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UK’s most polluting power plant could power country’s largest AI datacentre <p>Drax’s FTSE 250 owner strikes £20bn deal to build infrastructure in what it says is site’s ‘next chapter’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/nov/03/saudi-oil-company-profits-australian-central-bank-rates-brent-crude-crypto-hack-energy-prices-latest-news-updates">Business live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p></p><p>Britain’s most polluting power plant could soon power the country’s largest datacentre under a £20bn deal to build AI infrastructure on the site of the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire.</p><p>The power plant’s FTSE 250 owner has struck a deal with the infrastructure investor Brookfield and and the AI infrastructure platform Radiant to develop a datacentre with an eventual capacity of more than 1 gigawatt that could begin operations by early 2028.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/nov/03/uk-drax-power-station-ai-datacentre">Continue reading...</a>
GB Nov 3, 2026The Guardian World World 03
‘I am deeply sorry’: Craig Silvey pens 9,000-word apology for child exploitation material offences <p>The children’s author claims he experienced trauma in childhood as he begins seven-month sentence for possessing depraved material</p><ul><li><p><em><strong>Warning:</strong></em> <em>This article contains graphic content</em></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>The disgraced best-selling author Craig Silvey has claimed he experienced trauma as a child in a 9,000-word apology published after he was jailed for child exploitation offences.</p><p>The young adult novelist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/02/australian-author-craig-silvey-jailed-child-exploitation-material-ntwnfb">was sentenced on Monday</a> to seven months’ imprisonment, after being charged in January and subsequently pleading guilty to distributing and possessing depraved child exploitation material.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/03/i-am-deeply-sorry-craig-silvey-pens-9000-word-apology-for-child-exploitation-material-offences-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>
GB Nov 3, 2026The Guardian World World 04
How India pulled 500 million people out of poverty, as inequality deepens India's extreme poverty has declined from 27.1 percent to 2.6 percent between 2011 and 2023, according to the World Bank.
QA Nov 3, 2026Al Jazeera English