Month: September 2025

This is the economy of the YouTube star

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Jordi Wild is one of the most prominent content creators in Spanish speech. In the non -quantifiable part, your podcast ‘The Wild Project’ is tremendously influentialand generate millions of viewers and listen every month. However, there is not so much talk about the Jordi Wild entrepreneur, which has managed to build an authentic empire. Your figure It is not far from the controversy and the controversybut the numbers are indisputable: Jordi is doing well. An unstoppable ascent. The YouTuber and Podcasts created its YouTube channel ‘in 2013The Rincón de Giorgio‘, initially with a content very similar to that of others of his time: gameplaysreaction and parodies videos. But soon he cultivated it with a more personal content: current debates, criminal psychology … in 2020 he started with ‘The Wild Project’, which currently On YouTube It approaches the 7 million subscribers, and more than 95,000 in podimo. Its impact is reflected in the waves that it won last year and also in its accounts, deposited in the Mercantile Registry and have analyzed In digital economy. The numbers. In 2024, his company Project Entertainment reached a turnover of 2.4 million euros, which represents a growth of no less than 40% compared to 1.7 million 2023. Translation: benefits of 1.35 million, with an increase close to 20% compared to the previous year, where 1.1 million was reached. There is another way of saying it: Mercadona’s net benefit is 4%, Inditex’s 15%, Jordi Wild’s 56%. The comparison is unfair, of course: the business volume is neither remotely comparable and Jordi Wild has much more growth space than these consolidated companies, but the comparison makes sense in terms of business. And more numbers. Project Entertainment is in Manresa, and in 2024 he contributed 114,945 euros in taxes on benefits, approximately 8% of his profits before taxes. Of these benefits, Wild allocated 344,000 euros additional to voluntary reserves to strengthen heritage and withdrew 1,007 million in dividends, in compensation for his work. The company has a net assets of 1.9 million euros, with a short -term debt of 209,000 euros. Total assets reach 2.14 million euros, highlighting 1.7 million in cash and other liquid assets, along with 200,000 euros in financial investments. Where does that money come from? It is estimated that ‘The Wild Project’ generates monthly income of between 200,000 and 300,000 euros, equivalent to more than 8,000 euros per day. This project is one of your company’s main financial engines. Jordi Wild counted on The podcast ‘The Yellow Placita’ that “right now I have annual sponsorships (Thanks to those who) There may be months between 200,000 and 300,000 euros. (…) All this talking about ‘The Wild Project’, which has been catapulted economically because it is very well paid. “ Not everything is glory. Of course, not everything is profits in Jordi Wild’s emporium. There have been projects that They have not come forward and that he has had to freeze, as an idea for an indie horror video game whose development was arrested for a disagreement between him and the study that was programming him. Or the Dogfight Wild Tournament 3, the fighting tournament without rules that raised and cost about 800,000 euros, of which the youtuber recovered just over half for sales and sponsorships, thus registering The greatest economic loss of his career. In Xataka | Jpelirrojo and Soyunapringada have starred in some of the most notorious internet Broks. And they have started again

Chery trusted Spain to assault the European market without tariffs. Europe has another opinion

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Europe, China and cars. A bomb that, for now, has resulted in the imposition of tariffs on the electric car. The European objective is that Chinese manufacturers invest in Europe if they want to sell their electric cars at the price that pleases them. Chery thought that Spain would be his gateway to the market of our continent. The European Commission believes that it is not enough. “It’s not a good model”. The definition is by the Executive Vice President of the Commission for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy, Stéphane Séjourné. The Frenchman expressed in these terms collected by The newspaperwhile ensuring that relations between China and Europe are “in the midst of nowhere.” What is about the model that Chery has implemented in Barcelona, ​​a factory where, at least for the moment, only cars that previously arrive mounted from China are completed. It is the easiest way to put the label Made in Spain to a product that, in reality, has very little of Spanish. DKD. Or, what is the same, Direct Knock Down. This is what the way of working is called that Chery employ in Barcelona. In summary, cars arrive in semi -ado containers and the only thing that is done in Spain is to finish marrying the last parts as if they were the four large groups of pieces of a puzzle that, in reality, is made up of thousands of them. The process is so advanced that, in fact, cars in Barcelona are not even painted. The intention, in the future, is to jump to the CKD (Complete Knock Down), in which the pieces do not arrive welded or painted but do produce entirely in China. The cars produced under this system are the Ebro that, although rescue the name of a Spanish brand, They are actually entirely Chinese. “Low quality”. In his statements, Séjourné, has insisted that “a factory on the outskirts of Barcelona in which a car occurs with all Chinese components generates Low quality jobs And it does not suppose any added value for the European industry. “And he emphasizes:” The solution does not go on to maintain tariffs, but neither by a factory in Barcelona in which cars are assembled with all Chinese components. “ Although hard, the words of the vice president of the commission are not new in the car market. In fact, Chery had already received Europe’s notice that, working in this way would not free him from tariffs to his electric cars. At the moment, the Omoda 5 and Jaecoo 7 They continue to arrive from China but as they have combustion engines they are not taxed with tariffs. The electric omoda 5, however, is punished with a fee that in the case of Chery reaches 21% (which adds to 10% base for all cars from China, electric and non -electric). It is no accident that the company has delayed its incorporation to the Catalan plant without the confirmation of taking out its cars through the doors of the free zone without being punished with tariffs. “In nobody’s land”. As we said, Séjourné pointed out that negotiations between Europe and China are stopped. In his day, Europe taxed tariffs on Chinese electric cars but left the door open to those who take combustion engines, both pure and plug -in hybrids. This was seen as a hand tended to negotiation. Not imposing tariffs on this type of cars has allowed Chinese brands to have taken advantage of the entrance door of countries where cheaper cars are bought, such as Spain. In fact, Chery herself with just six cars in the market (distributed between Ebro, Omoda and Jaecoo) They already add more than 19,800 units In the first eight months of the year. And only three of those six cars have been selling the full year. That open door to a negotiation seemed to consolidate a few months ago. In April it was confirmed that Europe and China seemed willing to reach some kind of agreement between the two countries. The last thing we have known since then have been these last statements. They are not the only. What Europe wants is that Chinese manufacturers invest in our continent and generate business here. To skip those tariffs, everything indicates that companies have to assemble their cars in our soil but also generate a local industry that generates value through the Component provision. This way of acting by Chinese manufacturers is not something exclusive that they do in Europe. Byd is used very similarly in Thailand. But European manufacturers are also used in the same way in those markets that are veiled with tariffs, as happens in Algeria. Country that, tired of these practices, has already warned Renault that they will have to invest more money. Photo | Ebro In Xataka | That Chery has chosen Spain is not accidental: it may be its saving letter to the investigations of the European Commission

An educational plan asked to transform teaching with AI. The problem is that it brought a dozen invented sources

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The story has some irony: a report of more than 400 pages about education, which took a year and a half to be written in a province of Canada, has been uncovered with a crack difficult to repair. According to CBC Newsthe document contains a variety of false sources, from alleged academic articles to a film that never existed. The contradiction is striking: a text designed to guide schools and universities in times of AI, indicated precisely for an error that reminds of the “hallucinations” of the generative models themselves. What has happened exactly. The document in question is titled ‘A VISION FOR THE FUTURE: TRANS Transforming and Modernizing Education‘. It was presented at the end of August as a ten -year roadmap to transform public and university education into Terranova and Labrador. Its launch was accompanied by great expectations: to serve as a guide for the future of the education system in a province that seeks to adapt to the digital age and the challenges of artificial intelligence. What was not expected is that, after its publication, it would be discovered that at least fifteen of its bibliographic references do not exist. We can find titles impossible to locate in academic databases and that, in some cases, seem copied to fictional examples used in style guides. This finding opened an immediate debate about the reliability of the report and on the supervision of the process that led to its writing. Official reactions contained. The Department of Education recognized the existence of a small number of possible errors in the appointments and assured that they will be corrected in the online version. One of the co -author, Karen Goodnough, just pointed out in an email to the aforementioned medium that “references are being investigated and reviewed, without giving interviews with local media. Today, however, access to the report itself has been complicated: the original link in which it was published He no longer shows it and returns an error 404. Only remains visible in a filed copy. Invented appointments. Among the most striking examples is the mention of an alleged 2008 film produced by the National Film Board, entitled ‘Schoolyard Games’. The agency itself confirmed that this work never existed. The reference, however, appears in the report with all the details of a real bibliographic record, as if it were a verifiable source. The track led to discover something even more disturbing: The appointment matches word by word with an entry included in a university style guide used as a model to write bibliographies. That manual explicitly warns that many of its references are fictitious and are designed only as examples. Despite this, some ended up integrated in the final document as if they were authentic. It is striking because the document not only speaks of AI, but also reserves a specific chapter: use it to customize the teaching, support teachers and simplify administrative processes, while driving competencies in AI, responsible practices and protection of privacy. In its “Calls to Transformion” it proposes to modernize the school system and prepare students for a digital environment where these technologies will be part of the day to day. Was the generative used? The finding of false quotes opened another inevitable question: to what extent did artificial intelligence intervene in the preparation of the report? According to CBC News, some teachers fear that these references have been created with a language model, since these types of systems usually generate plausible titles that do not actually exist, but for now there are no conclusive evidence. Images | Steven Binotto | Screen capture In Xataka | Jensen Huang, Bill Gates and other CEO are clear: the AI ​​has opened the door to the three -day work week

one million terabytes and 24,000 nvidia chips for a key mission

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In an increasingly digitized world and where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work, investigate and relate, the supercomputing has established itself as the rod of measure technological power. It is a strategic resource that allows us to accelerate advances in science, innovation and defense. Not all super -taders play in the same league. Frontierof the United States Department of Energy, marked a milestone in 2022 by becoming the first to officially overcome the exaescala barrier, with 1,102 Exaflops in the Benchmark HPL. To that achievement they joined later The Captain and Auroraalso on American soil, consolidating its leadership position on paper. In the case of China, the information remains opaque, With very few public data about the status of their projects. Europe, however, just moved. Your first superorous to exaescala is already underway: Jupiter. Installed in the Jülich Supercomputing Centerin Germany, one of the most important advanced research poles of the continent. Jupiter is driven by the platform Nvidia Grace Hopper And Evidan xh3000 Bullsequana architecture is based on a liquid -refrigerated system designed to squeeze efficiency and performance. It is expected to reach up to 90 exaflops in artificial intelligence loads. Their applications will be diverse: from climatic research to neuroscience and quantum simulation, placing Europe in a new calculation capacity league. An inauguration with historical air September 5 The official inauguration ceremony in Jülich took placewith the presence of German authorities, European and leaders of the technology industry. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz presented him as a Pioneer project for Europe. “With Jupiter, Germany now has the fastest supercomputer in Europe and the fastest room in the world. Open completely new possibilities, from the training of AI models to scientific simulations.” In the Top500 list, Jupiter already appears as the fourth Most powerful supercomputer in the world, only behind the Captain, Frontier and Aurora in the United States. The European Union stands outIn addition, what works entirely with renewable energyby hiring green supply on the German network, and that its Rack Jedi leads the Green500 energy efficiency classification. The figures behind Jupiter To understand its magnitude, just review some technical data: 24,000 superchips nvidia gh200 grace hopper 51,000 network connections with infiniband quantum-2 technology Storage capacity close to an exabyte Modular installation with 50 specialized containers Maximum consumption of 17 MW, equivalent to about 11,000 homes A rack called Jedi leads the World Energy Efficiency Classification Why is it relevant to Europe Europe had been behind in the supercomputing career for years, with a landscape dominated by the United States. JUPITER offers researchers, companies and academic centers direct access to a top -level machine without depending on external resources. This means forming their own talent, consolidating experience in the management of these systems and reinforcing technological sovereignty at a time when artificial intelligence and calculation capacity have become strategic issues. Concrete applications The first projects already selected show how far a supercomputer of this category can go: Climate: The ECMWF works with a kilometer scale simulations, capable of representing extreme storms and feeding the Destination Earth project, whose objective is to build digital twins of the planet European: The Trustllm consortium trains language models in multiple European languages ​​for industrial and scientific applications Neuroscience: With the arbor simulator, neurons behavior will be modeled at the subcellular level, key to developing therapies against diseases such as Alzheimer’s Quantum: JUPITER aims to exceed the 50 -QBITS record in simulation, a relevant step towards quantum practical computing Astrophysics: The Max Planck Institute will use it to study cosmic reion, the period in which the first stars and galaxies emerged Particle physics: The University of Wuppertal will increase the resolution of its calculations on the Mon, which could open the door to new discoveries Video models: The University of Munich explores compression and dissemination architectures to advance applications that go from medicine to autonomous driving Multimodal models: The University of Lisbon Scale open and multilingual models, integrating different fields of science and automatic learning Access and future Researchers may request access to the system in calls that will be held twice a year. At the moment, there are already 30 projects underway. The expected useful life is at least six years, which guarantees continuity and stability in a land where technological cycles are increasingly fast. A strategic movement Jupiter is not just a technological achievement. It is a strategic commitment to provide Europe on their own capacity in an area where part of the future of artificial science and intelligence is played. With him, the continent finally has a tool that allows him compete at the highest levelwith energy efficiency and technological independence. Images | Nvidia | Jülich Supercomputing Center In Xataka | Alibaba has just demonstrated that Openai spends 78 million to do the same as them for $ 500,000

Less routes, less stops and less municipalities

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Spain prepares for a deep change in its bus lines. The Ministry of Transport has the mission of renewing a system that has become obsolete, with dozens of expired services in its award but that continue to be provided by the impossibility of new competitions. And with the challenge of transforming and approaching the new realities of our country. What is happening? He Concessional map of Spanish buses He prepares for a deep change. The Ministry of Transport Wait for the response of the Autonomous Communities to your last proposal in a period that expires next Monday. Silence will be taken as an acceptance of the new model but it is not clear what the vote of a good part of the regions will be, mostly governed by the Popular Party. How do Spanish buses work? In Spain, two companies are not allowed to fight along the same line, as with trains. There are currently 77 runners who go out to competition. To this exam the interested companies are presented and, subsequently, the concession to whom the best offer under the designed sheets is attributed. What changes are proposed? What Transport has presented has been a deep redesign in this way of acting. They point out in Five daysthat from wanting to reduce to 22 runners of the total of 77 that is now available. These, they say, respond to the new ways of moving from the Spaniards who have been betting on the journeys between large cities or have jumped to the train. This implies, irremediably, that the new routes would put aside many municipalities (especially those that have lost population). Transport ensures that this service will have to replace the autonomous communities with their own concessions and offer 40 million euros extra help to implement the new lines. What do those involved respond? They point out in the economic environment that the opposition has not made its position clear. It has been pointed out that 40 million euros are insufficient and that the investment should be at least 110 million euros. However, the regions have until next Monday to answer and give a definitive answer. For their part, bus companies have been divided for years. Confebus is an association that represents 40% of companies that operate in our country and They firmly believe in the concessional modelsince they ensure that it allows more security for travelers when it comes to the route and also greater security for companies that have to get the concession. Anetra or Flixbus, however, carry years betting on liberalization of the sector. This last company uses a franchise system throughout Europe that analyzes customer movement data, with the aim of focusing on those most profitable routes with a higher volume of income. Something that cannot be done in Spain. A monopoly without expiration date. The main problem indicated by these companies, but also by the government, is that the terms of the awards are not being fulfilled. In Five days They put the example of the Madrid-Irún route, one of the ones that moves the most money but has been expired for six years. Without a new contest, the concessionary company continues to act in a kind of undercover monopoly. The reasons are varied but they almost always follow the same pattern. It is very difficult to take the new corridor in contest because the process is drowned in a tangle of allegations during the different phases of the process. Madrid-Valenciawhich has to go out to competition, already accumulates more than 800 allegations. Goodbye, town, goodbye. The great victims of the new process are, without a doubt, the inhabitants of hundreds of municipalities that could run out of routes. With the new transport proposition (They have been advancing since 2022)the data speak for themselves: the stops will be reduced, on average, from 12.8 per route to just six. The municipalities under the responsibility of transport go from 1,912 locations to 495. From the Ministry they try to calm the waters ensuring that the municipalities that are abandoned because the affected autonomous communities do not take care of those routes that, with the new model, fall on their roof will be served by transport. But it has not been said under what conditions or if there will be reductions in frequencies, for example. Photo | Flixbus and Ash Gerlach In Xataka | The bus has been working for centuries as we know it. Madrid wants to know its limits with a “bus on demand”

The three -day work week will bring us

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Artificial intelligence advances so fast that its arrival at the labor market has caught many with changed foot And he is already assuming The basic tasks that before carrying out fellows and recent graduates that began Your professional career. Far from seeing it as a negative factor for the labor market, some executive directors such as Jensen Huang de Nvidia, Eric Yuan de Zoom, Jamie Dimon de Jpmorgan or Bill Gates, see the arrival of AI as a complement that It will trigger productivity of employees. According to them, the work week It will not cut four days: It will be enough with a three -day work week. Bill Gates and the three -day week. Bill Gates was one of the first important names in technology to be convinced that The productivity would improve and would make the weekly days of five days unnecessary, being able to reduce them three days of work. He did it in an interview in the podcast “What now?” of Trevor Noahwhere he said “If we finally reach a society where we only have to work three days a week or something, there will probably be no problem if the machines can produce all the food and the other products and we do not have to work so much”, and add Bill Gates, “in the short term, the increase in productivity that the AI ​​provides is very interesting. Eliminating part of the heaviest work.” AI is already a reality. For his part, Jensen Huang, at the head of Nvidia, held in a Interview with Fox Business that we are “at the beginning of the AI ​​revolution” and pointed out that a broad adoption of artificial intelligence would make the passage to four days. Huang gave as an example the transition of the seven -day work week of the Industrial Revolution to the current one, and pointed out as an evolution the passage to a reduction from working hours to less than five days. Even so, he warns that we could be “more busy in the future than now“ Jamie Dimon, executive director of JPMorgan Chase, Provides a similar vision For the financial sector, one of the most demanding As for your workday. As Dimon acknowledged in An interview for Bloomberg TV“Literally they will probably work 3 and a half days per week” in the next generation, thanks to technology. Zoom CEO also aspires to work less. The last senior executive in positioning the side of the weekly day reduction to three days has been Eric Yuan, the general director of Zoom, who in An interview for The New York Times He assured that “I feel that, if AI can make our lives better, why do we need to work five days a week?”, Adventoring that this trend will free time by unnecessary endless working days. The impact of AI and the displacement of employment. The data on the impact of AI on the workplace does not paint a near future as optimistic as technological and CEOS millionaires predicted. The report ‘The Future of Jobs 2025’ The World Economic Forum indicates that about 92 million jobs will be destroyed by trends such as automation and the use of AI. However, at the same timethe study estimates the creation of 170 million New jobs Related to the technological development of that automation and AI, which would leave a positive net balance of 78 million jobs. In that same plot line, some of the main gurus of the current AI moves, such as Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, that I assured that many entry posts – especially in office work – are among the most vulnerable to total automation in the next five years. For his part, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, warns that half of the jobs They will suffer deep changes “In less than one generation” and that reconfiguration will be so fast that many of the current works will be deeply transformed or substitutable In a few years. Less days or more productivity. That the labor market will suffer A deep transformation It seems clear. What does not seem to be so much is whether that Improvement in productivity which supposedly contributes AI will be used to improve living conditions of workers as was done in previous industrial revolutions. For example, software engineers, one of the sectors most affected by AI automation, the evolution has been towards the Depreciation of the value of your workdemanding more intense days and worse remuneratedinstead of getting a shorter work week. In Xataka | Microsoft gets serious with the use of github co -ilot: its employees used it little, but that is about to change Image | Nvidia, Flickr (World Bank Photo Collection), Zoom

The controversial statement of the Danish minister about chat control

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Peter Hummelgaard is the Minister of Justice of Denmark and has become one of the greatest defenders of Chat Control. The measure, which is part of the regulation to fight child abuse on the network, would mean a Hard blow to the privacy of European citizens to the end the end -to -end encryptionbut for Humelgaard this should not be a right. Hard statements. While other European countries are discussed on whether the end (fighting child abuse) justifies the media (that everyone’s conversations cease to be private), Danish justice has a very hard position about it. In Danish television statementsHummelgaard said that: “We must break with the totally wrong perception that communicating through encrypted messaging services is a civil freedom of all.” Maximum priority. Last week we collected the news of the Chat Control Return. The measure, which has been rejected aboveis being promoted again by Denmark, which since July occupies the presidency of the EU Council. Denmark was always in favor of this measure, and now They are treating it with the highest priority. What is chat control. It is the name with which the CSAM regulation (Child sex abuse material) is known. What Denmark wants and countries in favor of this measure is that the authorities can force the messaging services to give access to the content to scan it in real time, including those who are encrypted from extreme to the end, such as WhatsApp or Signal. Although it is presented with a very specific purpose, in practice it would be open the door to mass surveillance. Positions. On September 12 there was a meeting in which the countries made their position in front of this measure, whose final vote will occur next October 14. The positions of the countries have moved these days and, according to the Fight Chat Control informationthere are currently 14 states in favor, 10 against and 3 undecided states. If the undecided choose to reject it, there would be a draw. A lot of at stake. And on both sides. Germany has been one of the countries that has recently opposed the measure and Point out the problem From the Danish proposal: “Private and confidential communications must remain private. At the same time, there is an obligation to combat child abuse on the Internet (…) Danish posture cannot be backed 100 %.” Luxembourg, Slovakia And Estonia also recently opposed. Spain wants chat control. In 2023, before Chat Control was first rejected, A filtration revealed that The Government of Spain was in favor of ending end -to -end encryption. In a debate on the subject and while other countries defended the possibility of scanning in search of sensitive material without ending the encrypted, Minister Grande Marlaska said that “it is essential that we have access to the data (encrypted).” Images | World Economic Forum and Pexels In Xataka | Nepal’s youth are experiencing a new type of democracy: deciding the country’s future in discord

The Chinese brand has begun to make its cars in the continent

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The Chinese brand of electric vehicles has launched Your first local production line In Europe, marking an important step in the industry, as it is placed as one of the first Chinese manufacturers to produce local vehicles in the continent. The company has chosen Magna’s facilities in Graz, Austria, to start the assembly of its most successful models in the European market. A key movement. Xpeng’s decision of manufacture at the local level in Europe Respond directly to Tariffs imposed by the European Union to electric vehicles manufactured in China. The tariff tax can reach up to 35.3% for some manufacturers, a percentage that adds to the 10% base tariff. In the case of Xpeng, considered A “cooperating” entity In European research on subsidies, the additional rate is only 20.7%. Xpeng G6. Image: Xpeng The choice of the perfect partner. Magna Steyr It is not any manufacturer by contract. Its Graz facilities have produced vehicles for brands such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Toyota. The plant specializes in flexible production of low volumes to media, and is recognized for its ability to assemble multiple complex models in shared lines. Currently, it is where the Mercedes-Benz class G. and the BMW Z4. The numbers speak. Between January and July 2025, Xpeng registered sales abroad from 18,701 vehicleswhich represents an interannual increase of 217%. In Europe specifically, more than 8,000 units were recorded in the first half of the year. The G6 monopolizes 67% of the brand’s total sales in Europe, becoming the star model of the region. More than a factory. Xpeng’s European strategy goes beyond production. The company has recently opened Your first center European research and development in Munich, Germany. This installation is designed to support technical collaboration and the adaptation of products to local markets. Although, like Explain The president and CEO he Xiaopeng, the center also focuses on conceptual prototypes through “an ecosystem driven by the focused on intelligent electric vehicles, humanoid robotics and flying vehicles.” The time factor. Xpeng has advanced to his rival byd in the race for local European production. While serial production in Austria should be in full operation next month, ByD plans to start Your production in Hungary Towards the end of the year. And now what. The company Plan Expand local production to other models in the future, including the new Xpeng P7+, described as its “car with AI”. The firm already has a presence in more than 46 countries and regions worldwide since its entry into Norway in 2021, being an example of the hunger that the Chinese automotive industry has by conquer other regionsnot only by export, but also through local manufacturing to grow the brand towards international markets. Cover image | Xpeng In Xataka | From Byd to Xiaomi: all Chinese cars that are already sold in Spain, Europe and those who are coming

The first cable that connects it to the peninsula is already in the sea

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Giulio Verne, a cable vessel from the company Prysmian, crossed the Strait on September 15 to dock in Ceuta. In his winery he brought more than copper and steel: the first underwater cable that connects to the autonomous city with the peninsular electrical system. With this, Ceuta leaves decades of energy isolation behind. And Spain, when looking in that mirror, is reflected the challenges that still Drag in your own networks. Weaving networks. According to the Red Eléctrica press release from Spainon August 26, the line began from the Line of La Concepción, in Cádiz. The cable toured 58 kilometers under the sea until reaching the Ceutí coast, with maneuvers almost 900 meters deep and special measures to protect the biodiversity of the Strait. The boat chosen for this operation, Giulio Verne, is one of the few of the world prepared for this type of missions: it can load up to 7,000 tons of cable and place it more than 1,600 meters underwater. Leaving behind the “energy island.” Until now, Ceuta’s electrical demand was covered with diesel and gas turbines. The result were high costs for the system, dependence on fossil fuels and polluting emissions in an especially sensitive enclave such as narrow. Thanks to the interconnection, Ceuta will stop depending completely on fossil fuels. As we point out in Xatakaup to 87% of the electrical demand can be covered with clean energy. That will be a respite for the environment – about 300,000 tons of co₂ will be avoided – and also for the system invoice, with a saving of about 30 million euros per year. From Ree summarize it with a clear image: This “umbilical cord” will give Ceuta a supply as stable and safe as that of the Peninsula, but also cheaper and sustainable. The challenge is even greater. Yes, Ceuta has ceased to be an “energy island”, but Spain continues to be in more than one sense. The Iberian Peninsula maintains an interconnection level With France of just 2.8%far from 15% marked by the European Union by 2030. In addition, they are still waiting for reach concrete plans To create electric interconnection runners, while they continue to suffer an electric “bottleneck. However, the problem is also internal. Within Spain, at noon there is cheap renewable spare in rural Spain, but at the afternoon, electricity is fallen in urban areas. According to the employer Aelēc83.4% of distribution knots are already saturated, which blocks the connection of new industrial or digital consumption and forces to waste up to 30% of clean energy at some points. Rather than directly relieve these knots – Ceuta’s link responds to another logic – the project demonstrates that Spain has the technical capacity to undertake large interconnections, just what you need to reinforce its internal network and stop losing clean energy along the way. More networks. In Ceuta, the road map is clear and will benefit the electrical system. The second submarine circuit will tend along autumn. On land, the new virgin substation of Africa (132 kV) should be ready in September, and in October the new Algeciras transformation park will be put into service, connected to the existing 220 kV substation. With the Soterrado terrestrial sections almost finished, the official forecast is that all the infrastructure is running before the end of this year. You have to get muscle. The Ceuta cable shows that Spain has technical muscle to undertake complex and sustainable projects, with underground, directed drilling and compact substations. But it also launches a warning: it is not enough to celebrate a new link. The energy transition requires more internal network, more distribution capacity in demand poles, more storage and more international interconnections. Other countries have already advanced. The United Kingdom and Denmark Viking Link premiered in 2023a 765 kilometers cable that crosses the North Sea to import or export electricity according to the wind. Spain, which beats cheap renewable generation records at noon, needs something similar not to run out at night. The Strait already has its “umbilical cord.” The question is whether Spain will know how to weave the network that connects it, really, with itself and with Europe. Image | Freepik and Ree Xataka | Emptied Spain has been filled with solar mills and panels, but waste energy for a simple reason: there are no cables

A perfect storm is hitting wind energy in almost everyone. Less in China

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Wind energy has gone from being the great hope of Europe to be in the shadow of photovoltaic solar. Deserted auctions, paralyzed projects waiting for permits and bottlenecks in network connections are an increasingly common reality for the sector both in the old continent and in the United States. But in the midst of this perfect storm, an exception called China is able to completely distort global statistics. Wind in the West. Europe installed 16.4 GW of wind capacity in 2024, a figure lower than the expected Windeurope It attributes endless administrative delays and increasingly complicated financial conditions, especially for inflation in the supply chain. Projects Judicially blockeddeserted auctions … Nothing that the United States is not experiencing on the other side of the Atlantic. A few weeks ago, the US government canceled an investment of 679 million dollars to adapt the ports to the offshore wind industry, an infrastructure without which the huge components of marine wind turbines cannot be assembled or transported. Before, the Trump administration had paralyzed the construction of almost finished wind farms For the alleged espionage from China. Meanwhile, in China. If wind energy facilities grew 13% in 2024 it was almost exclusively thanks to Chinese demand. Excluding China from the equation, The market contracted 16%. Only Chinese manufacturers continue to beat orders records, and there are no signs that this will change this year. According to a Bloomberg reportChina monopolizes approximately 75% of all new offshore wind energy facilities in 2025. The Asian country dominates the world production of components and enjoys greater investments thanks to the agility of permits and financial support of the Communist Party, which establishes very low interest rates for these companies. A two -speed transition. The result is an energy transition that advances at radically different rhythms. While Europe and the United States collide with economic reality and government changes, China meets its objectives and almost completely dominate the supply chain. We are living The fastest energy change in historybut not all countries can advance at the same speed. This imbalance is also one of the reasons why Solar energy has eaten the ground to wind in pioneer regions in the sector, such as Europe. The installation of panels (most manufactured in China) is cheaper and more simple, both at the logistics level and permits, than the wind turbine industry that once Europe led. Image | Siemens Gamesa In Xataka | One of the most arid areas in China is reverde. The reason: a plant with seven million solar panels

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