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1 month ago | cnbc.com | April Roach |Sophie Kiderlin

Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused Denmark of underinvesting in the security architecture of Greenland as he claimed other European allies had failed to keep pace with defense spending. Trump has repeatedly expressed his desire to gain control of the autonomous Danish territory, describing the prospect as an "absolute necessity" for purposes related to national security.

2 months ago | cnbc.com | April Roach

The boom in artificial intelligence, a pressing need for more data centers and the energy transition story — particularly in transportation — are all spurring demand for electricity, and the existing power infrastructure is struggling to keep up. Businesses are facing five to eight-year wait times to connect to Europe's ageing and strained electricity grids, experts told CNBC, as the emergence of new areas of demand drives an unprecedented rise in permit requests for power.

2 months ago | cnbc.com | Emma Graham |April Roach

Private equity investor KKR & Co. is offering about £4 billion ($5 billion) to take control of the U.K.'s struggling Thames Water utility in a management-led buyout, according to a person familiar with the matter. Thames, Britain's largest water utility serving some 16 million customers in London and the Thames River valley, is saddled with ballooning debt and has warned it will run out of cash by March 24.

Feb 14, 2025 | msn.com | April Roach

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Feb 14, 2025 | cnbc.com | April Roach

The emergence of cheaper and more efficient AI models off the back of China's DeepSeek could reshape demand for data centers, boosting a sector that investors were already heavily betting would continue to boom. For years now, analysts have forecast exponential growth in data centers — the critical infrastructure required for powering the world's digital transition and the training of large language models (LLMs).