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RWE has withdrawn its planned Butterfly solar-plus-storage project in Wales after concluding that grid connection availability made the scheme unviable.

Britain says it monitored a month-long Russian submarine and surveillance-vessel operation near infrastructure relevant to the UK and its allies in the North Atlantic.

A Guardian podcast zeroes in on delayed projects, unclear spending commitments, and fears that Britain’s heavy AI wager could become politically costly if the boom stalls.

Residents of Potters Bar, a quiet commuter town north of London, are fighting a five-billion-dollar data center project that would consume 85 acres of protected greenbelt farmland. Their battle has become a flashpoint in the collision between AI infrastructure demands and local conservation.