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Infrastructure investment

  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    BlackRock Inc
    BlackRock and Microsoft plan $30bn fund to invest in AI infrastructure

    Nvidia and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX will join effort as energy-intensive tech strains power and data grids

  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    UK economy
    Treasury ‘saying no to everything’ will hit growth, warns Burnham

    Manchester mayor says powerful finance ministry has to fundamentally change way it thinks

    Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    China, America and a global struggle for power and influence

    The whole world risks losing from the rivalry between Washington and Beijing

    A James Ferguson illustration of a bullet train passing through a landscape at dusk with Mount Fiji in the background, a bald eagle hovering above and some stars in the sky in the shape of the Chinese national flag
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Delayed Transpennine rail upgrade reviewed again ahead of Budget

    Electrification of Manchester-Leeds route being studied for potential cost savings

    A TransPennine Express train
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Virgin Media O2
    Virgin Media O2 to sell stake in mobile towers business

    Deal for holding in Cornerstone joint venture comes as telecoms groups monetise infrastructure assets

    Mobile phone mast in Cardiff
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Rail
    New rail line needed between Midlands and northern England, study says

    The 80km of track could be built faster and cheaper than axed HS2 leg, says research

    Class 390 154 races north of Rugby as it joins the Trent Valley section of the West Coast Main Line with London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly service
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    UK data centres to be designated critical infrastructure

    Facilities to be given greater cyber protection in effort to minimise potential effect of adverse events or attacks

    Data centre with servers
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    UK nationalisation
    England ‘bus revolution’ will need more investment, Labour warned

    Plans to give councils the power to run their own services require extra funding, say operators and local authorities

    Passengers climb aboard a bus as it travels down the North Yorkshire coast between Saltburn By The Sea and Whitby
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Christopher Grimes
    Can LA end its love affair with cars?

    Ahead of the 2028 Olympics, the city has quietly become the leader in US public transport investment

    View down Rodeo Drive  drive with cars and palm trees and blue sky
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Andy Bagnall
    Rail renationalisation won’t boost UK growth

    Given the backdrop, the Treasury is unlikely to give rail the funding it needs to improve punctuality or hold down fares

    London Waterloo railway station
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Thames Water
    Thames Water creditors examine cash injection to avoid nationalisation

    Lenders including US hedge fund Elliott in talks over back-up plan as UK’s largest utility struggles to raise equity

    Thames Water van
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Chinese foreign policy
    China’s Xi courts African leaders to ward off geopolitical rivals

    Debt woes, trade imbalances and weakening domestic economy cloud Beijing summit with 50 African countries

    China’s President Xi Jinping and Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Water executives to face jail if they obstruct UK investigations

    New legislation gives regulator Ofwat extra powers on executive pay at utility companies

    Waste water flows out of a pipe into a river
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Investment, not ownership, is the issue for Britain’s railways

    Nationalising train operators is no guarantee of better performance

    Commuters walk along a platform at Waterloo Station in London
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone set to acquire Australian data centre business AirTrunk

    World’s largest private equity group bets on growth of artificial intelligence in Asia-Pacific region

    Signage of the Blackstone headquarters in New York with the company name "Blackstone" prominently displayed on a black background.
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    UK Broadband
    UK government taps telecoms industry over boosting broadband in blocks of flats

    Department for Science, Innovation and Technology wants to know where barriers ‘can be mitigated or removed’

    A block of flats
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Thames Water
    Thames Water hits back at regulator with call for further bill rise

    Utility calls for 52 per cent increase in customer bills by 2030 to fund investment

    Thames Water van with logo
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    US election complicates investors’ hunt for infrastructure deals

    Fund managers are flush with cash but uncertainty over subsidies and tariffs has chilled activity

    Workers construct an array of solar panel
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Tech industry taps old power stations to expand AI infrastructure

    Companies need vast tracts of land and resources that industrial sites can provide

    Cooling towers of Eggborough Power Station emitting steam against a dark sky. In the foreground, there are residential houses and a field with a white horse
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    LexBT Group Plc
    The ‘altnet’ threat to BT is overdone Premium content

    Sky’s deal with CityFibre complements, rather than replaces, its existing arrangement with Openreach network

    An Openreach engineer attaching fibre optics to a control unit
  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    UK ports group warns of ‘regulatory drag’ on new green infrastructure

    Peel Ports says delivery of projects is taking ‘inordinate’ amount of time

    MSC Angela is unloaded by cranes at Peel Ports Liverpool
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    UK needs Europe-style private funding for transport projects, review says

    Improved infrastructure required to plug productivity ‘gap’ across country

    Forcing new track into line during the West Coast main line upgrade
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    FT SeriesClamour for Africa
    The US-backed railway sparking a battle for African copper

    Washington’s support for a minerals train connecting the DRC to the Atlantic illustrates its desire to compete with China

    Montage image of a locomotive, a man and a map showing the route of the rail project
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Inside BusinessRaphael Minder
    Poland’s big bet on a new airport

    After years of debate, new project seen as the next big thing in the country’s economic development

    A passenger wheels his baggage past information boards at Chopin airport
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    BT Group Plc
    BT suffers blow as Sky opts for CityFibre’s network in broadband deal

    FTSE 100 group’s existing agreement with media company will remain but choice of rival ‘altnet’ puts it under pressure

    CityFibre van
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