The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced new legislation that could require data center operators to pay massive electricity bills amid a growing backlash to the construction of AI data center...

A VAT cut on household electricity bills announced by the prime minister will not apply in Northern Ireland. Instead Stormont ministers will get extra money from the UK government to use on cost of living measures.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has been made a lord and minister in the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Downing Street has said.

From October 1, electricity bills will be Vat-free in the UK, saving households about £45 a year, as part of the new prime minister’s promise to help ease cost-of-living pressures.