Month: February 2025

Elon Musk launches an unexpected offer to acquire OpenAI for almost 100,000 million dollars

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He already did it in April 2022 When he offered to buy 100% Twittermovement that ended up specifying In October of that same year after several ideas and coming. Elon Musk gets back in the center of the scene, this time with an unexpected Acquisition offer directed towards OpenAIone of the most important artificial intelligence (AI) companies. As the Wall Street Journal collectsthe businessman leads an investor consortium to buy the organization behind Chatgpt for 97.4 billion dollars. The proposal, which has a hostile nature because it comes without prior negotiation between both parties, has been presented this Monday before the Board of Directors of the company led by Sam Altman. “It’s time for Openai to force the open source And focused on the security that once was, ”said Musk in a statement released by his lawyer Marc Uberooff. The Tesla CEO, which was co -founder of OpenAi, retired from the startup in 2018 and Last year he sued her By, according to him, to have betrayed its foundational principles by moving away from its open approach. In development. Images: Ted Conference In Xataka | OpenAi wants to make the leap to the general public. That is why 14 million dollars have been spent to advertise in the Super Bowl

There is a 2% probability that the asteroid impact the earth, but we will not know how much it measures until the webb observes it

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He Asteroid 2024 YR4 He has aroused unusual interest since his discovery on December 27. Although the probability of impact with the earth remains very low, has risen from 1 to 2% As new observations are obtained. However, astronomers are having difficulty measuring their size and have decided to resort to the most powerful space telescope in history to get out of doubt. There is a problem in how an asteroid is measured. Until now, the size estimates of 2024 YR4 have oscillated between 40 and 90 meters in diameter, a too wide range to assess the danger that would represent an eventual impact with our planet. This lack of precision has a reason and is that The size of the asteroid is calculated from the reflected visible lighta method that depends on the reflectivity of its surface. 2024 YR4 could be an object of 40 meters very reflective or an object of 90 meters very dark. As well as any intermediate option. The James Webb space telescope to the rescue. Unlike other observatories, The 10,000 million dollar telescopeoperated by NASA, ESA and the Canadian space agency, does not observe the visible spectrum, but the infrared spectrum, and with an unprecedented sensitivity. Astronomers will allocate hours of webb use to analyze the infrared light emitted by the asteroid to obtain a more precise measurement of its size and temperature. With luck, it will allow them to discern whether 2024 YR4 is at the lower or upper end of the estimated range, crucial information to better evaluate the consequences of their unlikely but possible impact. Two rounds of observation are planned. Space agencies have foreseen Two rounds of crucial observations With the Webb Telescope. The first will take place in early March, when the asteroid is at its point of greatest brightness and visibility for the telescope. The second round, scheduled for May, will allow scientists to study how the object temperature varies as it moves away from the sun, in addition to continuing to obtain data on its trajectory when the object has ceased to be visible by terrestrial telescopes. Why fluctuate the probability of impact. The 2% estimate is the most up -to -date ES has provided so far (NASA publishes a 2.1% estimate). The figure varies constantly because the calculations have been incorporating new observations that reduce the uncertainty of their trajectory. These fluctuations are, in fact, typical behavior in the estimation of the impact risk of newly discovered objects. NASA planetary defense equipment and ESA are based on orbital dynamic systems (such as Scout, Sentry, Meerkat and Aegis) that generate multiple possible trajectories for the asteroid. As less likely orbits are discarded, targeting on Earth may increase the fraction of possible impacts, although, over time, additional observations allow the threat to definitively discard. If this were not the case with 2024 YR4, we would be talking about a meteorite that could fall in countries as populated as Colombia, Nigeria or India on January 22, 2032. Then we would start talking about a mission to divert it, a task in the that We already have some practice. Image | Two of the 18 mirrors of the Webb Telescope (NASA/C. GUNN) In Xataka | The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has risen to 1.6%. The UN has already activated a special protocol

Now consider buying the landfill

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James Howells is convinced that somewhere in a Newport landfill in Wales, there is a hard drive with more than 700 million euros in Bitcoins that belong to him. The storage unit ended in the garbage more than a decade ago, when the British discarded it by error in 2013. When the City Council learned of the case months later, made clear that Rescuing the hard drive would have required acting quickly. Because? Because every day that passed it meant more layers of waste and land accumulating on the lost device, further making possible recovery. Decades after a lost treasure It is not known with certainty when Howells submitted a formal request to look for the hard drive on the landfill, But Wired reported in 2017 that local authorities They had denied access. While his fortune continued to grow, the hard drive was increasingly buried under tons of waste. In recent years, the British has not stopped insisting, although without success. He got sponsors to cover the expenses of the taskswhich could extend for several months. In addition, he promised to donate 10% of the bitcoins recovered to the City Council if he achieved their goal. But the rejection was categorical again and again. The Council cited several arguments, including such activities would have a negative environmental impact and that, probably, the device would already be in unusable condition. Before the refusal, Howells sued the Newport City Council last year. The plaintiff’s attempt to offer a reward in Bitcoins was considered a “bribe” towards the City Council. Finally, the case was elevated to the Superior Court, that ended up dismissing it. Judge Keyer KC said approximately a month ago that the claim had no “realistic successful perspectives.” Everything seemed to indicate that the millionaire without his millions had lost any possibility of acting. However, an unexpected movement has given him a new opportunity. Newport has announced plans to close the landfill and turn part of the land On a solar farm. Howells has acted immediately. One of the obstacles of his search mission was that the landfill would have to close for several months, something that the City Council considered harmful to the inhabitants of the place. Now things seem to be changing, and there is a certain halo of hope for the insistent resident. “If the Newport City Council was arranged, it would potentially be interested in Buy the landfill ‘As is’, and I have discussed this option with investor partners. It is something that is very on the table, ”said Howells on Monday. Touch to wait to know if this time the affected will succeed in their attempt. Images | James Howells (Instagram) + Photoshop | KANCHANARA In Xataka | Loans with cryptocurrencies arrive as a guarantee. As a mortgage, but with Bitcoins instead of real estate

To survive in Europe, our Paleolithic ancestors turned to an extreme practice: cannibalism

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More and more evidence is that our ancestors resorted, at least occasionally, to cannibalism. We are not speaking in this case of other human species, such as Neanderthals, who could have practiced dozens or hundreds of thousands of years but also Homo sapiensthat had already become the only humans in Europe and the rest of the world. New tests. A recent study led by researchers from the Catalan Institut of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolved (IPHES-CERCA) He has shown New indications of cannibalism among humans. They found them in the Polish site of the Maszycka cave, whose remains would go back about 18,000 years ago. Europe in the Magdaleniense. This places the finding in the context of the Magdalenian period in Europe. This period that owes its name to the French site of the Madeleine covers various European settlements between 19,000 and 14,000 years old, they explain in An article for The conversation Some of the members of the study responsible for the study: Francesc Marginedas Miró, Antonio Rodriguez-Hidalgo and Palmira Saladié Ballesté, researchers from the IPHES-CERCA and CSIC. The period follows an era of important changes in Europe, mainly derived from the end of the last era era. The ice setback left behind an ideal environment for a change in ecosystems, and with it the expansion to the north of modern humans. From burial to the table. As the team continues, the Magdaleniense, to others of his cave paintings, also stands out for careful funeral rites, burials “with care and offerings”, at least for some of his dead. Because to others what expected them was the flint of the tools with which they were expired. 63 bones. The new analysis studied more than fifty remains found in the Polish Cave of Maszycka, located near Cracovia. They belonged to half a dozen individuals, both adults and children. The remains found together with animal remains and many with signs of having been manipulated. Despite this, the hypothesis that this manipulation responded to simple funeral rites had not been ruled out. The new analysis has incorporated new 3D microscopy techniques in the study of brands, which has allowed distinguishing brands caused by humans from others, such as those that would have caused other carnivores. “The location and frequency of cutting marks and intentional fracturing in skelet added in a press release Marginedas. The details of the work were published In an article In the magazine Scientific Reports. To the core. The study revealed other details that can give us some clues of the context in which this consumption of human flesh was produced. For example, the team points out, the bodies were prosecuted shortly after death, thus avoiding the decomposition of tissues. In Xataka | We have been looking for the mysterious ancestor town of the Indo -Europeans. We have a new track in DNA Image | IPhes-Cerca

Energy generation and storage

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2024 was not a good year for Tesla. Or, at least, it was not the best in terms of electric car sales. For the first time, the company He sold less cars electric that the previous exercise despite stepping on the accelerator at the end of the year to improve the figures. The forecasts in November They already pointed to a stagnation in the growth that ended up confirming when presenting results at the end of the year. But this is as long as we focus on the sale of cars. Tesla has long boiled have opened your business lines. In fact, Elon Musk has repeated by active and passive that The software will be a central leg of your future and has even claimed that there are conversations with third parties to provide them with their technology. The Robotaxi and the Driverless Travel Business It is the other great promise. But among all these more striking businesses, among those who occupy headlines, there is a highly profitable Tesla activity that, however, we usually ignore: energy. Tesla and a business that does not make noise As when we started discovering the Huge performance that Amazon takes out its servers (Although that has not prevented They will join the wave of layoffs last year), 2024 has been the confirmation that Tesla has a huge business related to energy, both to its generation and storage. If we attend to the Tesla income Due to the generation and storage of energy, the company reported in its annual results an income of 3,061 million dollars in the last quarter of 2024. Growth is 113% If compared to the same period last year but, in addition, it is huge if we compare it with the results obtained this year. In the first quarter of 2024, Tesla entered 1,635 million dollars in this game and shot up to 3,014 million dollars in Q2. Although he reduced his income in the third quarter, adding 2,376 million dollars, he grew again above 3,000 million dollars in revenues in the last quarter, as we said. If we look at the annual photography, Tesla has added 10,086 million dollars in revenues originated with energy generation and storage. It is 67% more than in 2023 (6,035 million dollars) and is completely away from the 1,994 million dollars collected in 2020. Since then, the growth has been sustained to exceed 10,000 million dollars of the previous year. In the last year, energy production and storage has only given good news to Tesla. Last year, its gross benefit increased to 2.6 billion dollars (compared to the 1,100 million dollars of 2023) as a result of exploiting a business with very wide profit margins. In fact, while the company has played with the profit margins it had in the production of vehicles to tighten competition by reducing prices, this aspect has not stopped improving in the production of batteries to store electricity and in the production of the same Already in summer, Bloomberg This business highlighted as the most profitable in Tesla. Then, its profit margin was approaching 25%, compared to vehicles that fell for the first time below 20%when in 2022 it far exceeds 30%. This cost and the increase in benefits has been intimately linked to Fiscal advantages provided for in the Inflation Reduction Lawthe Law designed by Joe Biden To attract the production of different products to the country, including electric cars and favor a transition to cleaner energy. These good results come hand in hand with Powerwall and the Megapack. The first of these products is designed for small -scale electric power storage, at the residential level. Megapack, however, is the system used to store large -scale energy, such as a large company. In both cases they play with the modularity and the ability to adapt to the needs of the client. According to Tesla accounts, in 2024 they managed to produce energy storage system with a total capacity of 31.4 GWh. There are three quarters of the amount that the Volkswagen group wants to generate in its Sagunto plant, in Valencia. But the amount is very significant because the growth with respect to 2023 is 114% (14.7 GWh in 2023). In addition, in 2025 they hope to shoot income for this business. MEGAFACTORRY will work since February 11 In Shanghai, the plant dedicated to producing megapacks in China. They hope to achieve a rhythm of 10,000 megapacks per year which would mean 40 GWh. That is, with the plant to full performance they will greatly fold the results obtained this year. In Forbes They ensure that it is complicated that the production of energy storage systems gain weight within the company at the income level but seeing the huge benefit margins obtained and with a greater demand for electricity on the horizon, it is expected that this business will be nods as essential when presenting results every year. Photo | Tesla In Xataka | Europe’s anger with Elon Musk grows like foam. Tesla pays the consequences with sales falls of up to 75%

They are 25.5 hours on average

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Labor productivity has become In a topic of debate before the imminence of the arrival of the reduction of the working day at 37.5 hours per week. However, much more important than the legal amount of hours that form the working day, it is What are those hours used. A recent study of the Ringover Business Software Platform has discovered that employees are only really productive for an average of five hours and six minutes of their day. Being at work is not working. He study It was made on a sample of 1,063 Spanish adults between 18 and 70 years. Their conclusions suggest that the Spaniards only take advantage of 63.75% of a 40 -hour workday, with an average of five hours and six minutes dedicated exclusively to productive tasks related to their work. Among employee groups, women are more productive than men with an average of 36 minutes of daily work. By age range, employees between 44 and 59 are the ones who waste less time during their working days, reaching days with a real productivity time above six hours a day. The least productive is the range between 28 and 43, with four hours and 58 minutes of effective work. Not remote or face -to -face. The study highlights that employees with Hybrid working days They are the ones who claimed to take advantage of their day, with an average productivity of five hours and 36 minutes. Against all forecast, face -to -face employees did not exceed that time, registering an average of five hours and 12 minutes of real work, while workers with 100% remote days They recognized being the most inefficient With an average of four hours and 36 minutes. Again, the veteran factor also has influence on the best use of time. The most committed to their workday are the owners of the businesses or high -ranking managers, with six hours and 12 minutes of real work daily, followed by Senior employees and Junior with just under five hours and 28 minutes. The least productive proved to be intermediate controlswith only 4 hours and 48 minutes daily used in their respective works. Most common distractions. According to the responses obtained, navigating the Internet doing personal searches is the activity that occupies the most real work time. Employees dedicate 56 minutes a day in it, followed by talking to family and friends (55 minutes) or chatting with other colleagues not related to work (52 minutes). Review social networks during the working day consumes 50 minutes of time, while look at the vacuum dreaming It occupies an average of 46 minutes a day among the respondents. Paradoxically, many employees use an average of 43 minutes a day looking for another job, instead of doing their job. What motivates this low productivity? 46% of the employees surveyed claimed that this low productivity was due to the end of their work With enough timeand used excess time to carry out personal or unrelated activities to their employment. 76.8% of respondents claimed to have had Problems to concentrate At work, and 28.8% say they often suffer or always these concentration problems During your workday. 62% ensure that sometimes or often they feel concerned about their work performance. At the opposite end, 25.7% say they do not feel guilty at all with personal activities during their workday. In Xataka | ANDl 80% of online purchases are made during working hours and the data point to a suspect: the gene generation Image | Unspash (Studio Republic)

In a strange turn of events, Jesús Calleja will be the third Spaniard in history to travel to space

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The television presenter Jesús Calleja will travel to space in a Blue Origin ship, the Jeff Bezos Aerospace Company. Tells it in A new documentary called ‘Calleja in space’which has already released two episodes in Amazon Prime Video waiting for its launch in the New Shepard rocket. The space flight does not yet have an assigned date, but it will be broadcast live in Telecinco. The launch of Jesús Calleja. The famous Spanish adventurer has an assigned seat in a New Shepard mission in Blue Origin. Presumably the NS-30, which although it has not been announced, is the following mission in the calendar. The New Shepard is a 15 -meter high suborbital rocket (18 with the spacecraft in which passengers go). Although he is not able to put the capsule into orbit, it was the first rocket in the world that He managed to demonstrate a propulsive landingwhich has allowed Blue Origin to offer a regular space tourism service for millionaires. How will the flight be. The New Shepard will take off from Texas. Calleja and five other travelers will access the capsule at the top of the rocket along the launch tower stairs. The rocket will take off and accelerate to overcome the Kárman line, the most accepted border between the earth and the outer space, 100 kilometers above sea level. While the rocket returns to the surface to land, the ship separates and makes a parable in space during which travelers experience about three minutes of microgravity and enjoy panoramic views of the earth. Next, the capsule begins its atmospheric reentry and opens the parachutes to land, 11 minutes after takeoff. The third Spanish in space. Once you cross the line of Kárman, Jesús Calleja will become the third Spaniard to have traveled to space. The first two Spaniards to achieve this were: Pedro Duque: As astronaut of ESA in 1998, aboard the discovery space ferry, and 2003, aboard a Soyuz ship Michael López-Elegría: as NASA astronaut in 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2009, and as Axiom private astronaut In 2022 and 2024 Pablo Álvarez, career astronaut in ESA since 2022it has not yet flown to space, but it is planned to do so for a mission of six months before 2030. Sara García, reserve astronaut in ESA of the same promotionit could also be called for a shorter mission, such as those of Axiom. How much has the flight cost. The cost per seat of a New Shepard space tourism mission is confidential and surely varies from customer to customer. That said, there was a specific figure that ended up leaking thanks to a transaction made by crypto. Moundao, an organization to “decentralize access to space”, moved 2.5 million dollars in cryptocurrencies To pay two seats aboard the New Shepard. That is: he paid 1.25 million dollars per seat. The first was used by Coby Cotton, of the YouTube channel ‘Dude Perfect’, on the NS-22 Mission of August 2022. The second, by the cardiologist Eiman Jahangir during the NS-26 mission August 2024. Two points. Most likely, Jesús Calleja has not paid the space flight of his pocket, or ruined along the way to his producer, Zanskar Productions. The documentary is co -produced by Mediaset Spain and It is broadcast in Amazon Prime Video streamingwhere it has other sponsors, such as Generali. Maybe Prime Video has been able to access a lower price than usual for the Calleja seat in exchange for all this advertising, but does not have to. Blue Origin is a private company that is only linked to Amazon for being owned by Jeff Bezos, also the founder of the technological giant. Image | Prime video In Xataka | If the space industry wants to democratize tourism, it must overcome several challenges. Like space smells good

The five second rule

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One of the greatest enemies for him Teleworking and productivity It is procrastination. There is always a good reason to postpone whatever you have to do. The bad is that all those tasks are then piled up In an endless list and anxiety, stress and regret of not having done it when you had time. Is that situation familiar to you? Although it is likely that better way to avoid procrastination Be a break Before starting a new task, leaving things for the last moment is a bad habit that, like weeds, should be cut off as soon as possible. You only need five seconds to take the first step and avoid it. Account with me: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 … do it! The five -second rule may seem somewhat child take away the bad habit of procrastination. Its application is as simple as starting a countdown from five when you have to start a new task. When you get to one, not think about it and start doing it immediately. The scientific data demonstrate You shouldn’t think about it, just start doing it. Australian entrepreneur Tim Denning explained that this technique had helped her face to his bad habit to leave and then the tasks. “This technique helps you avoid postponement and overcome your fear of making a bad decision,” explained the entrepreneur A NBC News. The technique was first coined by the lecturer, creator of the podcast The Mel Robbins Podcast and author of the book ‘THE POWER OF THE 5 SECONDS: Be brave on a day to day and transform your life‘. Robbins ensures that the way to get out of that emotional and mental paralysis that blocks you and prevents progress begins by the five second rule. You have to prevent the brain from taking the initiative trying to find all kinds of excuses and, instead, take control by action. In Your Ted talkthe author explains how this “hacke” method Psychology experts call Activation energy. Motivation provides people with an “energy” that does not suppose any effort to do things. When You are motivated in a topic that interests you You don’t mind spending hours looking for information or learning new skills. But when it comes to doing something routine that energy disappears and it costs much more to begin to do so. That is the main ally of procrastination. With the five second rule, the opportunity is not given to the brain, it will simply be involved in a task that has already begun and subconsciously acquire the commitment to finish it. It’s like starting a car without drums pushing it down a downhill when inertia limps, ends up. According to Robbins, the key is to prevent your mental habits from taking control and canceling the initial instinct of performing a task. You must move physically Before five seconds or your brain will eliminate it. If you are on the couch and you have to finish a task, Don’t think about it: Count back and get up immediately or your brain will find a thousand and one convincing reasons not to do it. Spoiler: You will end up doing it, but with stress and anxiety. “When you act with courage, your brain is not involved, your heart speaks first and listen. You face stress,” says the productivity expert, getting a double effect. On the one hand, the rapid action part of the brain that implies the instinctive decision to get up and start doing something is activated. On the other hand, expert highlights that the influence of the slow acting of the brain is limited, the most rational that analyzes and seeks self -imposed reasons for the bad habit of postponing tasks. The benefit of this technique not only contributes adoption of good habitsbut it also helps you change the neurolinguistic programming of the brain by reducing the Importor syndrome. At the beginning of the action immediately, there is no option to the brain of raising internal debates and insecurities about what you can do or not. You can do it because, in fact, you are already doing it at that moment. In Xataka | Non -procrastin because you are a vague, it’s your body by asking you to stop Image | VITALY GARIEV *An earlier version of this article was published in January 2024

A study has estimated Chatgpt’s energy cost. According to its conclusions, it is not as apocalyptic as it appears

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Chatgpt at 3 WHating. In October 2023 A study Alex de Vries pointed out that a Chatgpt consultation had an estimated energy cost of 3 Wh. His estimate came from comments from Google, whose managers indicated that Chatgpt’s consumption was “probably” 10 times that of a search. And Google herself had revealed that in 2009 each search was 0.3 Wh, and hence the final figure. De Vries, by the way, has previously published another study in which he warned of the worrying bitcoin mining energy consumption. From Vries, yes, he took reference that the average consultations were about 4,000 input tokens and 2,000 output, which would be equivalent to quite long questions and answers, when it is normal to make them shorter. Efficiency gains whole. Throughout that time many things have changed, both for Google – whose results and infrastructure are very different from that of 15 years ago – and for Chatgpt, which has also gained whole efficiency. It is very likely that Google consultations are now more efficient, but surely those that are also those of Chatgpt and other chatbots. A new estimate. Epoch AI is a non -profit organization that among other things is responsible for the creation of the Benchmark FrontierMath. This test tries to assess the mathematical computing capacity of AI models, and has become one of the most interesting metrics for its difficulty. Your researchers have now published a study in which they precisely estimate the energy consumption of a chatgpt consultation. Chatgpt consumes ten times less than what was thought. According to its conclusions, Chatgpt consultations based on the LLM GPT-4O consume about 0.3 watts-room, which is ten times less than what was previously considered. That 0.3 Wh “calculation is in fact relatively pessimistic, and it is possible that many or most requests are even cheaper.” How they have done the calculation. In Epoch they have been based on known data for their calculations. Thus, they point out that according to Openai a Token equals approximately 0.75 words and that generating a token costs approximately 2 flops. Taking into account the calculation capacity of the GPUS NVIDIA H100 (989 TFLOPS in TF32, 67 Tlops in FP32 Operations) and their consumption (1500 W, although they consider that they actually consume 70% of that average power), the result It is the aforementioned. Everything has improved. As we pointed out, in Epoch AI, they emphasize that the difference between this estimate and the previous Until better multiply. In addition, in the previous estimate “there was an excessively pessimistic count of the necessary tokens.” How much are 0.3 Wh? They are equivalent to less than the amount of electricity than a LED bulb or a laptop consume “in a few minutes.” According to the Energy Information Administration of the United States, an average home there consumes 10,500 kWh per year, that is, about 28,000 Wh a day. Even an intensive use of chatgpt does not seem excessively to influence that consumption. Reason consumes more. Although they take GPT-4O as a reference, they make it clear that using reasoning models such as O1 or O3-mini requires more energy consumption, but for the moment they are less popular. And train the models, too. These researchers have also highlighted the energy cost of training models such as GPT-4O, which according to their estimates would have been between 20 and 25 MW in a period of three months. That would be equivalent to some 20,000 middle homes in the US. The general costs are worrisome. Although the data in this study reveal that using chatgpt does not consume as much energy as previously estimated, the problem may be another. The general energy costs of AI are colossal and aim to be much higher in the short term: the Big Tech fever for investing tens of billions of dollars to build data centers. And he does it because all these data centers will have huge needs at the energy level. Eye: Let’s not forget the air conditioning. Image | Xataka with Freepik Pikaso In Xataka | The amazing history of ARM, the architecture that triumphs on the mobile and that was born more than 30 years ago in Acorn Computer

Rural Spain produces more energy than consumes. And in Teruel it is already proposed to take the VAT of the electricity there

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In a recent report, the Ember Analysis Agency has demonstrated that the total electric production of Spain is 60.2%. However, the generation and distribution of energy are not equal throughout the country, and in the community of Aragon they know well. Proposition. The Aragón-teruel parliamentary group exists has registered A proposition of law in the autonomous chamber so that the collection of VAT obtained from the electricity companies is redistributed to compensate for the territories according to their energy production. The parliamentary spokesman for this training in a press conference, Tomás Guitarte, He explained that this initiative aims to compensate for those areas that produce more electricity than they consume. In his statements he has exposed the case of Aragon, which generates 9% of the country’s energy, but consumes only 4%. However, he added that with the current VAT to 21% and a forecast of 2,000 million euros, he would correspond about 180 million. Previously. The proposal has a historical basis, since it is inspired by the fee created in 1981, which compensated for the territories sacrificed in the production of electricity before being replaced by VAT in 1986. In addition, the law seeks to promote the well -being and development of The regions that generate energy, not only from the economic point of view, but also with a vision of territorial justice, where environmental and landscape impacts are compensated by the benefits generated by the energy transition. To Congress. The proposition of the law has been registered in the courts of Aragon and is protected in the Article 292 of the Regulation of the Courts of Aragon and in him Article 87 of the Constitution. This allows the proposal to be raised to the Congress of Deputies, where it would be processed if it exceeds the procedures in the Autonomous Courts. Once approved by the regional government and taken to Plenary, if accepted, it would go to Congress for processing. This proposal does not imply the creation of a new tax, but a redistribution of electric VAT income. The core of the problem. A couple of months ago, Aragon tried keep their surplusesbut the Constitutional Court stopped him. This situation reflects a broader imbalance which affects many producing communities, whose energy surplus is directed towards other regions of the country, generating tensions about the control and distribution of these resources. For that reason, there is a distancing between urban and rural areas In energy terms. While cities are provided with more energy and do not have the same installed infrastructure, rural areas have to live with large -scale facilities, thus generating an environmental impact and an imbalance in the territory. For example, Madrid only produces 4.8% of the energy that consumes and depends on territories such as Extremadura that produces an energy surplus of 423%. The next steps. The proposal is already in the Courts of Aragon and, after its approval by the regional government, it will be taken to the plenary. If approved, it will go to Congress for processing, which could take several months. Meanwhile, Aragon-teruel exists continues to struggle to ensure that energy producing communities receive fair compensation for the sacrifices they make. Image | Unspash and Unspash Xataka | In a town in Badajoz they have encountered a strength of 5,000 years ago. And a Roman with a suspicious burial

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