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They are 25.5 hours on average

February 11, 2025 by usatoday24

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

February 11, 2025 by usatoday24

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

February 10, 2025 by usatoday24

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

February 10, 2025 by usatoday24

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

February 10, 2025 by usatoday24

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

has started saying 5% of the finish line

February 10, 2025 by usatoday24

Mark Zuckerberg announced at an internal meeting with his squad that 2025 was going to be an intense year. Just a few days later, the company announced a round of layoffs in which 5% of its global labor mass would be dispensed with that did not demonstrate a certain level of performance. This means the dismissal of about 3,600 finishing worldwide. According to sources of Reuters. This template adjustment will be carried out with the company’s approach in improving the efficiency that Zuckerberg champied in 2023 with its “Year of efficiency“The main novelty is that, according to the news agency, the best performance roles cut It will be compensated with the hiring of strategic profiles related to artificial intelligence and automatic learning. Departure gun to layoffs. As published by Reuters, dismissal notices have already begun to be sent by email to the target employees of the world, mainly from the US and the United Kingdom. Between February 11 and 18, Asia and Africa employees will also begin to receive their dismissal notifications and contain details about their compensation. An hour after receiving email, affected employees will be expelled from the company’s systems. “For teams that have a partner or manager who leaves Monday, I understand that this can be a difficult day and that there could be some short -term interruptions and impacts in their daily work,” wrote Janelle Gale, Vice President of Meta In a memorandum sent to employees on Friday, of which It echoes Business Insider. Round trip program. On the other hand, according to The published in Business Insiderdays before the announcement of the company’s intention to reduce its template by 5%, Mark Zuckerberg I give green light to the definitive closure of its program diversity, equality, equity in hiring. So the new hiring that may occur from this moment will not be accepted to these programs. The memorandum sent by the RRHH head of Meta on Friday, it is noted that the employees dismissed in this round can re -request a finish line, once the deadlines of inactivity have been completed, although this time the parameters will not be taken into account of diversity, but “the previous performance will be taken into account when making a hiring decision.” EUROPA BLINDA EMPLOYMENT. According to the reuters sources, finishing employees in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands will be exempt from these layoffs due to Local labor regulations. In these cases, the respective goal branches in those countries will follow “local performance management processes,” said Meta’s HR memorandum. Spain does not enter the countries with “exceptions”, although if the Meta branch in Spain reaches a high number of dismissal should be notified as ERE. However, goal has not yet facilitated concrete figures of the number of layoffs in the respective countries. Unlike the US, in Europe, if a company with more than 300 employees plans to fire at least 30 workers within 30 days, you must follow Consultation and notification procedures for being considered collective dismissal. In countries like Germany, the requirements for dismissal are even stricter. Focus on efficiency and AI. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, justified his latest meetings with the finish line That leaked that this restructuring was part of an effort to raise performance standards within the company and that AI would be in the center of everything that tarked in 2025. “This is a marathon, not a speed race. But, honestly, this year for me it looks a little more at a speed race,” said Zuckerberg in his speech, As published Business Insider. According to Reuters, in an internal statement by Peng Fan, vice president of engineering for monetization, the recruitment process will take place between February 11 and March 13. In Xataka | Mark Zuckerberg’s last interview has revealed that his clothes is not the only thing that has changed: the new “Maltete” of Meta Image | Unspash (Mariia Shalabaieva, Jose Losada)

The world pharmaceutical industry has been sunk in its “Deepseek moment”: China is devouring it

February 10, 2025 by usatoday24

This summer we estee that, for the first time in history, China beat Europe as a new medication developer. It was not a stroke of luck: the pharmacist is one of the most complex sectors in the world and China has been determined to compete in it at the highest level. A decision that is paying off. So much that, today, the question is not whether China will stand up to the US. The question is whether the western pharmaceutical industry is facing its own “moment Deepseek“: The appearance of a more agile competitor, cheaper and (at least on paper) equally good. A small panoramic. Historically, Europe was always the great world pharmaceutical superpower. However, in the decade that goes between 1995 and 2005, the situation changed: the US made a very strong biomedical commitment and managed to advance the old continent. That has not changed in the last 20 years. In fact, according to the latest edition of the ‘The Pharmaceutical Industry in figures‘(The 2023), they say that the 90 new molecules, 28 were American compared to 17 of European origin. The surprise was another: that China had managed to put 25 on the table. And although that, alone it changes (almost) everything; There was something else. In autumn, summit therapeutics announced that its drug He had surpassed Keytruda, a well -known Merck immunotherapy against lung cancer that moves more than 30,000 million a year. To get an idea of the bombing: only that news catapulted Summit to the top positions of world biotechnology (with a stock market capitalization of billions) even though … it has no approved drug. As David Wainer explained“China’s rise in biotechnology has been managing for years, but now it is impossible to ignore it.” In 2020, less than 5% of the large pharmaceutical transactions worth 50 million dollars or more were related to China. “In 2024, that figure had increased to almost 30%,” According to the journalist. Why does this happen? Although everything has some speculative air, experts agree that There are some key factors behind Of all this: Lower costs: both for the ease of access to highly qualified labor and low cost and access to thousands of people for optimized clinical trials. Minimum bureaucracy and less security obstacles that accelerate the market arrival process. And what consequences can it generate? That may be what most matches all this with What happened to Deep Seek: That the uncertainty about what may be doing in China, makes investors think much more if it is profitable to finance new projects. What is the point of spending hundreds of millions on something they can do in China for a dozen (And what, in fact, are surely doing even if we don’t know it)? And Europe? While innovation seems to go to China, Europe is still changed. Successes like Novo Nordisk and Ozempiceven invisible that we are losing a career that we should not lose (it is more, that we have been losing it for years). Josep Borrellformer high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has passed years saying that “When the pandemic arrived we realized that in Europe there was not a single gram of paracetamol.” That was something that did not worry anyone because Europe had always thought it was a problem of productive outsourcing. Now we are discovering that, along the way, we were outsourcing much more than that. Image | Mika Baumeister | Deepseek + Philipp Katzenberger In Xataka | Ozempic is sweeping. So much that it is a problem for supermarkets and sugary drinks

Give € 700 to those who marry

February 10, 2025 by usatoday24

To complicated problems, Imaginative solutions. South Korean couples that give the ‘Yes I want’ in Seoul already know who will make them one of the most expensive gifts to celebrate the link: the metropolitan government. As part of their efforts to win population and alleviate the demographic crisis facing the country as a whole, local authorities have decided to bet on A peculiar measure: Give a check of almost 700 euros to couples who marry. THE OBJECTIVE: Under its population. Celebrating with seven figures. Giving the ‘Yes I want’ will be a little easier in the capital of South Korea. Or less expensive, at least. In your effort to fight The demographic crisis that hits the nation, the Seoul metropolitan government plans to deliver one million wonesabout 668 euros, to couples who formalize their marriage in the city. According to Precise The press South Koreanlocal authorities have already contacted the Ministry of Health and Welfare to find a way to carry out the measure and how to make payments. His goal is that the aid can be distributed as of October and opt for them the bride and groom who have registered their link this year in the city. As long as, yes, they meet certain income requirements. Objective: 20,000 couples. Local authorities have already made accounts and they will benefit from the measure around 20,000 couplesalthough they could be more. Right now the Metropolitan Government contemplates that the couples who officers their union this year in Seoul benefit from the aid, but also requires that they do not exceed a certain income. To receive the check the total income of the couple must not exceed 150% of the average income. In Seoul they already consider however Open something else The hand and raise that maximum stop to 180%. There are two other unknowns about how the program will work: one is what will be the age limit for the beneficiaries, another is how exactly the million wones will be delivered. South Korean media talk that the sum could enter cash or at points that can be spent within the community itself. And what is the purpose? Technically, make life a little easier for the newlyweds. The idea is to offer them A subsidy that allows them to buy appliances, furniture and other belongings that they need to form their own home. To understand why Seoul bets on such a measure, however, it is necessary serious crisis of birth rate with derivatives at a social, economic or even Defense subject. The birth rate of South Korea is It has collapsed Over the last decades until it is located among the lowest of the entire planet. In fact, the demographic situation is so serious that At the end of last year The country was officially declared “aged”, a category that indicates that 20% of its population has already exceeded 65 years. Faced with such data to South Korea, no choice but to open A peculiar debate: Define what an old man is. Faced with desperate problems … We said it before: imaginative solutions, which is what the Metropolitan Government of Seoul is now looking for. Its authorities want to boost the birth rate supporting couples, contributing to their expenses and encouraging them to root in the capital. The objective is ‘water’ shy green sprouts demographic registered in 2024, both local and national. The latest official statistics show that in Seoul they were noted 38,568 births between January and November 2024, 5.1% more than during the same period of 2023; But the doubt of which, to what extent that percentage reveals a change in trend or is simply a mirage inherited from Covid, the result of couples who during the pandemic postponed their plans to marry or have babies. “The city government is closely reviewing the related measures to continue with the trend,” The administration indicates. Adds and continues of measures. The nuptial voucher is an original measure, but not the only one that has been on the table over the last years in South Korea to encourage birth. Not long ago he even raised to create a Super baby check of 70,000 euros for that same purpose. Other options that have been raised, in Seoul or the rest of the country, go through couples with a Municipal Program quotes, Improve food of mothers, hire foreign staff To facilitate reconciliation, give money to young people to encourage them to Leave home or even rethink the School planning. The Survival Law. Not all cities seem to go as well as Seoul. Yesterday Financial Times dedicated A wide report Busan, a port city located south of Korea del, who faces a critical demographic panorama. Despite being The second most populous city from the country, between 1995 and 2023 lost 600,000 neighborsa trend that seems to accelerate as the population ages and seoul gains weight in the country’s economy. Your situation is such that, According to the British newspaperlast year the Employment Information Service of South Korea classified the port city in the category of “risk of extinction”, which reveals its deep imbalance between the working population and the non -working and the threat of stopping be sustainable at the economic level. Images | ONE-11 (Flickr) and Marie (Flickr) In Xataka | South Korea has a huge solitude problem and a plan to fix it: 322 million dollars

China has a shortcut called Morocco

February 10, 2025 by usatoday24

Over time almost fulfilled, the European Union pressed the red button: Activate tariffs to Chinese electric car. With variable rates depending on the company, since the last days of October, all cars of this type from China have had to increase their costs (absorbed by the company or impact to the client), including those of European companies. To the measure, the manufacturers themselves have denounced the European Union before the Court of Justice of the European Unionwith the aim of eliminating this economic barrier that they consider unfair. The complaint has been submitted Byd, Saic, Geely and Tesla. The subject of tariffs is nothing more than One of the last chapters in the negotiation between him Chinese government and the European Union. Although these rates are applied, the agency has made clear its intention to maintain its conversations with the Chinese State and, in fact, did not charge the compensatory rights that have been applied from summer to the end of October. In addition, it has not imposed tariffs on plug -in hybrids. Explain you in your newsletter SAI (but auto insights) Weekly that everything indicates that it is a negotiating measure between both entities. The truth is that Chinese companies are offering their cars much cheaper than European manufacturers just when European regulations force this type of technology to skip a thousand millionaire fines. A shortcut called Morocco Since the application of tariff They aspire to gain market share. In that new strategy, Spain has taken a preponderant role. Our country is taking weight in the production of future electric cars for their low labor and energy costs compared to other European powers such as Germany or France. But, in addition, it also seems to be receiving the prize to turn their positions Regarding tariffs. Since they were applied, the Chinese state seems to have pressed to stop all investments in the countries where it was voted in favor of lifting these commercial barriers. In return countries like Spain have unlocked these (like the Catl factory in Zaragoza) and nations with special commercial treaties with the European Union are experiencing the growing interest of that Asian country. Turkey, for example, is one of the countries where Chinese interest has perched, with Byd studying the construction of a plant in a key geostrategic place. The other great country where China has put its eyes is Morocco. And investments leave no doubt. Morocco is a very attractive bridge for the Asian country. It has a Commercial Treaty that would allow you to skip tariffs on your electric manufacturing their cars on African soil. These investments, which first They have arrived in the form of kits That they are finished in Europe, they are still studied by the European Union that has to define whether or not they are enough to save the commercial barrier. It is, in fact, the way of working that has Omoda in Barcelona and the one that Leapmotor has raised for its production in European soil. The production of vehicles in Morocco is not new either. In fact, in 2023 he surpassed China, Japan and India as Main exporter of vehicles to the European Union. His low labor costs has turned Morocco into the perfect environment to produce cars such as Dacia Sandero o Stellantis’s light quadricycles (Citroën Ami, Fiat Topolino…). This appeal It wants to be exploited by China in car production but also with everything that revolves around the electric car. Among those new business opportunities is Battery production. Chinese official media say that producing in Morocco is 50% cheaper than doing so in Europe, they collect in Political. That savings has been the one that has encouraged Chinese companies such as Cngr Advanced Material, through a Moroccan subsidiary called Cngr Morocco New Energy to invest in a gigantic battery production plant. The project was completed with the signing of a investment of 2,000 million dollars For the same. They calculate, from the company, that production will reach a million electric cars every year, which is 70 GWH capacity. To have a better idea, The plant that Catl has designed for Zaragoza plans to provide 50 GWh. It is not, much less, the only project that comes in this regard. Chinese batteries manufacturers Hailiang and Shinzoom They announced An investment of 450 and 460 million dollars, respectively, in the industrial zone Tanger Tech. Although it is officially called “Cité Mohammed VI Tangger Tech”, so much has been the Chinese interest in the area that already call it the “Shanghai of Morocco” . The port of Tangier has become a Key space for the Moroccan government. Its proximity to Europe makes it a doubly attractive place: manufacturing on its ground is cheaper and moving the product to the European continent is also very little expensive. Investments in the electric car in Morocco are already calculated in 10,000 million dollars among which the phosphate exploitationkey minerals for the production of batteries and which Morocco has huge deposits. “For a long time, Europeans invested in Morocco to take advantage of cheap and unknic labor. Today, this workforce is not simply cheap, it is also competitive and is well trained. The Chinese have realized that they Interesting Investing, “said Mehdi Laraki, president of the Morocco-China Business Council in words collected by the medium Telquel. Photo | Audi In Xataka | Toyota has been one of the few firms that has not opted for the electric car. For now it is doing well

The most valuable company in the world has no interest in investing in data centers fever

February 10, 2025 by usatoday24

Big tech are investing Absolute fortunes in data centers. Almost all seem to be prepared to meet the colossal demand for computing capacity for AI tasks. And yet, there is a curious and surprising exception. Money, money and more money. In recent days, several large technology have announced their investment plans by 2025. In all cases astronomical budgets for the construction of data centers for AI: Microsoft were announced: Microsoft He spoke of 80,000 million dollars, Google of 75,000Goal of 65,000 And at the end of the week Amazon exceeded all those figures and promised to invest 100,000 million dollars In this area. To get a slight idea of what that figure supposes, a comparison: GDP Bulgaria was of 102,407 million dollars in 2023 (that of Spain, 1.62 billion). Apple. However, in Apple things are very different, and their capex planned for 2025 will remain almost flat compared to 2024 and will be 12,000 million dollars. It is a remarkable figure, of course, but is far from its competitors in the field of AI. And it is the one that has the most money. It is also interesting to compare the investment that these companies will make regarding their Market capitalization. Amazon is the strongest bet here: its capex is 4.12% its current market capitalization, followed by Meta and Google. Microsoft is somewhat more cautious (2.63%), but it surprises again that Apple, which is the world’s first company for market capitalization, has a capex of only 0.35% of all its value. Wall Street rules. The decisions of these companies seem to be very influenced by the behavior of stock markets. The presentation of financial results and short -term forecasts has caused a kind of contagious effect: if we do not invest a money in data centers, shareholders are going to punish us a lot, they seem to have said the Big Tech with those colossal figures. The great beneficiary is Nvidia. Meanwhile, it is likely that the great beneficiary of these colossal investments is Nvidia, which will be the one that will receive a good part of that money if everything follows the current trend. There will undoubtedly other beneficiaries in this area, but the Capex de Nvidia is comparatively ridiculous, both with respect to these companies and Regarding its current market capitalization (3.18 billion dollars). It is estimated that in fiscal year 2025 it will be about 3,000 million dollars, a quarter of the Apple, for example. In 2024 his capex It was barely 1,000 million dollars. Apple goes to another rhythm with AI. The firm of Cupertino seems clearly to have a very different strategy than that of its rivals in this segment. He has barely offered news since he presented Apple Intelligencewhose options are limited and whose deployment is being slow. The feeling, even internally, is that In Apple they are clear followers And that at the moment will not change. Image | Ekapol With Midjourney In Xataka | Is Tim Cook the Apple Ballmer and Nadella is the Microsoft Jobs?

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