A tech company has said it still plans to build the UK's largest AI data centre despite Microsoft pulling out of the project.
Nscale announced last year it had pledged £2bn to build and open a pioneering facility in Loughton , Essex.
However, the BBC understands that Microsoft, which said it would fund a supercomputer at the site, has terminated its involvement.
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Antisocial behaviour on buses in England could lead to fines while a new campaign is also being launched for trains. A national campaign asking rail passengers "share the carriage, not the noise" is being launched.
Trading standards officers say AI is "super-charging" existing scams through clones and fake websites.
Home sellers cut asking prices on more than 3,000 properties a day on average in Britain during September, according to figures from Rightmove shared exclusively with the BBC. The property website said the total was the highest of any month for 15 years and was driven, in part, by a glut of homes on the market and some sellers setting unrealistic expectations. The proportion of listed homes that eventually had a price cut peaked in 2023 and has remained relatively high since.
Environmental watchdog Mighty Earth reveals two-year effort to postpone and weaken EU Deforestation Regulation US corporate lobbyists launched a two-year “blitz” to postpone and weaken the world’s most progressive legislation to protect forests, according to a new investigation by the environmental watchdog Mighty Earth. Major US firms and trade associations, including Cargill, Bunge, Mondelēz and the US Soybean Export Council, as well as numerous other US firms and organizations, sought to influence the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) in more than…