetian wedding to Jeff Bezos,

The 'top secret' report suggested that Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium remained intact after the bombing - with the damage mainly confined to aboveground structures.

One shudders to think what Donald Trump would say if forced to watch the House of Commons for any length of time. The stream of Anglo-Saxon might rival Beowulf.

Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks

NASA is struggling to meet all the goals of its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, the effort that aims to prevent humanity being wiped out by space rocks that hit Earth.…

Just one day after it was revealed Cobra Kai star Martin Kove was kicked out of a Washington fan convention for biting his co-star Alicia Hannah-Kim , the actor is breaking his silence on the matter.

Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen billowing from a three-storey building in Granby Row, Dublin.

Hercules has been reduced from legendary hero to close to zero by a laboured new musical version of his derring-do, based on the 1997 animated film, writes PATRICK MARMION

The new range is on sale now in all Primark stores

Harrison Ford's longtime actress love Calista Flockhart looked frail as she was seen on a rare solo public outing this week.

What if we told you that the right shade could do more than elevate your kerb appeal - it could actually boost your property value?

Katy Perry appeared downcast while partying on a boat in Perth on Tuesday as rumours ramp up that she has split with fiancé Orlando Bloom.

The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: Huawei's chairman Xu Zhijun -- aka Eric Xu -- has called out China's enormous lead in fiber-to-the-room (FTTR) installations. Speaking at last week's Mobile World Congress event in Shanghai, Xu shared his views on the telecommunications industry's future growth opportunities and said by the end of 2025 China will be home to 75 million FTTR installations -- but just 500,000 exist outside the Middle Kingdom. Xu said FTTR will benefit businesses by increasing their internet connection speeds, helping them address spotty Wi-Fi coverage, allowing them to deploy tech in more places, and therefore creating more opportunities to adopt productivity-boosting devices and services. FTTR will also help carriers to sell more expensive packages, he said. Xu also urged telecom carriers to target high-growth user groups like delivery riders and livestream influencers, citing their above-average data consumption and revenue potential. Delivery riders, who will make up 5% of the global workforce by 2030, use four times more voice minutes and double the data of average users, while influencers generate five times the data usage and four times the revenue. He also pushed for greater collaboration between carriers and platforms to deliver more high-res video content, and called for improved efficiency in networking equipment and device power use. "Xu said Huawei is here to help carriers deliver any of the scenarios he mentioned," concludes Sharwood. "And of course it is, because the Chinese giant has a thriving business selling to telcos -- or at least to telcos beyond the liberal democracies that have largely decided Huawei's close ties with Beijing mean the company and its products represent an unacceptable threat to the operation of critical infrastructure."

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Bunnie, three, was walking home with her father and two siblings last Tuesday when the Cockapoo attacked her outside Miers Court Primary School in Rainham, Kent, at around 3.30pm.