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India wants to build a mammoth airport for 120 million passengers a year. The problem is that it accumulates years of delays

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India is building one of the most ambitious airport infrastructures on the continent. The Noida International Airport, built in Jewar, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, has the potential to become one of the largest hubs in Asia with a planned maximum capacity of between 60 and 120 million passengers per year. We tell you all the details of this mammoth project. A project with decades of history behind it. The idea of ​​building a large airport in this area has been brewing for years. The original proposal dates back to 2001, when the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Rajnath Singh, proposed an aeronautical hub geared towards Taj Mahal tourism. After years of political changes, disputes over the location and administrative stoppages, the project was relaunched in 2014. The central government gave its final approval in 2015, and in November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the first phase. Who builds it and how. The development is carried out by Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) under a public-private partnership model. In 2019, Flughafen Zürich AG, the operating company of Zurich Airport, won the tender to build and manage it for 40 years. Civil construction was awarded in 2022 to Tata Projects Limited, with a stated target of net zero emissions. What will be there when it opens. The first phase includes a terminal (T1) with capacity for 12 million passengers per year and a 3,900-meter runway, already operational. The basic infrastructure is practically ready: control tower, baggage management systems, ten boarding bridges and security services. According to account The Sun, the interior design opts for an open-plan aesthetic with an undulating roof that imitates the flow of a river, large air-conditioned waiting areas, self-check-in kiosks, prayer rooms and children’s areas. There will also be a central area open to the outside with vegetation and shade. A phased deployment until 2050. The airport will grow in four phases. To the first terminal and initial runway, three more terminals and up to six runways in total will be added progressively, reaching a combined capacity of between 60 and 120 million passengers per year by 2050, according to the data collected by The Times India. That would put him in the same league as the Beijing Daxing International Airport either the one in dubai. Its great advantage: the Taj Mahal within reach. Agra, home to the Taj Mahal and which receives up to eight million visitors a year, is now almost four hours’ drive from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. With the new airport, that trip would be reduced to just over two hours. The project is also designed as an alternative to the overcrowded Indira Gandhi, the main hub of the Delhi metropolitan area. Beyond the passengers. The airport also aspires to become an important cargo node for northern India, relying on its proximity to the Delhi-Mumbai Express Corridor and Dedicated Freight Corridors, as point the Time Out medium. The airlines that have already committed. IndiGo and Akasa Air have confirmed operations at the airport, mainly on domestic routes. Among the destinations mentioned are Bombay, Hyderabad and Calcutta. International routes, including possible connections to Zurich or Dubai, are still pending confirmation. Delays, the big problem. The opening was initially planned for 2022, then for September 2024, and later there was talk of October 30 of that year. The works continue and given the history of delays, there is no choice but to wait for a definitive opening date, which should be shortly. Images | Noida International Airport In Xataka | A megastructure was built 1,700 years ago for eternity: today it continues to dominate Sri Lanka

It already accumulates more than 13,000 million dollars in losses

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The electric car manufacturer Lucid Motors has been in a situation from which he does not raise his head. One of Tesla’s biggest rivals already accumulate losses of 13.3 billion dollars Since its creation (about 11,291 million euros to change), their shares have lost 97% of its value from historical maximums and its ambitious sales goals have crashed at a discouraging reality: from January 2022 to December 2024 has delivered 20,611 vehicles. The collapse of a unicorn. Lucid debuted in the stock market in July 2021 with the shares shooting up 19% on the first day. Led by Peter Rawlinson, an exingenero of Tesla, the company was presented as the most serious rival of the company led by Elon Musk. Three years later, he has not yet managed to get out of that ‘Death Valley‘: The shares have fallen from the 64.86 dollars in November 2021 to the current 2.12, just 9% above historical minimums. Broken promises on a scale. In May 2021, Lucid promised to deliver 20,000 vehicles in 2022climbing up to 135,000 in 2025. The reality: 4,369 in 2022, 6,001 in 2023 and 10,241 in 2024. Of the more than 25,000 reservations that he claimed to have in 2022 – teams to 2,400 million in potential sales – most evaporated. This pattern reflects growing distrust of new electrical brands, similar to What happened with Fiskerwhich broke leaving thousands of owners without technical service. Aggressive price cuts. The initial production problem quickly became a lack of demand. To try to reverse the situation, lucid He has trimmed prices A aggressively: the average sale price fell from $ 211,000 in the last quarter of 2021 to $ 76,000 in the first quarter of 2025. The entrance model, Air Purehas seen its reduced price from $ 83,900 in August 2023 to current 71,400. Even so, sales are still anemic: just 28 vehicles throughout Europe last month. Management Exodus and Leadership Change. Twelve senior executives left the company between October 2023 and May 2025. Rawlinson himself It was ceased as CEO in Februarybeing replaced by operations director Marc Winterhoff interim. The company has crossed multiple rounds of layoffs, eliminating 1,300 jobs in March 2023 and another 400 in May 2024, although it now seeks to hire 740 people for expansion in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi rescue. Lucid’s survival depends more and more on the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia, which injected 1,000 million in 2018 and promised another 1.5 billion in August 2024. This financial agency contrasts with the previous statements of Rawlinson, who He warned about the danger of treating the kingdom as a source of “backless wealth.” The current stock market capitalization of 6,470 million is lower than half of the accumulated losses. The future on the wire. Lucid has begun the deliveries of its second model in the United States, the SUV Gravityalthough the interim CEO admits that production advances more slowly than desired. After Rawlinson’s departure in February, the company said he wanted Duplicate production up to 20,000 vehicles In 2025, but the shares have lost 29.8% so far this year. Finishing 2024 with 1.6 billion profits and losses of 2.7 billion only in 2024, time is exhausted to demonstrate that it can escape from the “Death Valley”which has already buried other pure EVS startups such as Fisker, Canoo or Lordstown Motors. Cover image | Lucid Motors In Xataka | Volkswagen was the infiltrated brand that reigned in China. Until it was rolled by a train called byd

The exomars mission already accumulates 20 years of calvary and bad luck

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Mars seems to have a special online to the European space agency and, more specifically, to the exomars mission and his Rover Rosalind Franklin. What promised to be a pioneer mission for Europe in the search for past life on the red planet has become a true technological and geopolitical calvary, a saga of misfortunes that leads to ask if the rover will not simply be cursed. From NASA to Russia. The exomars odyssey It started two decades agoin 2005, with the aim of launching a rover to Mars in 2011. Initially conceived in collaboration with NASA, the mission suffered a first capital setback in 2012, when the US agency, due to the cost overruns in projects such as the James Webb space telescope, decided to retire. Nor was the European prominence of the mission funny. This first jug of cold water forced ESA to look for a new partner to desperate. The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos. Russia would provide the proton rockets for the two phases of the mission and a crucial element: the Kazachok descent module that would be in charge of the Martian landing of the rover. A second setback. The first phase of the mission, launched in 2016included the Trace Gas Orbiter probe, which operates successfully in the Martian orbit. Also the Schiaparelli landing module, designed to test “mooring” technologies. Schiaparelli crashed into the surface because he misunderstood the accelerometer readings: he mistakenly assumed that he had landed and fired the roof and parachute early. On Earth, the launch of the Rover, scheduled for 2018, was postponed to 2020 for problems with The parachutes and delays in the delivery of components. Then, the Covid-19 pandemia He added more delays, pushing the launch window at 2022. And then, war. The Rover was baptized ‘Rosalind Franklin’ in honor of the British crystallographer whose x -ray diffraction images were fundamental to reveal the double helix structure of the DNA. When everything seemed (finally) on track, with the rover ready for a few months of takeoff, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 He dynamited collaboration. ESA, in an inevitable decision, suspended cooperation with Roscosmos, leaving Rosalind Franklin orphan of a pitcher and, above all, of landing platform. A devastating blow. Light at the end of the tunnel. Baptized ‘Rosalind Franklin’ in honor of the British crystallographer whose X -ray diffraction images were fundamental to reveal the double propeller structure of the DNA, the rover did not raise head. But that decided not to throw in the towel. Member States pledged new financing in the mission and ESA chose to develop a European landing platform. Thales Alenia Space was selected as the main contractor in April 2024 with a contract of 522 million euros, but it is Airbus Defense and Space the one that will be in charge of design and construction of the landing module, which, ironically, keep a great resemblance With Russian Kazachok. And now what. When light was finally seen at the end of the tunnel, The budget proposed by the White House For NASA it seems to leave out the contribution of the US agency in the European Rover. According to Eric Berger, from Ars Technica, in addition to the Mars Sample Mission Return of Return of the Red Planet, in which Europe also participated, The contribution of NASA was disappearing in the European Rover Rosalind Franklin. It was a modest, but crucial contribution to the mission: Plutonium -based RHU heater. For now, the launch date of the Misión Exomars and the Rover Rosalind Franklin remains scheduled by the end of 2028, with A landing in the Martian plain Oxia Planum planned for 2030. A long trajectory to avoid the season of global dust storms on Mars. Rover Rosalind Franklin will carry its drill capable of drilling up to two meters under the surface, where possible biofirms would be protected from radiation. Image | DSIT, that In Xataka | Exomars, this is the most ambitious Mars mission in Europe

China accumulates unfortunate data centers, and it is not the only

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When Chatgpt broke into the scene in November 2022unleashed one of the most intense technological careers in recent years. Companies and governments rushed to take positions so as not to stay out of the rise of the artificial intelligence. In the center of that reaction were the data centers: key infrastructure that make it possible to train language models that shape chatbots and other AI -based applications. American giants such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta They announced the expansion of their infrastructure beyond their borderswith millionaire projects that also arrived in Spain and They unleashed authentic fever for this type of facilities in the region. The AI ​​earthquake also shook China, where the central government declared its development as a national priority and promoted the creation of new infrastructure to sustain it. The data centers boom begins to stagger According to IDC analysis firm databetween 2022 and 2024, more than 200 projects linked to data centers focused on artificial intelligence were tendered, distributed in 28 provinces and 81 Chinese cities. The growth rate shot against previous years, with a wave of “intelligent computer science” initiatives that not only sought to strengthen the country’s digital infrastructure, but also promised to boost local economies. There were several well -known names in this part of the world: Alibaba, Bytedonce – the Tiktok matrix -, Tencent, Baidu or Deepseek, all betting hard for this land. The objective was clear: if artificial intelligence was going to mark the future, China could not afford to be left in front of the United States. In order not to lose positions in this race, the Asian giant needed to move fast, very fast. Although neither companies nor governments said it openly, each new project was announced with full awareness that technology was not yet mature enough, and the business model, either at all defined. The bet – as it usually occurs in this type of initiatives – was based on the expectation that, sooner or later, it will generate a relevant economic value, either directly or indirectly, for those who are promoting it. Despite the millionaire investments in new data centers, China’s enthusiasm for large -scale linguistic models is losing strength. As Mit Technology Review collectsmore than half of the recently built computer resources remain without using. To this situation are added factors such as the lack of technical and market experience of many of the actors who bet on this type of infrastructure for being a trend. The result: dozens of smaller data centers are looking for customers willing to pay for their use, but the truth is that, although China is a huge market, demand is not responding as expected. The large technological groups in the country are already dealing with their own infrastructure, and smaller companies, instead of training their own models in these centers, are opting for payment solutions for use. Finally, they point out that many of the data centers built in recent years were designed thinking about pre -entry workloads, that is, long and demanding processes that require huge volumes of data. However, the current demand focuses on inference: executing models already trained to offer real -time responses. And that is where many of these infrastructure are not prepared. A phenomenon that extends beyond China According to TD Cowen analysts cited by BloombergMicrosoft would have canceled new data centers projects In the United States and Europe. The company has not made official statements, so it is not yet clear what facilities would be affected. However, experts point to a concrete cause: the reduction of commitments with Openai, the startup of AI in which Microsoft has invested billions. For years, Openai depended exclusively on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. But that changed recently, when opening to other computer suppliers. In parallel, Microsoft maintains plans to invest 80,000 million dollars in data centers during its current fiscal year, which ends in June. Even so, analysts expect that investment rhythm will later decelerate an unexpected movement. Images | DC Studio | Scott Rodgerson In Xataka | Personalized GPTS are one of Openai’s great inventions. Now Google has just released yours in Gemini

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