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Holly Willoughby's new YouTube show brought in 41,000 views on its first day - after it was panned by critics and branded 'dire'.

From overpacking to not having the right clothes to wear, it seems that packing to go on holiday is rarely an easy affair.

Tax relief on money held in cash Isas doubled in just one year as savers stuffed money into the accounts to avoid the taxman's clutches.

Works to install the cameras will happen during the night

Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations

Around 70 firefighters are on the scene, officials said

A crack house. We all have a mental image of one, on the poorest fringes of town in its meanest street; squalid and derelict, like the dissolute and lost souls who frequent it.

Berkeley Group will cover up to two years' tuition at St John's Preparatory and Senior School for parents who buy in its Trent Park gated community near Enfield, north London.

Idi Amin's grandson accused officials of racism after he was disqualified for headbutting England's Damar Thomas. Ugandan super heavyweight Aziz Abdul is a descendent of the country's brutal despot.

The discovery came a day after the 32-year-old woman gave birth to a healthy boy at home, before being taken to hospital.

Firefighters have been at the blaze since 5:30pm on Wednesday

As usual, Heidi, 53, looked nothing short of amazing as she basked in the sunshine in an itty bitty cream bikini.

Oprah Winfrey has revealed that the girls' school she established in South Africa will be closing its doors after nearly two decades.

A man who helped organise the supply of drugs in Braintree had an addiction which “took over his life”, a court heard.

Herondale was rated inadequate following a visit from the CQC

Therapist and The Affair host Anna Williamson shares what hundreds of confessions have taught her about infidelity, emotional affairs and whether relationships can recover.

Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible

An anonymous reader quotes a New York Times report on how AI companies are pouring money into training and recruiting electricians, carpenters, and other skilled tradespeople to build data centers: There is no parallel in American history for the boom underway in the construction of data centers, fueled by companies with functionally unlimited cash that are racing to supply skyrocketing demand for their A.I. models. The explosion has offset flagging activity in other sectors, like office construction, which never recovered after the pandemic. Housing has been depressed by high interest rates, and offshore wind felled by political opposition. Still, competition for labor -- never mind land and materials -- is starting to weigh on other parts of the industry. "There's no question the resources are very limited, so decisions to build one thing kind of drag from another," said Mario Iacobacci, who runs the construction and infrastructure advisory practice at Oxford Economics. Developers are paying a premium for workers, especially in the rural areas where they are building data centers. According to an analysis by Indeed, the job listings website, hourly installation and maintenance jobs at data centers pay 42 percent more than similar jobs in other fields. Behind that inflated pay is a bidding war. In markets with a lot of data center construction, like Dallas and Northern Virginia, workers can jump ship for bonuses or higher per diem rates. The competition has driven contractors to staffing services like Aerotek. "It is creating a labor tension that is really delicate," said Marty Schager, Aerotek's director of data center market development. "You've got a passive job-seeker community out there right now that I think is looking to potentially capture opportunity with this once-in-a-generation data center gold rush." [...] The question looms over the apprentices who will become journeymen as the build-out reaches fever pitch. Fully trained electricians could shift to nuclear plants, apartment buildings or pharmaceutical factories. But it's hard to imagine anything on the scale of what's underway. "The best-case scenario would be you train all these skilled workers up and right when the data centers start to become less popular is we'd have a housing boom," said Jeff Strohl, director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. "That's probably not likely." "If we have an influx of workers at this point with the data centers being built, what happens when they're done? Where do those workers go?" he said. "How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?"

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But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple

A major incident has been declared as firefighters tackle a large-scale wildfire at Dunwich Heath, a National Trust location on the Suffolk coast near Sizewell B nuclear power station, with the public advised to stay away from the area