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the best deals today, May 25, on Amazon

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A new week begins and the heat indicates that it will be the protagonist in our daily lives. If you are thinking of buying an air conditioner, fan or any air conditioning device, there are very interesting models. Although you can find discounts not only on these types of products. These are the best bargains that we found today on Amazon today, May 25. SZLX Vacuum Backpack with Pump Hand Luggage 40x30x20 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links portable air conditioner Midea PortaSplit by 949.99 euros: with 12,000 BTU and 4 in 1. OnePlus 15R + OnePlus Watch3 by 549 euros: 6.83 inches and 256 GB of storage. wireless speaker Soundcore Anker 2 by 25.99 euros: with 12 W of power and autonomy of up to 24 hours. SZLX Vacuum Cabin Backpack by 48.86 euros: with multiple compartments and waterproof pocket. Wireless adapter for Android Auto and CarPlay Ottocast Mini Pico by 54.09 euros: Plug & Play type and compatible with car controls. Midea PortaSplit portable air conditioner Within the air conditioning sector, this Midea PortaSplit It is one of the most powerful innovations in recent years. It solves in one fell swoop the main problem of portable air conditioners: the inefficiency and noise of the conventional extractor tube. It is an expensive model, but now you can get it at a discount, for 949.99 euros. It stands out for its impressive cooling capacity of 12,000 BTU, making it perfect for rooms up to 45 square meters. It is a 4-in-1 all-terrain device that cools, ventilates, dehumidifies and works as a heat pump. In addition, it is silent (it operates at around 39 dB) and has WiFi connectivity so you can control it from your mobile phone. Midea Portasplit Portable Air Conditioner 4 in 1 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links OnePlus 15R + OnePlus Watch3 If you are thinking of changing your mobile phone for a high-end one, this pack will interest you. Now, you can take the OnePlus 15R plus the OnePlus Watch3 with a 23% discount, for 549 eurosthus saving you almost 200 euros compared to its usual RRP. This OnePlus 15R stands out for its 6.83 inch AMOLED screen and its massive 7,400 mAh battery with 80 W SUPERVOOC fast charging. It has a triple camera and comes with 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. As for the OnePlus Watch3 watch, it works with WearOS and stands out for being very resistant. OnePlus 15R 12GB RAM + 256GB Storage, Charcoal Black Watch 3 43mm OPWE242 Black Steel The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Soundcore Anker 2 Wireless Speaker If you are one of those who, in summer, like to take your music to the pool, the beach or the balcony or terrace, this speaker Anker Soundcore 2 It is one of the undisputed kings of the entry range. Now, on Amazon, it is on sale and has gone from costing 39.99 euros to 25.99 euros in this flash offer. Despite its compact design, this Bluetooth speaker It offers a power of 12 W and its battery is something to highlight, as it provides a autonomy of up to 24 hours of continuous playback. It has IPX7 certification that makes it waterproof and you can create stereo sound by pairing two identical speakers. Soundcore Anker 2 Portable Bluetooth Speaker with 12W Stereo Sound The price could vary. We earn commission from these links SZLX Vacuum Cabin Backpack A viral phenomenon, this vacuum cabin backpack is perfect for flying in airlines low cost without having to pay extra for carrying luggage. Now, you can get it discounted on Amazon for 48.86 eurosmuch cheaper than having to pay to check in a cabin bag. The real strong point of this travel backpack lies in its intelligent distribution of the interior space and, above all, in the possibility of storing everything under vacuumsince it has a mouthpiece to do it easily. It has a practical waterproof insulated pocket and a ventilated compartment at the base exclusively for shoes. In addition, it has an external USB charging port, which is very useful for connecting a power bank. SZLX Vacuum Backpack with Pump Hand Luggage 40x30x20 The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Wireless adapter for Android Auto and CarPlay Ottocast Mini Pico Now that the good weather is here, getaways and trips are multiplying. If you are tired of plugging your wired phone into the car every time you get in it, this wireless adapter Ottocast Mini Pico It will be your salvation. Now, you can take it for 54.09 euros thanks to the 20 euro extra discount coupon available. The great advantage of this model wireless adapter lies in its Plug & Play configuration and its intelligent automatic reconnection function, which links the mobile phone just a few seconds after starting the engine. Is Compatible with original car controlsallowing you to continue natively using the steering wheel buttons, touch screen and Google Assistant or Siri commands. Ottocast Mini Pico, New 2026, Wireless 2-in-1 CarPlay Android Auto Adapter The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Midea, Ottocast, SZLX, Anker and OnePlus In Xataka | Which smart air conditioner to buy: how to choose a connected air conditioning system and featured models In Xataka | Buying guide for connected fans: recommendations for choosing a “smart” model with WiFi and six models from 50 euros

The best deals we have found today on Amazon, Tuesday, May 19

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Do you want to renew some of your technological devices while saving money? Like every week, at Xataka we make a selection with the best deals in technology that we found on Amazon. These are some of the offers that are worth it today, May 19. Xiaomi 17 – 12+512GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Projector TCL C1 by 193.34 euros: with certified Google TV system. Fire TV Stick HD by 25.99 euros: with Alexa shortcut button. smartphone Xiaomi 17 by 899.99 euros: 6.3 inches and 50 MP f/2.0 telephoto lens. Smart TV TCL 65Q7C by 899 euros: 65-inch QD MiniLED and with Google TV. Bluetooth locator Ugreen FineTrack by 13.99 euros: with CR2 battery that offers autonomy of up to 18 months. TCL C1 Projector We start our selection with a perfect device now that the 2026 World Cup is approaching to watch games in style. It’s about this TCL C1 portable projector which is reduced to 193.34 euros in this flash offer. This projector comes with the certified Google TV system pre-installed and allows you to watch streaming apps without having to resort to a Fire TV Stick or to an Android TV Box. It is also equipped with an 8 W speaker with Dolby Audio and is compatible with 4K video and HDR10 formats. TCL C1 Compatible 4K Portable Projector The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Fire TV Stick HD If you have an old TV at home, in a bedroom or in the kitchen, this Fire TV Stick HD is the most basic and economical, but it will help you make it smart or give it greater fluidity. Now you have a 42% discount and you can take it for 25.99 euros. This Amazon device offers HD streaming playback and it is perfect to get started in the world of Fire TV. Your remote comes with a shortcut button to Alexa. In addition, it easily connects to the HDMI port of your TV and its compact size makes it possible to take it comfortably even on vacation or a second home. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi 17 Smartphone If you want to change your phone and you had already had your eye on Xiaomi’s latest flagship, this one is now on sale Xiaomi 17 on Amazon. Specifically, you can take it with you 899.99 euros. The photographic system is the most notable thing about this Xiaomi 17. It has a 50 MP f/2.0 telephoto lensideal for taking photos in spaces with poor lighting. Its screen is 6.3 inches and this model on offer comes with 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB internal storage. Xiaomi 17 – 12+512GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Smart TV TCL 65Q7C As we have said before, one of the sporting events of the year is approaching and if you are looking for a TV to watch the 2026 World Cupthis TCL It’s on sale now on Amazon. It has gone from costing 1,099 euros to 899 euros in these moments. This television mounts a panel 65 inch QD MiniLED and has a sound system signed by Bang & Olufsen. Works under the operating system Google TV and it is also perfect for gaming, thanks to its 144 Hz refresh rate. TCL 65Q7C Television 65 Inch QD-Mini LED 4K Smart TV The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ugreen FineTrack Bluetooth Tracker Have you been thinking about buying a AirTag to have your keys, wallet or even your suitcase located during your vacation, but do you think it’s expensive? This Ugreen locator It is the economical alternative and is now available for only 13.99 euros. It has the same design and size as the Apple AirTag and is compatible with the network “Search” from the bitten apple company. Powered by a replaceable CR2 battery, which provides autonomy of up to 18 months. UGREEN FineTrack Mini Tag The price could vary. We earn commission from these links

one where Google, Amazon and Microsoft pay a toll so that we all have internet

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In March 2024, several countries in East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia began experiencing strange internet outages and massive slowdowns in digital services. The origin was not in a cyber attack or an electrical blackout, it was on a ship reached during an attack in the Red Sea that had accidentally dragged its anchor onto the seabed and damaged several undersea cables essential for global communications. Iran’s plan B. For decades, the Strait of Hormuz was seen as the great bottleneck energy of the planet, the route through which much of the world’s oil circulates. It happens that the war with the United States and Israel has made Iran discover something much more important: the Internet also circulates under those waters. As? Apparently, CNN told that Tehran has understood that the submarine cables that connect Europe, Asia and the Gulf are an infrastructure as strategic as oil tankers, and it wants to convert that geographical position into a new source of power. The idea that begins to emerge in Iranian discourse is very clear: if the world needs to pass data under Hormuz, large technology companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft or Meta should accept some kind of tolllicense or submission to Iranian rules. In other words, Hormuz would no longer be just a lever about global energybut also about the digital economy. The invisible cables. The great Iranian strategic discovery is born from an inconspicuous reality: almost all global traffic data depends on physical cables laid on the seabed. Banking payments, cloud services, military communications, streaming platforms, stock market operations and much of the artificial intelligence infrastructure pass through them. Some of these cables cross areas near Iranian waters, especially in the Persian Gulf. Although many of the international routes were designed to directly avoid Iranian territory, Tehran understands that proximity is enough to put pressure. The regime has understood that interrupting or threatening these corridors could generate enormous economic and psychological damage, even without firing a missile. The threat of submarine warfare. At this point it should be noted that Iran has not promised to sabotage cables directly, but it has launched deliberately ambiguous messages about possible interruptions or damages. Precisely this ambiguity is part of the strategy. The country has underwater drones, mini-submarines and capable naval forces to operate in the Gulfwhile its regional allies have already accidentally demonstrated in the Red Sea the enormous impact that a simple underwater incident. The real Western fear is not, therefore, a total internet blackout, but rather a chain of disruptions: financial delays, problems in data centers, degradation of business networks or difficulties in repairing critical infrastructure in the middle of a military crisis. In a world completely dependent on data, touching these cables means little less than touching the global economy. The inspiration of the Suez Canal. Tehran clearly looks to the Suez Canal as a model. Egypt has been monetizing for decades its strategic position by charging tolls and taking advantage of the passage of submarine cables between Europe and Asia. Iran wants to partially replicate that logic, although applied to a much more hostile and militarized environment. In fact, the media linked to the Revolutionary Guard they already talk about compulsory licenses, passage fees and exclusive rights for Iranian companies in charge of maintenance. Legally the scenario is complex and many operators will probably ignore the threats while US sanctions are in place, but the simple fact that Iran is openly raising this idea demonstrates how it has changed his strategic vision on Hormuz. The new discovered power. In short, and as we have already seen with crude oil, what is truly important is not whether Iran will one day manage to collect money from the big Western technology companies, but rather that it has discovered a new form of pressure global. For years, Tehran believed that its greatest weapon it was oil. Now you have understood that the world depends even more on invisible data flows that happen under the sea. That is possibly the great geopolitical transformation that Hormuz is currently revealing: a classic maritime strait is also becoming a critical point for the global digital economy. And that means that future international tensions will no longer revolve solely around the control of energy, that too, but also the control of the infrastructure that supports nothing more and nothing less than the internet. Image | Nara, Wikimedia, Collinpetty In Xataka | The war in Iran is doing something that not even Ryanair imagined: making 20 euro flights a relic of the past In Xataka | Dubai has come to the same conclusion as Russia. To protect your oil from drones there is something better than missiles: giant cages

After deploying its data centers in Aragon, Amazon wants to protect Zaragoza from floods

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On July 6, 2023, a torrential storm collapsed the Barranco de la Muerte in Zaragoza, leaving the Z-30 under two meters of water and causing damage valued at 125 million euros, as collects The Herald. Among the affected structures, the high-speed train between Madrid and Barcelona and the capital’s main ring road. This natural disaster made it clear that Zaragoza lacked hydraulic infrastructure capable of absorbing extreme weather events, increasingly frequent with climate change, such as explains AEMET. In response, the City Council made a plan structured in three phases and began conversations with Amazon Web Services, the hyperscaler that Aragón has chosen for its data centers in Spain: the result is a public-private alliance that combines hydraulic infrastructure and real-time monitoring technology with the aim of turning Zaragoza into a European benchmark for urban resilience. Zaragoza, flood-proof. The Zaragoza City Council and AWS with the collaboration of the Government of Aragon and the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation have agreed implement a global technological and hydraulic strategy for environmental risk management. Amazon will contribute 13.8 million euros, distributed in three annual installments. The collaboration has two legs: a physical one, with the construction of hydraulic infrastructure in the Barranco de la Muerte; and another technological, with the deployment of an intelligent early warning platform based on the AWS cloud. Why is it important. This system will benefit more than 700,000 people who live in the Aragonese capital, in addition to protecting critical infrastructure for the city such as the Z-30, the train and entire neighborhoods such as Parque Venecia, today exposed to intense storms. Beyond the scope of the work, this is one of the few cases in Spain where a large technology company directly finances public civil protection infrastructure as a condition of its installation in the territory, which puts a question on the table: what the companies that consume the most resources can and should contribute to the cities that host them. Context. AWS maintains one of the largest investment plans in digital infrastructure in Spain: in 2024 announced an investment of 15.7 billion euros in Aragon over the next decade to expand its cloud infrastructure and new data center campuses in Villanueva de Gállego, El Burgo de Ebro and Huesca. This expansion has a B side: enormous pressure on the territory’s electrical, water and transportation networks. The Barranco de la Muerte is not an isolated case: the Valencia DANA of October 2024 left more than 220 dead and politically accelerated the demand for drainage infrastructure in vulnerable urban areas. Zaragoza, with active ravines and a climate prone to intense convective storms, is one of them. How are they going to do it?. From the point of view of hydraulic works, it is a lamination of avenues combined with sustainable urban drainage enhanced with real-time monitoring. The plan is divided into three technical phases. The first, financed by the council and already underway, consists of a perimeter canal and a retaining wall around the Barranco de la Muerte. The second, financed by AWS, adds a storm tank next to the Torrero Cemetery with a capacity for 20,000 cubic meters, five lamination dams and the improvement of the existing ones upstream of Z-40. The third would bury the ravine as it passes through Z-30 with a collector that would double the current drainage capacity. Added to this is a cloud platform that will combine sensors, artificial intelligence and real-time analysis to monitor flows and launch early warnings. That is to say: the physical infrastructure retains and laminates the water, and the technological infrastructure anticipates when and how much will arrive. AWS support is not only financial: it provides digitalization and predictive hydraulics that multiply the effectiveness of physical infrastructure. Yes, but. The collaboration is a real advance for the city, but it raises uncomfortable questions. The first is obvious: Amazon does not pay for these works out of altruism: its data centers in Aragon are voracious consumers of water and energy, so building water infrastructure in the city is a win-win: it minimizes the risk of supply failures in the event of potential natural disasters and improves its image while strengthening ties with the authorities. Water management is one of the thorny points of data centers and with its proliferation increases scrutiny and protests over the consumption of a scarce good, such as Amazon has already suffered itself in Aragon. On the other hand, for the alert technological platform to be useful, it will be an essential requirement that it be accompanied by proven evacuation and response protocols, which turns an alert into a real solution. How they plan to do it is something that has not been publicly disclosed at the moment. In Xataka | Zaragoza is so full of data centers that Amazon has decided to take one to… a town in Teruel with 900 inhabitants In Xataka | Quietly, Aragón is becoming a data center “powerhouse”: now it has taken a crucial step Cover | David Vives and AWS

some Amazon employees use AI just to inflate their token metrics

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He tokenmaxxing now has its most documented case. Some Amazon employees have been using MeshClaw for weeksan internal AI agent tool, to automate unnecessary tasks and thus inflate your consumption of tokens in the internal markers that the company has implemented. This is not the first time something like this has happened in Silicon Valley: Meta had its own leaderboard tokenswith a winner who took the title of Legend Token. And similar patterns have been documented at Microsoft. But the Amazon case adds a detail that makes it more striking: the tool used to cheat is the same one that Amazon has officially deployed to make its engineers work better. Why is it important. Amazon requires more than 80% of its developers to use AI tools each week and measures compliance using data consumption markers. LLMs. The company has said those statistics will not be used in performance reviews. Several employees have responded with variations of the same phrase: managers are looking at it. “When you track usage, you create perverse incentives and there are people who are very competitive with this,” one of them told the Financial Times. Yes, but. There is a more generous reading. Forcing a large organization to come into contact with new tools has a certain logic: if you force enough people to use them, someone eventually finds a really useful use for them. The problem is that that only works if there is real exploration. An employee who delegates to an agent the task of summarizing emails that no one will read is not learning anything, he is just inflating his metrics. The big question. amazon has committed 200 billion in AI infrastructure whose demand, in theory, is absorbed as it is deployed. If a part of that internal consumption is tokenmaxxing Purely, the figures that justify these requests are less reliable than they seem. The distinction between real adoption and inflated consumption matters because the former generates lasting demand while the latter disappears as soon as incentives change. Amazon has already restricted public access to device usage statistics. When the marker is no longer visible, the behavior it encouraged also changes. Go deeper. The Goodhart’s law He has been explaining this for fifty years: when a measure becomes an objective, it is no longer a good measure. Amazon hasn’t built a system to know if its engineers are using AI well. You have built a scoreboard, and the scoreboards are played. In Xataka | If the question is whether using ChatGPT or Claude in English is more efficient and saves tokens, the answer is: yes Featured image | Xataka

the best deals on Amazon today, May 12

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We are halfway through the week and almost reaching the middle of May. Amazon has surprised us today with a good batch of offers on technological devices (both its own and other brands). These are the best deals in technology that we have found today in the e-commerce giant. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Smart TV TCL 98Q6C by 1,489 euros: 98-inch QD-MiniLED with Google TV. Fire TV Stick 4K Select by 27.99 euros– with early access to Alexa+. Activity bracelet Google Fitbit Air by 99.99 euros– Compatible with iOS and Android. air fryer Ninja MAX Pro by 84.79 euros: 6.2 liters and with accessory and recipe book. smartphone Xiaomi 17 by 899.99 euros: 6.3 inches and with Leica cameras. Smart TV TCL 98Q6C If you want a gigantic TV for your living room, this one from the firm 98 inch TCL It’s a bargain now on Amazon. Now a 32% discount has been applied, so it has gone from costing 2,199 euros to 1,489 euros. The panel it mounts is type QD-MiniLED and has Halo Control. The processor it has is AiPQTM Pro and its speakers are made by Onkyo and are compatible with Dolby Atmos and the operating system under which it works is Google TV. TCL 98Q6C Television 98 Inch QD-Mini LED 4K Smart TV The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Fire TV Stick 4K Select It has only recently been possible to enjoy early access to Alexa+ and this Fire TV Stick 4K Select It is the cheapest device to enjoy Amazon’s improved voice assistant. Now, it’s reduced to 27.99 euros. Supports 4K streamingalthough one of the main negative points for many is that it prevents the download and installation of third-party, external apps and from unknown sources. Its remote has a direct access button for Alexa and supports WiFi 5 connectivity. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Google Fitbit Air activity bracelet If you like monitor your workouts through a device with a minimalist design, this bracelet Google Fitbit Air It’s perfect for you. Now, in addition, it has a discount of more than 30% and remains available for 99.99 euros. This wearables offers 24-hour cardiac monitoring. Is compatible with iOS and Android and its design is that of a comfortable high-performance strap, made with recycled materials and featuring a flexible fit. Google Fitbit Air – Screenless Activity Bracelet with physical activity monitoring The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Ninja MAX Pro Air Fryer Ninja has managed to revolutionize a sector that seemed stagnant, such as air fryers, thanks to its striking and different designs from the rest. Now, on Amazon you can get this airfryer Ninja Max Pro with a 43% discount, since it is available for 84.79 euros. This air fryer Ninja has a 6.2 liter capacity and a very elegant design in black and gold. It offers six cooking functions and in addition to the fryer, it comes with silicone tongs and a recipe guide. Ninja MAX PRO Air Fryer, 6.2L The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi 17 Smartphone that he Xiaomi 17 It is one of the smartphones of the year is something indisputable. If you have been thinking about making the jump to the high-end for a while, now on Amazon you can do it while saving money. This mobile from the Chinese manufacturer has a 200 euro discount and you can buy it for 899.99 euros. This Xiaomi 17 mounts a 6.3 inch screen and its photographic system is signed by Leica, standing out above all for its Light Fusion 950 high dynamic sensor. Its brain is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and its battery has a capacity of 6,330 mAh and supports fast charging of up to 100 W. XIAOMI 17 – 12+512GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Xiaomi, TCL, Google, Ninja and Amazon In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs In Xataka | Best sound bars in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended models from 140 euros

Europe has been depending on Amazon, Google and Microsoft for its most critical data for years. You are about to cut off their access

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The European Commission is taking action. This organization is expected to present its “Technological Sovereignty Package” on May 27. This directive will include a series of measures aimed at boosting the EU’s strategic autonomy in sensitive areas, and that means something unique: stopping depending as much as possible on US hyperscalers to store critical data. The fear of the off button. The measures are being applied due to growing political instability and some recent cases that have demonstrated the power that the US has over the European technological infrastructure. In May Microsoft “cancelled” the email of Karim Khan, a prosecutor who had been directly cited in an executive order from Donald Trump. Microsoft he denied itbut the damage had already been done, and these problems have raised fears that Trump could use a kind of “off button” against European institutions that depend on the hardware and software infrastructure provided by companies like Microsoft, Google or Amazon. Legal espionage. The CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) is a 2018 US law that allows law enforcement to force US-based technology companies (such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon) to provide data, regardless of where it is stored, whether inside or outside the United States. This law updates the Stored Communications Act to prioritize data control over its location. Or what is the same: if you use the services of US hyperscalers, the US may end up accessing your data. And since you’ve accepted their terms of use, you agree to let them legally spy on you if they “need to.” If you want my critical data, you’ll have to protect it. The new regulations require service providers who want to work with critical European data to demonstrate that they are not subject to requests from non-EU governments. This automatically excludes Microsoft, Google or Amazon, because all three are subject to the CLOUD Act. Europe is thus looking for providers that guarantee that critical data will not be in the possession of companies that then have to transfer it to foreign powers. Europe depends on the American cloud. The reality is that today Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure) and Google (Google Cloud) currently control more than 70% of the Cloud Computing market in the old continent. Losing these institutional contracts would mean a significant financial blow, but it also sends a powerful signal to European private companies: if Brussels does not trust the US with its secrets, why should European corporations? The domino effect could be huge. Europe has its own clouds. This directive would give an important opportunity to initiatives that seemed stalled like GAIA-Xbut there are also companies with their own infrastructure such as OVH (France) or T-Systems (Germany). There are significant technical challenges in that area, because US hyperscalers have been refining their offering over the past two decades. However, Brussels seems willing to accept a somewhat less efficient or complete service in exchange for greater autonomy. The options existno doubt, but the challenge is enormous. Migrating is going to be expensive. It is one thing to make the decision and quite another to complete that migration that will require moving decades of data and systems to a different infrastructure. Current data centers would have to be expanded to meet demand, they say some analysisand that would mean a cost of between 14,000 and 24,000 million euros. Consulting companies like Forrester they don’t see anything clear that the EU can achieve cloud sovereignty, and other experts also make it clear that Europe will not abandon the hyperscalers. Traceability. In addition to changing suppliers, the board also wants to impose strict requirements regarding transparency. AI systems that have access to that data must be auditable by the newly created EU AI Office. The Commission wants to know who has access to the code, who maintains the servers and who has the technical capacity to manage and even intercept such data transfers. Data too sensitive. In comments to CNBCEU officials explained that there are active debates demanding that financial, judicial or health data used at the government level and in the public sector have a sovereign cloud infrastructure. That’s also true for military data, of course, and There are already movements in that direction. Fragmented Internet. The move confirms that the world appears to be heading toward a future with a fragmented internet and one that will have important geopolitical boundaries. While the US tries to defend its technology against China, Europe and the entire world are trying to avoid or at least mitigate their excessive dependence on American technological solutions. Image | İsmail Enes Ayhan and François Genon In Xataka | Europe no longer trusts Google. That is why several start-ups are designing an independent payment system on Android

Neighbors in Chile tried to stop an Amazon data center. Justice has left a clear message with its decision

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Artificial intelligence has been part of our lives for a long time, often almost without us stopping to think about what is behind it. We use it as if everything were happening in an invisible layer: models, algorithms and, perhaps, servers in some remote location. But we can also look at it from another perspective. The infrastructure that supports that world is very real: it has a location, consumes resources, requires permits, involves enormous investments, and can also alter the environment of those who live nearby. That is one of the great debates that is beginning to accompany the rise of AI: the cloud also has neighbors. They lost the case. A specific case leads us to Huechurabanorth of Santiago de Chile, where Amazon plans to build a data center. The initiative had received a favorable Environmental Qualification Resolution in July 2024, but not everyone was convinced that the project had been evaluated accordingly. That concern reached the judicial route through a claim presented by Patricio Hernández Valenzuelaa resident of the area, and the Second Environmental Court resolved on April 9, 2026 to reject ita decision that leaves the data center in a position to move forward. A very specific concern. Hernández questioned whether the environmental evaluation of the project had not adequately taken into account a possible high voltage line that, according to his approach, would be necessary to power the data center. The criticism was not minor: if both infrastructures were linked, they had to be analyzed together. For residents, not doing so meant leaving relevant impacts on the environment out of the analysis. The key to the failure. The court’s reasoning involves clearly separating both pieces. The ruling concludes that the data center and the eventual high-voltage line cannot be considered to form a single initiative, among other things because the Amazon project does not include that infrastructure as part of its design. Furthermore, the planned electricity supply does not depend on its own installation, but on the network managed by third parties, which reinforces the idea that these are different projects. Without joint evaluation. Once the existence of a project unit has been ruled out, the court concludes that an integrated environmental assessment is not appropriate. The sentence explicitly states it: “it has been proven that between both initiatives there is no relationship of functional interdependence that conditions their execution.” This nuance is key, because it implies that the data center can operate using the available electrical infrastructure, without the need to subject its viability to a future high voltage line which, in any case, would have to be evaluated separately if it were to be considered. Beyond the legal debate. The Amazon project has very specific dimensions on paper. The data storage center in Huechuraba is designed to operate for 30 years, with an estimated investment of 205 million dollars. It would be built on an area of ​​10.9 hectares, with a construction of 21,350.07 square meters, in the street of Américo Vespucio 1055. From the company, collects Reutershave pointed out that the design of the infrastructure focuses on minimizing energy and water consumption, and maintains that the plan met environmental requirements. Chile as a hub. The Huechuraba project is not an isolated initiative within Amazon’s strategy. Amazon Web Services has proposed an investment of more than 4,000 million dollars in Chile over 15 years to build, operate and maintain its infrastructure in the country. The idea is to turn Santiago into its third major center in Latin America, after São Paulo and the central region of Mexico. Factors such as connectivity through fiber optic cables are added to this context. The concern of those who live nearby. Beyond the investment and digital infrastructure they promise, data centers are often accompanied by very specific concerns: high electricity consumption, use of water for cooling, heat or noise generation, and their fit into environments that, in many cases, have environmental or community value. Google did not have the same path. The case of Amazon is not the only one that has gone through this type of debate in Chile. Google had obtained initial approval in 2020 to build a $200 million data center in Cerrillos, southwest of Santiago. However, the project’s journey was different. In February 2024, the Second Environmental Court decided to partially reverse that permissionand months later the company announced that it would not continue with the initiative as it had originally been proposed, opting to start a new process from scratch for a project in the same location, but with a redesign based on air cooling. Electricity enters the scene. If we broaden the focus, the debate is not limited to a specific project, but to the system’s capacity to absorb this type of infrastructure. A Systep reportpublished on September 23, 2025 with data from the National Electrical Coordinator, indicated that, taking 2025 as a starting point, the electrical demand of data centers in Chile could increase by 270% in five years. The same projection places this consumption at around 1,207 MW in 2030. These figures help to understand why the energy issue has become one of the central axes when talking about the expansion of the cloud and AI. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana In Xataka | In 2024, Big Tech spent absurd amounts of money on AI. In 2025, they managed to spend 77% more

Aragón unlocks the construction of new Amazon data centers after months of previous work

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Aragon is one of the renewable batteries from Spain. That ability to generate energy has put it in the sights of Big Tech that want to establish themselves in Europe with a clear objective: create more data centers. The shark here is an Amazon that has been operating in the region for a few years, but for which the panorama has just opened to achieve what it has been pursuing for some time. Turn Aragon into the “Spanish Virginia”. In short. This is not a simple comparison, since the US state is one of those with the largest concentration of data centers in the world. In Aragon we are about to see something similar. Amazon, via AWShas been operating since November 2022 in the region with data centers in Zaragoza and Huesca. However, the fever for data centers is more recent and the American giant has been behind permits for some time to be able to build more. As they point from El Periódico de Aragón, after the authorizations that the project has been obtaining in the last two years, Amazon will be able to start building. This is an operation that, until now, had been limited to preparing the ground, but with the unblocking of the operation carried out this past Monday by the Government Council, Amazon will be able to begin building the facilities. Extension. This falls into the PIGAthe General Interest Plan of Aragon, will not be limited to the data centers planned in Villanueva de Gállego and Huesca. The idea is that AWS occupies about 800 hectares with around thirty data centers, 10 electrical substations and 12 buildings, and it is something that is being developed in parallel to the plan to deploy data centers in Walqa, San Mateo de Gállego and La Puebla de Híjar. Jobs and money. Landing these plans, during this year’s Mobile World Congress, the American giant advertisement that their plan is to invest 33.7 billion euros in Spain (at the MWC they stated that they were going to double their initial investment) to expand their data center infrastructure in Aragon between 2026 and 2035. The total investment will contribute 31.7 billion euros to Spain’s total GDP until 2035 and will be esteem that the employment impact will be 29,900 full-time employees. Focusing on Aragon, this operation is expected to contribute 18.5 billion to the region’s GDP and provide employment to 13,400 people. These employment calculations include those of local companies, direct, indirect and induced. It’s not that Amazon is going to create 30,000 jobs out of nowhere and long lasting. Energy. Here comes one of the most important questions: whether Aragon, no matter how much renewable energy it has, will be able to face the gluttony of data centers. Because these data centers, in different parts of the computing process, need energy spikes that we are already seeing how they are covered in other countries: gas, nuclear and… coal. In fact, just scaling AWS will add more than 10,800 GWh per year, more than all current electricity consumption of the community. There has been a lot of debate about the water consumed by data centers and, although the figure is not negligible, the energy cost is much higher. And that is where there is some confrontation between the local industry and Amazon’s plans, because there are those who they claim that the concentration of electrical consumption of AWS and green hydrogen macroplants will brake the development of more traditional renewables. Reviews. And then there is the rejection on environmental issues. More and more we see that there are municipalities that They don’t want to live next door of data centers and it is noted that one of the giant’s projects will be based on protected land. The speed at which permissions have been given to Amazon is also criticized. And, then, there are other issues such as the studies that are appearing little by little and that highlight both the acoustic and thermal pollution of these data centers. It is something that is being measured in various parts of the world and, precisely, in some Aragonese towns near centers of data an increase has been observed of 2°C in surface temperature. Not just Amazon. AWS is an example of the ambitious plans in the region, but they are not the only ones. The community is consolidating as one of the ‘lungs’ of hyperclimbers in Europeas well as one of the key regions of Spain for the expansion of data centers and European technological sovereignty Images | amazon In Xataka | The great paradox of Madrid: the region with the largest energy deficit in Spain is losing the data centers

the best deals on technology today (May 6) on Amazon

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Technology inundates us in our daily lives. We live with smart TVs, mobile phones, tablets and countless technological devices every day. If you are thinking of renewing any of your equipment or buying a gadget, these are the best bargains that we found today, May 6, on Amazon. XIAOMI REDMI Note 15 Pro+ 5G – 8+256GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Smart TV LG OLED65G54LW by 1,459 euros: 55-inch OLED and with webOS 25. smartphone Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G by 379 euros: 6.83 inches and with a 200 MP camera. Pack Blink Outdoor 4 + Mini 2K Camera + Blink White by 47.99 euros: a perfect pack to keep your home under control. portable projector TCL C1 by 193.34 euros: with Google TV and 285º rotating support. portable battery Anker by 37.89 euros: with a capacity of 20,000 mAh and fast charging up to 87 W. Smart TV LG OLED65G54LW If before the 2026 World Cup you are thinking of renewing your old TV at home for a high-end modelthis one from LG is a bargain now on Amazon. Before it cost 1,655 euros, but now, you can get it (in this flash offer) for 1,459 euros. This TV mounts a 55-inch OLED evo panel with 4K resolution. It belongs to the G5 series and works under the operating system webOS 25. It is compatible with Dolby Vision & Atmos, as well as the voice assistants Alexa and Google Assistant. LG OLED65G54LW – TV 65″, OLED EVO 4K The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G Smartphone For those who want to change their mobile phone for a mid-range one but with good features, this Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G is a good option. Now you have a discount of 120 euros and you can buy it for 379 euros. This Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro+ 5G It has a 6.83-inch AMOLED screen with 1.5K resolution. Its main camera is 200 MP and its battery supports fast charging at 100W. The processor it has is Snapdragon 7s Gen 4, accompanied by 8 GB RAM and 256 GB of storage. XIAOMI REDMI Note 15 Pro+ 5G – 8+256GB Smartphone The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Blink Outdoor 4 Pack + Mini 2K Camera + Blink White If you were looking for a security camera for your home, in order to have your house under control while you are on vacation or getaway, this Amazon pack will interest you. Comes with camera Blink Outdoor 4 surveillance, the Mini 2K camera and the white Blinkto be able to connect these devices. Its price now is 47.99 euros instead of the 64.98 euros it cost before. The Blink Outdoor 4 is a surveillance camera smart wireless, which serves to protect both the interior and exterior of the home. It has two-way audio and its battery offers a autonomy of up to two years. As for the Blink Mini 2, it is a wired camera that incorporates four-fold zoom and color night vision. Blink Outdoor 4 + Mini 2K+ Blink White Camera (latest generation) The price could vary. We earn commission from these links TCL C1 Portable Projector Now that the World Cup is approaching, if you are one of those who want to watch big games without spending a fortune on a TV, this TCL C1 projector It can be a good investment. Now you can buy it on Amazon for 193.34 euros. This projector from the TCL firm comes with Google TV operating system and incorporates an 8 W speaker compatible with Dolby Audio sound. It supports 4K and HDR10 and offers 230 ISO lumens. It has autofocus and a 285º rotating support. In addition, it incorporates WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.1 connectivity. TCL C1 4K Portable Projector Compatible The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Anker portable battery If you are one of those who suffer thinking that your cell phone is going to run out of battery on a trip, getaway or even on a daily basis, this power bank by Anker It’s on sale now on Amazon. It used to cost 49.99 euros, but now you can get it for 37.89 euros. This portable battery from Ankekr has a capacity of 20,000 mAh and comes with an integrated USB cable. Accepts fast charging up to 87 W and incorporates two USB-C ports and a USB-A port, so you can charge up to three devices simultaneously with it. Anker 20,000 mAh Portable Charger with Integrated USB C Cable The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Anker, LG, Xiaomi, TCL, Blink and Iván Linares (Xataka) In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs In Xataka | Best sound bars in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended models from 140 euros

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