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Half of children in England live in homes at risk of overheating
Meghan OwenWork and money correspondent, BBC London and
Lauren StanleyBBC London
BBCAs the UK experiences hotter temperatures families across the country are increasingly feeling the impact, with their homes no longer a sanctuary but an unbearable space that many are desperate to escape.
Keisha says her top-floor flat can reach up to 43C in summer, and the baseline temperature is around 31C.
“It should be illegal to live in these conditions,” says the 36-year-old, one of many parents who say that living in an “unbearably” hot flat is making their children sick.
Almost 5.5 million children – over half of those in England – are living in homes at risk of overheating, according to new analysis of the English Housing Survey 2022 by the Resolution Foundation think tank. Over a million of those children are living in London, mostly in social housing.
‘The heat makes her unwell’
Keisha has lived in her new-build flat in Woolwich, south-east London, for eight years.
Her nine year old daughter struggles in the heat, “unable to regulate her temperature”.
“She doesn’t feel well, her tummy often hurts.”
“The other night it was 20 degrees outside and she was crying at 3am. I take endless litres of water to her room just to make her calm down.”
Keisha often walks the streets at night or drives around in an air-conditioned car to escape the heat. She says air-conditioning for her flat is unaffordable, and she was quoted £8,000 per bedroom to install it.
Keisha’s housing association says that when the block was constructed, “it met all planning and building regulations at the time, however, along with most properties in the UK, with the extreme temperatures we’re now seeing, these buildings were not designed or built in a way which would keep them cool”.
Some housing associations are “extremely mindful” of the risk of homes overheating and are developing strategic climate adaptation plans to address the risks posed by hot summers, according to Alistair Smyth, director of policy and research at the National Housing Federation.
“We are committed to working with the government on this issue and we would support a national overheating strategy, with appropriate funding solutions, so that both new and existing homes can be adapted to withstand future climate change,” he told BBC London.
The Resolution Foundation, an independent think-tank focused on improving the living standards of those on low-to-middle incomes, is urging the government to ensure that the costs of remediating hot homes are affordable.
“Many people don’t have the means to invest to make their properties cooler,” says principal economist Jonathan Marshall.
Homes in the UK are built to retain heat in a temperate climate, with energy efficiency regulations for new dwellings now requiring improved insulation to reduce the need for heating in winter.
“An effort [is needed] on making homes greener – insulating homes but doing so in a way that doesn’t make them overheat in the summer,” Mr Marshall says.
The foundation’s analysis of the 2022 English Housing Survey figures shows that over half the children in England are living in homes at risk of overheating.
“This is not just an issue that’s going to happen in the middle of July on a 35-degree day. If it gets to high 20s in early spring or late autumn, homes could overheat then too.”
Mother-of-two Sarah, who lives in Islington, north London, says she recorded 43C heat this summer in her living room, but thinks the bedrooms reach even higher temperatures. She says she spends more on electricity in the summer, to power fans in their two-bedroom flat, than she does in the winter.
“‘It makes the kids sick – they have no appetite. It affects our sleep.”
The block is surrounded by scaffolding because of cladding remediation work. Sarah says it’s a problem to open the windows because they’ve had intruders climbing on the scaffolding and workmen outside every day.
“The summers are going to get longer and hotter. Families can’t live the way we’re living. The amount of fans we’ve got 24/7 – it helps but it’s not a solution.”
Her daughter Maddie, 18, says it has taken a toll on her social life, because people don’t want to go to the flat.
“You can feel quite nauseous from it. I’ve had headaches from dehydration.
“I come out of the bedroom in the morning and I say, ‘Mum, feel my clothes’ – it’s like they’ve come off a washing line.”
Her brother, six, says the heat has made him physically sick.
Over a million of the estimated 5.5 million children living in homes at risk of overheating are in London.
“The issue of space is more acute in cities, especially in London, where homes are smaller,” Mr Marshall says. “Smaller homes are much more likely to overheat.”
He adds that single-aspect homes, with windows only at the front of a room, are hot in part because of a lack of airflow.
Dr Amaran Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy is an NHS paediatrician and member of health justice campaign charity Medact.
He says that signs a child has become overheated can include confusion, altered mental state, irritability, a raised core body temperature and nausea.
“Given the climate crisis and extreme heat are getting worse year on year, there’s never been a more urgent time to take action on our unsafe and unhealthy housing stock in the UK.”
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health urged national and local governments to work with the housing sector to “adapt against heat stress as well as cold and damp in our current and future housing stock all of which impact on children’s health.”
“Young children are more vulnerable to heat-related illness”, says Helena Clements, its officer for climate change.
“As temperatures rise across the UK, heat will become an increasingly important consideration for paediatricians.
“Greater attention must be paid to raising awareness of the risks from heat and the adverse impacts in early life and during pregnancy, with families encouraged to follow government advice on keeping children cool.”
‘Architectural crisis’
The 2022 summer heatwave was one of the most intense recorded in the UK and caused 4,500 heat-related deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Up to 10,000 people in the UK could die every year by 2050 from heat-related illnesses if no action is taken to adapt to our warming climate – although cold weather can also be the cause of excess deaths.
The country is facing an “architectural crisis”, says Andy Love, founding director of Shade the UK.
The community interest company has partnered with the London School of Economics to push for a user-friendly metric of overheating, similar to Energy Performance Certificates which rate a property’s energy efficiency, so that tenants and buyers understand heat risk to buildings before deciding whether to move in.
Mr Love adds that many homes in the UK have been built for temperate climates, and “do not function properly during hot weather” including blocks with “full floor to ceiling-height glazing, single-aspect homes”.
In the short term, Mr Love recommends putting a wet towel through the window to act as a blocker to the direct sun and leaving windows open when it’s cool in the evening to bring in air for the morning.
A government spokesperson said: “We are investing £13.2bn to improve up to five million homes over this Parliament, boosting the energy efficiency of housing to cope with higher temperatures.
“We are also taking action to strengthen climate resilience across government and local communities, improving our infrastructure and making sure homes are fit for the future.”
The government plans to set out its approach to overheating and cooling in the Warm Homes Plan, which will be published in October, and the Future Homes Standard.
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Meet the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock With $368 Billion in Revenue Coming Down the Pipeline
Key Points
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A handful of big tech companies are set to spend over $300 billion building AI infrastructure this year.
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Demand for compute is growing just as fast as companies can stand up new servers.
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This giant has more commitments and is growing faster than almost everyone in the market.
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A handful of big tech companies are set to spend over $300 billion building AI infrastructure this year.
Demand for compute is growing just as fast as companies can stand up new servers.
This giant has more commitments and is growing faster than almost everyone in the market.
The artificial intelligence boom is only getting bigger, with just a handful of big tech companies on track to spend over $300 billion on AI infrastructure this year alone. Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) recently bumped its capital expenditure outlook for the full year from $75 billion to $85 billion. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is on track to spend over $100 billion in capital expenditures, mostly going toward new data centers and servers to fill them. And Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is planning a whopping $10 billion of spending per month for the current quarter.
By far the biggest beneficiary from all that spending has been Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). The chipmaker has seen its data center chip sales soar over the last few years, including a 56% jump in its most recent quarter. And demand doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon, with analysts expecting revenue to grow nearly as much next year as this year (on an absolute basis).
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But another AI giant just disclosed it has $368 billion of contracted revenue, and it’s doing everything it can to keep up with the massive demand it’s seeing.
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Huge long-term commitments give this stock a massive runway
All three major cloud computing platforms disclose their backlog, or remaining performance obligations, and all three are seeing healthy growth.
- Alphabet said its Google Cloud backlog climbed to $108 billion last quarter, a 37% increase from a year ago.
- Amazon said its Amazon Web Services backlog totaled $195 billion, a 25% increase from a year ago.
- Microsoft revealed a $368 billion backlog last quarter, a 37% increase from last year.
Indeed, Microsoft is the AI giant with $368 billion coming down the pipeline.
There’s an important caveat about Microsoft’s remaining performance obligations. It includes contracts for commercial software and services like Microsoft 365 and its Azure cloud computing platform. As such, it’s not a perfect apples-to-apples comparison with Amazon or Alphabet. Still, the growth is impressive, and the metric Microsoft shares suggests Azure may be growing its commitments significantly faster than its two biggest rivals.
Importantly, Microsoft’s backlog growth is stemming from a growing number of long-term commitments. Microsoft said just 35% of those commitments will be recognized as revenue in the next 12 months, with the total increasing 21% year over year. The amount recognized beyond 12 months grew 49%. By comparison, Alphabet saw the percentage of commitments set to be recognized as revenue within 24 months drop from 55% to 50% last quarter. Amazon saw the average length of its long-term commitments get a slight bump from 3.9 years to 4 years.
That shift can skew just how much faster Azure is growing compared to its rivals. If Microsoft is extending the length of its contracts, it’ll naturally have a bigger backlog. Still, the long-term commitments put Microsoft in a position to generate strong growth for Azure for years to come. Management shared that Azure is now a $75 billion business, after exhibiting 39% year-over-year revenue growth last quarter. It expects 37% growth next quarter. That makes it roughly 50% larger than Google Cloud, but growing faster. And its massive backlog means it can continue outpacing the competition in the future.
Demand continues to outpace supply
Microsoft management has been telling investors for well over a year that demand for its cloud computing services, particularly its Azure AI services, is higher than its supply. That remained the case in the fourth quarter. To be sure, that’s not a situation unique to Microsoft. Both Amazon and Alphabet have made similar comments on their earnings calls.
But Microsoft is spending more than anyone building out its data centers. As mentioned, it committed to spending $30 billion on capex this quarter, and management refused to provide guidance on how much it might spend through the rest of fiscal 2026. But given the massive and rapidly growing backlog of demand for its AI services, investors should be happy to see Microsoft build as quickly as possible. It’s important to remember that Microsoft also holds a leading position as enterprises migrate more of their systems from on-premise to the cloud, specializing in hybrid cloud environments using Windows. As such, overbuilding shouldn’t be a huge concern.
Azure is the biggest growth driver for Microsoft right now, but it’s not the only one. As mentioned, that $368 billion backlog also includes commitments for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft’s other enterprise software and services. Those are getting a boost from AI as well, as Microsoft integrates its Copilot AI assistant into its software. That helps workers get more out of its products and increases productivity. As a result, Microsoft is able to charge more and gain bigger commitments from commercial customers.
Investors will have to pay a premium price to buy Microsoft stock. With a forward P/E ratio of 32, it trades for a much higher price than Alphabet, which sports a 23 multiple. It’s even approaching Amazon’s 34 times earnings multiple, despite the cloud computing leader historically trading for a much higher earnings multiple. But with a massive pipeline of long-term growth ahead for the company, it’s well worth paying up for.
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Both stocks have been flying high in the past year, but one of them looks like a much better buy right now.
The spending on artificial intelligence (AI) software and tools has been picking up momentum at a solid pace of late, and that’s not surprising as this technology is expected to deliver terrific productivity gains. According to McKinsey, AI has the potential to deliver $4.4 trillion worth of productivity gains in the long run.
Palantir Technologies (PLTR -2.04%) and BigBear.ai (BBAI 0.71%) are two companies that can help investors benefit from the massive generative AI software market that’s expected to clock a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 36% through 2030. But if you have to choose from one of these two AI stocks for your portfolio right now, which one should it be?
Let’s find out.
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The case for Palantir Technologies
Palantir is considered to be the leading player in the AI software platforms market by third-party research firms such as Forrester and IDC. That explains why the company has been landing new customers for its AI software solutions at a terrific clip.
Its overall customer count was up by 43% year over year in the second quarter of 2025. But more importantly, the productivity gains delivered by Palantir’s AI solutions are helping it expand its business with existing customers. As a result, the company’s deal size is improving, allowing it to close 157 deals worth at least $1 million last quarter. That was a jump of 64% from the year-ago period, exceeding the growth in its customer base.
It is easy to see why customers spend more money on Palantir’s AI software if we take a look at management’s comments on the recent earnings conference call. As pointed out by Chief Revenue Officer Ryan Taylor:
The impact our software is delivering for our customers as they cross the chasm is ever widening their advantage over the AI have-nots. Citibank shared that the customer onboarding process and relevant KYC and security checks that once took them nine days now take seconds. Fannie Mae recently announced they’re working with Palantir, decreasing the time to uncover mortgage fraud from two months down to seconds.
These are just two of the many examples highlighted by management about how its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) is helping it win more customers and strengthen its relationship with existing ones. As such, it won’t be surprising to see Palantir sustain its healthy growth rates following the 45% spike in revenue forecast for 2025.
Another important thing worth noting is that Palantir’s ability to gain more business from existing customers drives stronger bottom-line growth. Its earnings are expected to jump 57% this year to $0.64 per share, followed by impressive growth over the next couple of years as well.
Data by YCharts.
So, Palantir is likely to remain a top AI stock for a long time to come, thanks to the secular growth opportunity in the AI software market.
The case for BigBear.ai
Just like Palantir, BigBear.ai also provides AI software solutions that help its customers make faster and better decisions. The stock has more than tripled in value in the past year, as investors buy it in anticipation that it could become a big winner of the lucrative opportunity in the AI software market. However, investors can buy this stock at a much cheaper valuation despite its red-hot rally.
BigBear.ai stock trades at 9 times sales as compared to Palantir’s way more expensive price-to-sales ratio of 115. Another thing working in BigBear’s favor is its fast-growing revenue backlog that could lead to an acceleration in the company’s growth. It ended the second quarter with a backlog of $380 million, up by 43% from the year-ago period.
However, a closer look at BigBear.ai will tell us that the company’s growth is nowhere near that of Palantir’s. Its revenue slid 18% year over year in Q2 to $32.5 million, as it was unable to convert some of its Army contracts into revenue. This brings us to the reason why BigBear.ai has been in hot water of late.
The company relies on government contracts for a majority of its revenue. So, its business is dependent on government budgets and policies, which is why it was forced to lower its 2025 guidance when it released its Q2 results. Investors pressed the panic button, and BigBear.ai stock went into free-fall mode since the earnings’ release on Aug. 11.
The company’s updated revenue guidance of $132.5 million for 2025 would be lower than the $158 million in revenue it generated last year. Moreover, BigBear.ai’s backlog doesn’t necessarily guarantee that its growth will pick up due to certain caveats associated with that metric. As such, just because BigBear.ai is cheaper than Palantir doesn’t make it a better buy than the latter.
The verdict
Palantir, though extremely expensive right now, has the ability to justify its rich valuation thanks to its solid position in the fast-growing AI software space. The company is quickly building up a solid customer base and is also winning a bigger share of their wallets. That’s the reason why its forward sales multiples are significantly lower than the trailing multiple.
Data by YCharts.
So, investors looking to choose from one of these two AI stocks for their portfolio right now would be better off buying Palantir, given the company’s fast pace of growth and sunny prospects considering its leading position in the AI software market.
Citigroup is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Harsh Chauhan has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Palantir Technologies. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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