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The Braintree Marks Farm Tesco Superstore is collecting toys for children who need them this Christmas.

Two of the world's biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidia's hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isn't ready to supply electricity. From a report: In Santa Clara, California, where the world's biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization. Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital, has a nearby 48-megawatt project that's also vacant, while the city-owned utility, Silicon Valley Power, struggles to upgrade its capacity. The fate of the two facilities highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy. While demand for data centers has never been greater, driven by the boom in cloud computing and AI, access to electricity is emerging as the biggest constraint. That's largely because of aging power infrastructure, a slow build-out of new transmission lines and a variety of regulatory and permitting hurdles. And the pressure on power systems is only going to increase. Electricity requirements from AI computing will likely more than double in the US alone by 2035, based on BloombergNEF projections. Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman are among corporate leaders that have predicted trillions of dollars will pour into building new AI infrastructure.

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Despite the recent spate of cuts, mortgage industry insiders say rates may not keep going down for long, especially if there are property tax changes in the Budget.

A police motorcyclist hit and killed a pensioner while driving over the speed limit through a red light as he escorted the Duchess of Edinburgh through London, a court has heard

A police motorcyclist hit and killed a pensioner while driving over the speed limit through a red light as he escorted the Duchess of Edinburgh through London, a court has heard

Format declared obsolete by Google Chrome team wins PDF support

The PDF Association will add support for the JPEG XL (JXL) image format to the PDF spec, according to a recently published presentation from the org's European conference. This inclusion means that JXL may yet gain mainstream adoption, despite being declared obsolete by the Chromium team.…

People in their thirties may be at an increased risk of heart attack or stroke even if they have 'normal' blood pressure, new research has suggested, underlining the need for young people to get regular checks.

In a new farce, the unnamed migrant came back to the UK across the Channel yesterday, Remembrance Sunday.

Many guests were left disappointed by the theme park's brand new 4D show, entitled Zootopia: Better Zoogether!, and took to X, formerly Twitter, to share their outrage.

The veteran entertainer, 86, revealed a long list of health ailments in scenes from his forthcoming documentary feature,  John Cleese Packs It In, released on November 14

A marine pollution alert is active in six municipalities on the east and south coast of Gran Canaria, having been sounded by Canary Island government officials last week

Documents accidentally released by the Ministry of Justice outline a scheme - which would cost an initial £68million and then a further £47million a year - to 'divert' women offenders out of jail.

Pure Gym, which runs more than 400 fitness centres across the country, is opening a new unit at Waterglade Retail Park, in Old Road, Clacton.

Liverpool have complained to referees' chiefs about Virgil van Dijk's disallowed goal at Manchester City on Sunday.

Michael Schumacher's nephew David Schumacher has announced his engagement to fellow racing driver Vivien Keszthelyi.

Four years on, it seems like those who dreamed of following in Hubbard's footsteps will be blocked from doing so.

This is the nail-biting moment a cyclist narrowly avoided being directly hit by an oncoming car that skidded out of control.

She shot to global notoriety in 2004 when she claimed to have had an affair with her then-boss David Beckham.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves suggested the only way she could keep the promises not to increase income tax, national insurance or VAT was to cut investment - something she has ruled out.

AI slop, Trump tantrums, and zero humans answering phones

Opinion  When the first generation of microcomputers landed on desktops, they promised many things. Affordability, flexibility, efficiency, all the good things still selling IT to this day. Mostly, though, they offered control.…