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Emissions understated by factor of five in Essex plans for tech giant, while Greystoke’s Lincolnshire plans show similar error Developers working for Google have significantly misstated how much carbon two proposed AI datacentres will contribute to the UK’s total emissions in planning documents reviewed by the Guardian. The tech company wants to build two huge datacentres – one 52-hectare (130 acre) project in Thurrock and another at an airfield in North Weald, both in Essex. To do so, developers are required to submit planning documents calculating how much carbon these projects will emit as a proportion of the UK’s total carbon footprint. Continue reading...

Google's AI search will start citing its sources in several new ways.

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San Francisco startup Altara has raised $7 million in seed funding led by Greylock, with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Jeff Dean, to build an AI platform that unifies fragmented technical data for hardware-intensive industries including batteries, semiconductors, and medical devices. Founded in 2025 by Eva Tuecke, a former Fermilab physicist and […]

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