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UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster

Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain

Reform of the Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 aims to cut a year off the approval process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) in England and Wales – a category that now includes datacenters.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) confirmed that changes under the Act, taking effect later this month, will scrap the statutory requirement for pre-application consultation on NSIPs. These are major developments – power stations, railways, or water reservoirs – that, due to their national importance, bypass local council planning processes and instead get the go-ahead directly from Westminster.

MHCLG says the reform could shave up to 12 months off the planning timeline and save up to £1 billion ($1.33 billion) for the industries involved during the life of this Parliament. Developers will get technical support and "meaningful advice" from the Planning Inspectorate...

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79% Indians Avoid Unknown Business Calls, Reveals Truecaller & Tata Tele Business Services Report

Truecaller, the leading global communications platform, has released ‘The State of Business Calling 2026′ report, a comprehensive study on the role of voice calls as a customer engagement channel in India. Commissioned in partnership with Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS), with Kantar as the research partner, the insights of the

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MPs tell Brit government: Sort out your tech sovereignty or get left out in the cold

ai and ml Committee says Anthropic's brief US export ban shows UK can't even trust its allies to keep the AI lights on MPs are warning the UK has no "coherent strategy" for creating sovereign capabilities across a range of technologies, including AI, space,

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TechEx Europe 2026: eight events, 8,000 tech leaders, one enterprise agenda

Most large organisations now have the AI budgets approved and the transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what actually reaches production. That gap between strategy and delivery is the organising idea behind TechEx Europe 2026, which runs on 19 and 20 October at the RAI Amsterdam and gathers

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AI only creates value when it fixes the workflow

Businesses do not lose time on agreements - or any other business process - because they lack AI tools. They lose it because the steps involved, like contract intake, review and approvals, still move through disconnected systems, inboxes and document versions. There is an opportunity to embed AI where work

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79% Indians Avoid Unknown Business Calls, Reveals Truecaller & Tata Tele Business Services Report

MPs tell Brit government: Sort out your tech sovereignty or get left out in the cold

TechEx Europe 2026: eight events, 8,000 tech leaders, one enterprise agenda

AI only creates value when it fixes the workflow