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A power outage at a Google Cloud data centre near London caused serious failures to services on Tuesday, the US technology giant said, as several UK banks reported widespread disruptions.

Manila, Philippines – Keith Cantera and his family have been thinking about having their own solar power grid at home for years. But spending up to $5,000 for solar panels was nothing to scoff at, so they put the idea on the back burner.

A Russian ballistic missile hit a power plant in Kyiv on Tuesday evening, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, without Ukraine receiving advance warning from its Western allies and despite US President Donald Trump’s claim for an “energy ceasefire” in effect.

As AI gobbles up an ever larger amount of energy, the hunt is on for efficient and cost-effective power sources. One of the companies leading the charge is Petra Power.

The hum of the kidney dialysis machine that Onasis Munoz is connected to suddenly stops. The fluorescent lights overhead flicker out, and his room at a clinic in Valencia, Venezuela, is plunged into darkness.

Both when it comes to defence capabilities and industry capacities, Europe is in a very difficult position, Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken told Euronews. He pointed to the bloc’s decades-long prioritising of soft power as one reason for this.

Severe problems in many parts of the Greek island of Crete have been caused by the powerful wave of bad weather that has been under way since Wednesday night.

Ten metres beneath the South China Sea, scientists have found an unlikely place to generate power from the sun.

Although acquiring cryptocurrencies is called mining, the process has little in common with extracting natural resources. Crypto mining requires large amounts of electricity to run specialised computers that solve complex mathematical equations in exchange for digital coins.