Spotlight: Ed Miliband announces the outcome of Europe's biggest ever offshore wind farm auction, data centre applications continue to soar and new town locations expected in the coming weeks

ENERGY

🗣 With this record wind power auction, we’ve proved the rightwing doubters wrong | The Rt Hon Ed Miliband

📰 Offshore windfarm contracts to fuel 12m homes in Great Britain after record auction | The Guardian

📰 Contract secured for one of world's largest offshore wind farms Berwick Bank | BBC News

📰 Record wind power production slashes British imports | Energy Voice

📰 Ageing power plants raise risks to UK energy security and net zero goals | Energy Live News

📰 UK government rejects net zero cost claims | ReNews

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INFRASTRUCTURE

📰 Data centre planning applications rocket more than 60 per cent | City AM

📰 Honey, I shrunk the data centres: Is small the new big? | BBC News

🗣 Connecting data centres to the electricity networks | Hogan Lovells

🗣 Why repurposing industrial warehouses as edge data centres can be beneficial for all involved | Savills

📰 Government promises £45bn for rail improvements in north of England | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 How the UK ended up building the world’s most expensive railway | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 Prime Minister describes South East Water supply problems as "totally unacceptable" and demands urgent infrastructure investment | Water Magazine

📰 Why the world is turning to Greenland’s rare earth metals | Innovation News Network

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DEVELOPMENT

📰 New towns update expected 'in coming weeks' | Local Government Chronicle

📰 Housing targets could be reduced for new town areas | LocalGov

🗣 Housing density and the ‘density gap’ in British cities | Centre for Cities

📰 Trump’s planned limits on US property investing could spur foray into UK housing market | The Guardian

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