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China is building the largest telescope in the world. The question is why he is doing it in secret

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In the select club of first level astronomical observatories, all projects They are advertised to hype and saucer decades in advance. China instead is building a gigantic telescope of 14 and a half meters on the Tibetan plateau without having officially announced it. US suspicions. An article of Wall Street Journal He has raised the hare. A telescope of that size would not only rival the most powerful observatories in the West, but, if it was terminated in time, it would temporarily become the largest terrestrial optical telescope in the world. The question that, according to the Journal, resonates in Harvard’s halls and NASA is not whether they are building it, but why they do it stealthily. The clues that arrive from China. Robert Kirshner, Emerrito Professor of Harvard and leader of the thirty -meter telescope, The American project that Spain now wantsit has been one of the main detectives in this plot. The clues, although discreet, are overwhelming: In January, the state company Nanjing Astronomical Instruments published on social networks that it had gained a tender of 22 million dollars to build the dome of a telescope with a mirror of 14.5 meters In April, some students who visited a scientific institute mentioned in another publication that the researchers had shown them the configuration of the mirrors for a telescope of that same size An outstanding Chinese astronomer declared state media that one of its objectives was to finish “the 14.5 meter telescope” before its retirement Beijing has adopted a low profile. The anomalous thing about this case is that Chinese institutions also do not celebrate their technological sovereignty with the usual triumphalism in this type of project. China, which does not hesitate to celebrate other space milestones, here has opted for a low profile. A clear trace of tenders. Technical documents are scattered, but paint a clear image of an advanced development project. The main test is the tender of its most visible component: the dome. A public announcement of the Chinese Academy of Sciences He was looking for offers for the “Project to Acquisition of the Dome of the Optical/Infrared Telescope of 14.5 m”, with a deadline set for November 2024. On the other hand, a memorandum of China National Astronomical Observatory It justifies the purchase of infrared detectors, describing the project as “a great astronomical telescope to achieve the top of science and technology.” In parallel, published job offers For “the general purpose of the general major caliber in construction in our country.” I even looked for personnel for the system engineering file managementan unequivocal sign that the design phase had given way to the construction. Why not announce it then? Matt Mountain, president of the Aura organization, which manages the Observatorios Hubble and James Webb for NASA, raises two hypotheses. The first is military: A telescope capable of obtaining crisp images of a galaxy to millions of light years can also observe with an unprecedented resolution The spy satellites of other nations in space. The domain of heaven is not only scientific, but also strategic, as We have been seeing in the Earth’s orbit For years. The second hypothesis is a long -term play for technological leadership. Mountain describes it brilliantly: “Astronomy is the entrance drug for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.” Investing in inspiring projects such as a giant telescope is the best way to encourage a whole generation of young people to study Stem races, ensuring that China can overcome the United States in the coming decades. The biggest telescope for a while. To understand the magnitude of this project, you have to put it in context. The Hubble space telescope mirror measures 2.4 meters; The Webb, 6.5 meters. The four largest optical telescopes on Earth are around 10 meters in diameter. If China completes its 14.5 meter telescope soon, it would dwarf all existing observatories until the new generation They will see the light. Precisely these days the thirty -meter telescope (TMT) has been on everyone’s mouth (TMT) that the United States was going to build in Hawaii. After becoming one of the victims of Trump’s science cuts, the Government of Spain has offered 400 million euros To be built on the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands. Although its final location is yet to be decided. Image | Universidad de Pekín In Xataka | For the first time we have pointed to heaven with a 3,200 megapixel camera. In just 10 hours he has done several years

Mark Zuckerberg is building mansions in Hawaii as if there were no tomorrow. No one knows what

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Mark Zuckerberg is putting target legs with his Galactic signings For his Superintelligence team, and also Hawaii, where he has been buying land and building buildings more than a decade. So much later, what is pursued there is still an unknown, especially in terms of details as a mysterious and giant underground bunker. Zuck continues to buy and build to expand his complex megalomaniac. In 2023, We knew the existence From Kolau Ranch, a new mansion that Mark Zuckerberg was building surrounded by luxuries. The figures left no doubt about the magnitude of the project: a minimum of 270 million dollars (counting only the value of the land and the main work) and 500 hectares. According to a new investigation of WiredAt the beginning of the year there has been a new purchase of land totaling almost 400 hectares. In total, today the property of the CEO amounts to approximately 930 hectares. The expense? More than 300 million dollars. Because. It is the great mystery, nobody knows what plans exactly in mind. An old project employee summed up well the secretism that surrounds the constructions of the Meta CEO project: “It is the fight club. We do not talk about the fight club.” Behind this difficulty in obtaining information, even in the field, are strict confidentiality agreements signed by the workers. They have sworn silence and expose themselves to lose their jobs if they talk to the press. What is building exactly. The first part of the plan, in which there was an investment of at least 270 million, included two huge mansions with dizzy figures: 500 hectares, an underground shelter of 460 m2 and a dozen buildings with at least 30 rooms and 30 bathrooms. Now Zuckerberg is building three large more austere buildings (so to speak), more functional and far from opulence. According to the information that Wired has been able to access, each one has 16 rooms and, in common, share a space of 120 square meters. The global size of the buildings range from 700 to 1,000 square meters. The confirmed. Brandi Hoffine Barr, representative of Zuckerberg in Hawaii, has confirmed to Wired that the new buildings will be used as guest housing: family, friends and staff. Not only are they 10 times larger than the middle house of the archipelago: two of them will cost between 3.5 and 4 million dollars. One of the most enigmatic parts of the megalomaniac project of the Meta CEO is its underground bunker. Regarding this, what he said is that it is not a bunker For the end of the worldbut “A small shelter, A basement“ It has encountered a funeral problem. While Zuckerberg has been put in founding mode To recruit the major Galactic team of artificial intelligence (AI) and assemble Data centers in tentsKauai’s properties, in Hawaii, have not brought him very good news, according to Wired. Zuckerberg’s property is on a cemetery where Julian Ako’s ancestors, a local resident. And a local fight. After negotiations, Ako has made access to the land to register the tombs of his great -grandparents, because he knew that his great grandmother and her brother are buried there. The local community fears that if more remains appear, it is not notified due to the confidentiality agreements signed by the workers. According to Ako, if they discover more bones and communicate it, construction workers put their jobs into play. The problem is not new, because in its first purchases, in 2014, Zuckerberg had to deal with the rights that the premises had on their property. Despite this, for now, nothing slows Zuck. Representative Brandi Hoffine Barr acknowledged knowing the idiosyncrasy of the land in 2015, and states that they fenced and maintained the fossal part. Millionaire’s trend buying in Hawaii. Mark Zuckerberg or is the only billionaire who with his investments aggravates the problem: Jeff Bezos, Oprah Winfrey either Marc BenioffCEO of Salesforce, have also disbursed huge amounts of money for giving parts of the islands. Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, who recently has unseat Zuck as a richer man, Buy Lanai Island almost completely. The consequence? The locals had to leave. With a huge consequence in the state. Although Zuckerberg is resorting to philanthropia and financing non -profit organizations, his investment is contributing to a problem of the islands and global: extremely expensive housing and away from the financial possibilities of local citizens. Prices is triggered from the pandemic, when many rich and Teleworking They moved to the paradisiacal environment. Influence in other billionaires. The publication of the Zuckerberg plan and his giant bunker has influenced In the rich bunkers market. Al Corbi, founder of Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments (SAFE), told that the request for information on the construction of these elements increased considerably when Zuckerberg’s plans were made public. According to Corbi, recently bunkers “have grown a lot in size and stature”, pointing to details such as equipment to keep a family for a week. The question is whether they will have a Pendrive with Ia. Outstanding image | Braden Jarvis in Unspash, Goal In Xataka | Larry Page wants to get lost on an island, but it is not decided which. So you bought five

There are regions of Spain that are building more houses than homes. And not even the wrings even go down

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That Spain suffers A housing deficit It is no novelty. Just as it is not that construction is unable to advance to the rhythm of formation of new homes. ACI, the Real Estate Consulting Association, has just published however A study that reveals something curious: there are 11 provinces in which it is built faster than new homes are constituted. The striking thing is that, although a priori that ‘surplus’ suggests less pressure in the market, its prices do not soften. On the contrary, they grow, as in the rest of the country. Asturias leaves A good example. A fact: 134,649. That is the real estate deficit that Spain accumulated last year according to The last report DE ACI, the Spanish Association of Real Estate Consulting. In this way it may sound abstract or too theoretical, but the data reflects something very simple: the mismatch between the number of housing and the new homes created throughout 2024. While the former stayed at 86,609, the seconds, which grow at much higher speed, amounted to 134,649, aggravating the housing shortage that Spain suffers. What are the reasons? “This lag shows the structural difficulties facing the promoter sector in Spain, derived from both the shortage of finalist land and the increases in construction costs, normative restrictions and delays in urban processing,” concludes The report, which recalls that the 86,609 houses delivered are also below the forecast of new homes. The 2024 deficit is also added to the one registered in recent years and that ACI estimated at 349,934 Since 2020. The association is not the first to warn of the difficulties that Spain is being found to adjust the creation of housing to the formation of New homes. In May the Bank of Spain estimated the lack of housing in Between 400,000 and 450,000 units in the period 2022-2024, an elevated figure, but that moves in any case of the huge hole of 600,000 that indicated in its 2023 report. Analyzing the map in detail. The most interesting thing about ACI study It is not so much the photo at the national level as its details, the information provided by each community. The reason? Although in most cases the delivery of housing was unable to cover the creation of new homes, enlarging its residential deficit, the agency identified 11 provinces in which the result was the inverse. That is, the volume of built houses covered (and exceeded) the creation of households. That is the peculiar situation in which Asturias, Burgos, Cáceres, Ciudad Real, León, Palencia, Salamanca, Soruel, Teruel, Valladolid and Zamora were found, to which the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla are added. Although they got off the general trend of Spain and closed 2024 with ‘residential surplus’, their effect was barely felt on the national balance. Among those 13 territories there are only a plus of 5,005 homes above the houses created. Province Housing delivered New real homes Difference 4th quarter price of 2023 (€/m2) * 4th quarter price of 2024 (€/m2) * Asturias 1.820 257 1,563 1,347.2 1,473.1 Burgos 808 462 346 1,169.3 1,212.3 Cáceres 1,344 267 1,077 849.7 873.4 Ceuta 71 41 30 1,827.3 1,937.5 C. Real 722 655 67 712.5 725.5 Lion 403 62 341 889.8 914.8 Melilla 182 150 32 1,827.3 1,937.5 Palencia 373 -46 419 931.1 954.7 Salamanca 485 220 265 1,218.1 1,230.7 Soria 460 247 213 939.8 968.7 Teruel 305 267 38 819.2 891.4 Valladolid 1.116 970 146 1,309.7 1,374.6 Zamora 152 -316 468 804.4 836.4 National Total 86,609 221.258 -134,649 1,842.3 1,972.1 *The prices are extracted from the official registration of the average appraisal value of the free housing that the government publishes quarterly Why is it interesting? So it reveals to us from the market. Although there are many buyer profiles (investors, families interested in a second residence or people who want to take a property and then dedicate it to the holiday rental), which in those 11 provinces (more Ceuta and Melilla) the delivery of homes exceeds the creation of households suggests a lower pressure of the demand on supply. And that, a priori, should move to market prices. Asturias leaves an especially interesting case. According to Data published by ACIthere last year 1,820 homes were delivered and 257 new real homes were recorded. The balance remained in green numbers with a positive balance of 1,653 homes. The second example is found in Cáceres (1,077), where he accounted for 1,344 homes delivered to 267 new real homes. And what happened to prices? They grew up. Despite this lower pressure in the market and that there was no mismatch between supply and demand for new homes, the house continued to take care. And that tells us about the key weight of other factors, such as costs or demand diversification. Government data on the appraisal value of the house shows that at the end of 2023 the square meter (m2) of free housing in the Principality was at 1,347 euros. A year later it was already at 1,473. The increase was therefore 9.35%, not very different from 9.43%of Madrid and several points above the state average, of 7.05%. If we turn to idealist the photo is similar. The real estate portal estimates that in December 2023 the residential M2 for sale cost in the Principality 1,371 euros and in the same month last year it was already 1,471. In summary: an increase of 7.29%. In THE CASE OF MADRID (Province) There are differences with respect to official appraisal data. During the same period it has passed from 3,208 to 3,771, which leaves an increase much greater than that of Asturias, of around 17.5%. A rising market. The Principality data does not surprise if one takes into account that its real estate market is on the rise. The latest data from the General Council of Notaries, published recently by The voice of AsturiasThey show a 19.9% growth in housing sale operations and an year -on -year increase in the price of 7.7%, although their … Read more

You are building a Data Center in Tents

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Mark Zuckerberg already has the galactics he needed for his Superintelligence team. Getting talent was only part of the plan. The other is what to do with him, and putting it to work requires one thing: computational power. The goal has been in a hurry and, while progressing in different directions, it has begun to build data centers in outdoor tents. As amazing as it sounds. In the finish line they are marking their own rhythm to lift data centers. Given the emergencies that have entered them to add computational capacity, they needed to build data centers as quickly as possible, and the shortcut has been to build them in outdoor tents. This is something that confirmed Business Insider A company spokesman. That they are doing it does not mean that it is common: it is not about adding power without more, but doing so that the integration of the equipment does not put at risk the energy and cooling sustainability of the system. It is surprising that they will use tents, especially in summer, given The difficulties they add to heat management. Zuck making Musk. Zuckerberg’s measure reminds another rival in the race for winning artificial intelligence, and is not accidental. Elon Musk already made the madness of installing 100,000 NVIDIA GPU in 19 days, something with which Jensen Huang hallucinaba himself. In SEMIANALYSISthe first means to reveal the pharaonic finish lines, said that the design of the finish lines is influenced by the speed with which Musk has operated in XAI and in Tesla. Facebook in its beginnings was the company that led the “Move quickly and break things“And now shows that philosophy is still alive, as in OpenAi. The great plan. While finishing tents, Mark Zuckerberg announced They were going to “invest hundreds of billions of dollars in computing to build superintelligence.” In practice, he mentioned the construction of two mega data centers. The first will be Prometheus, which they intend to use since next year. Second, they will build ‘Hyperion’, with which he presumes that he will have A size similar to Manhattan and a capacity of up to 5 gigawatts over the next few years. The tents are provisional until they reach the fixed power they pursue. For contextualizing the numbers, in SemiSalysis Remember that, so far there is no Clusters NVIDIA H100 and H200 operations of more than 200 megawatts. Why so much haste. The context is everything. Goal was very well positioned in the artificial intelligence career, despite the fact that its great commitment of the decade was metaverso, where I was burning huge amounts of money. However, everything changed with flame 4. The last great language model of the company not only disappointed in its principlesbut has been overshadowed by such powerful competition as O3, Claude 4 either Gemini 2.5 Pro. In the finish line they are so aware of the lost competitiveness that His artificial intelligence by default to program is Claude. Yes, above Code flame. In any case, investors do not seem worried about The spectacular goal stock cycle. Having the best thing will be much more than talent and models. The goal plan to put the head of artificial intelligence shows that the race will have many legs. First, Zuckerberg has done with the talent of his great rivals. In second place, acquiring de facto Scale aihave ensured to have quality data. But it is not enough. Access is needed to a brutal calculation capacity, which will obtain with the aforementioned data centers. And that is where the race also becomes energy: goal goes launched by nuclear energyreaching nuclear AT THE CLOSURE. And goes further, with the construction firm of a plant that will use a technology focused on Take advantage of underground heat without leaks. Images | Mark Zuckerberg | Goal In Xataka | We have calculated how much money the Big Tech are being spent on data centers. The numbers are dizzy

China is building the fusion-fission reactor that the US canceled decades ago. The future of nuclear energy depends on your fate

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In the newly built Yoohu scientific island, next to the city of Nancheng, China advances discreetly in its plans to materialize a project that the United States explored and abandoned decades ago: the hybrid fusion-fission reactor. Xinghou-1. His name means “spark”, and is inspired by an appointment by Mao Zedong: “A single spark can set the entire meadow.” But it’s no small thing: it has behind An investment of more than 200,000 million yuanthe equivalent of 28,000 million dollars. The objective: build a hybrid central with 100 megawatts of electrical power, 300 megawatts of thermal power and, most importantly, a plasma energy gain factor (Q) greater than 30. An unprecedented achievement that could redefine the future of nuclear fusion nuclear energy. What all this means. To understand the magnitude of this objective, you have to put it in context. The nuclear fusion, the same process that feeds the stars, promises clean energy without the radioactive waste of current nuclear fission. The great challenge is get a fusion reaction to generate more energy of which consumes. The National Ignition Facility of the United States achieved in 2022 a historical milestone with a value q of 1.5demonstrating for the first time a net energy gain. The International Experimental Thermonuclear Reactor (Iter), a gigantic multinational project that is being built in France, aspires to achieve a Q> 10 to demonstrate the viability of large -scale fusion. Xinghuo, however, points to a Q> 30, the threshold that experts consider necessary for a merger plant to be commercially profitable. How does China plan to make this giant leap? The answer is in your hybrid approach. A fusion-fission reactor. That is, a reactor that uses the high energy neutrons generated by a fusion reaction (the “spark”) to bombard a mantle of fistible material such as uranium. This triggers a fission reaction that greatly multiplies energy production. In essence, use the fusion as a catalyst to make the fission much more efficient. The Xinghuo-1 project has already entered into the initial phase, which includes the tender and evaluation of its environmental impact. Its development is in charge of the state company Nuclear China Industry 23 Construction Corporation (CNI-23) and the private company Lianovation Superconductor. The road that the United States abandoned. The concept is not new. During the 1970s and 1980s, the United States Department of Energy investigated hybrid reactors before political priorities changed. Concerns about nuclear proliferation (hybrids can be used to produce plutonium) and a strategic commitment to “pure fusion” such as the definitive and cleaner solution led to the abandonment of this line of research. United States, and with it much of the West, They put all their chips on projects like the iter. China, on the other hand, has seen a shortcut in the hybrid model. While pure fusion follows decades away from its commercialization, a hybrid reactor like Xinghuo could connect a merger plant to the electricity grid much earlier. As soon as in 2030, According to SCMP. A coordinated national commitment. Xinghuo is part of a well -financed fusion ecosystem. China also maintains the East project, a Tokamak fusion reactor that has been able to maintain a 100 million degrees plasma for more than 17 minutes. The Huanliu-3 project, a newer and more powerful tokamak in experimentation phase. And the CFETR project, A large -scale pure fusion reactorconsidered the Chinese equivalent of Iter. The success of Xinghuo not only depends on its own advances, but also on the development of a complex industrial supply chain for key components such as superconductor magnets and the thermal vacuum chamber. If China makes Xinghuo work, either in 2030 or 2035, the implications would be seismic. They would demonstrate the viability of a route to commercial fusion energy that the rest of the world abandoned long ago. He could put Beijing years, if not decades, ahead in the energy race. Image | Xinhua In Xataka | The largest nuclear fusion project fails before the first ignition: Iter delays one of its key milestones at 2033

France is building a high security megacárcel for its most dangerous prisoners. 7,000 kilometers from France

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In 2024, 110 people They died In France for reasons linked to drug trafficking and another 341 were injured in accidents or account adjustments. Although they are lower figures than those of 2023 —139 dead and 413 injured – in the Ministry of Interior they consider that they remain unacceptable. Your solution: attack the problem at the origin. 7,000 kilometers … and with a jail. The plan. Gérald Darmanin is the Minister of Justice of France and, a few weeks ago, advertisement The opening of 2028 of a new maximum security prison. As we say, curiously it will not be on European continental soil, but in the French Guiana on the other side of the Atlantic. In an interview, Darmanin commented That the goal of this third high security prison in France is to “leave out of the most dangerous drug trafficking profiles.” And, precisely, that those drug traffickers are at that distance from continental France will contribute to “take them away lasting their mafia networks.” Cocaine route. French Guiana is a overseas territory in France. Previously a colony -but abolished as such after the French revolution -, this French territory has established itself as a key platform for cocaine traffic from Brazil and Surinam Towards Europe. The figures scare: esteem that between 15% and 20% of the cocaine that enters France does it through the French Guayana-Paris route. It is done through “mules”, person (young and single mothers, especially) who are pushed by situations of extreme poverty to accept about 7,000 euros per successful trip to Europe carrying the merchandise. And the estimate It is that, on each flight from Cayena (the capital of the territory) to Paris, they travel between 20 and 30 mules, of which one third manages to pass without attracting attention. The jail. France’s goal is to build the new prison in the commune of Saint-Laurent-Du-Maroni. It will be about seven kilometers from the urban center and very close to the border with Surinam, one of the hot points of that cocaine route. The budget My dear It is about 450 million euros and the intention is that the complex, in addition to the prison itself, includes a court to expedite all judicial processes and procedures associated with inmates. It will have capacity for 500 inmates, of which 60 will be classified as “maximum security” and another 15 as “terrorists”, with a wing especially destined for those more dangerous inmates and will not only serve to fight drug trafficking, but to give a respite to the other prison of the French Guiana, a Rémon-Montjoly that has a capacity for 614 inmates and houses almost a thousand. And that inmates nickname “Dry guillotine“ Past ghosts. It may seem like a fissure plan to build a maximum security prison in the heart of drug trafficking towards your main territory, but far from it. The problem, or one of them, is all that it entails … and the historical precedent. Inspired by chow the British used AustraliaNapoleon III established a criminal system in the French Guiana that served as the main overseas criminal colony of the country from 1852 to 1953. In that century, especially the Salvation Islands and the Diablo Islandthey became the point where both common criminals and political prisoners shared space. They performed forced labor, severe punishments and there was a very high mortality rate: 75% in the blackest points. The few who could return to France told their stories in the place, making public opinion promote the gradual closure of the facilities that are currently Tourism focus. And fear. And how we read in BBCthe idea of ​​returning to the French Guiana that condition of ‘overseas prison‘He has outraged his population. A local deputy, Davy Rimane, considers that it is a unilateral decision by France, since they have not had the deputies of Guayana and that “transferring criminals from high level to Guayana, people who France do not want, return us to a terrible past, painful and full of suffering.” Because they are not only drug traffickers, but also Islamist terrorists who will be relocated to this prison. Rimane points out that they are not “the France dump.” Also in statements to BBC, the criminologist Marion Vannier of the University of Manchester considers that it is “a bad idea” to go from wanting one jail to relieve the other present in the country to devise a new system in which there are dangerous prisoners and high -level drug traffickers. “ As we say, the idea is that France has its new overseas prison from here to three years, but we will see if the plans are fulfilled because the Francaguayans do not seem happy with the idea of ​​returning to that dark past 70 years later. Image | Ministry of Justice In Xataka | That crazy occasion we wanted to fix Europe by dividing it into 24 radial cantons

We finally have Noah’s videos building his ark, Jesus Christ multiplying fish and Eve being tempted. Thanks to the AI, of course

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It has all the meaning of the world: according to the generative IAS They become more and more sophisticatedcontent creators to use and pull social networks are making more and more spectacular videos. And among those who are being applied the most to launch amazing content we have Christian devotees, who are taking advantage of the abilities of artificial intelligence to spread passages from the Bible with an overwhelming realism. Word of God. It is not very clear where the trend began, but it is having a disproportionate reception. At the forefront of these contents are accounts as SECRETOSDELABIBILA0 (more than 500,000 followers) Lokiprosperity (with almost 50,000) or Vlogsbiblia (with more than 30,000), which feedback to each other and parasitate, so it is not very clear where the proverbial eggs and chicken of these contents are. What are they going. The contents are diversified according to the poster, but all coincide in what focuses the profile of ‘Vlogsbiblia’: passages of the Bible recreated with AI and in which the protagonists narrate in the first person and looking to the screen, looking at it as if they were recorded in a mobile. Is not recreated in the ARCA CONSTRUCTION, Daniel in the lions pitthe Multiplication of breads and fishMaria pregnant with JesusJesus Before being crucifiedEva making routines of Skincare In Eden or the same Eva being tempted. In all cases there is a certain sense of humor derived from anachronism and a few harmless jokes at the expense of ICTs Influencers They are surprising, but it is not the only possible approach in this clash between Christianity and generative artificial intelligences. Bible stories. The most popular of these profiles, ‘Lossecretosdelabiblia0’, also recreates with the passages with more traditional planning, such as small films. This also enters beliefs that touch not very traditional Christian teachings: the recipe for A bread that gives immortality And that is in the Bible, the return of Jesus with apocalyptic dyesthe complex angelic mythology, Crazy Giants of four meters in the Old Testament and warnings against the PASCUA EGG PAGANISM. An extensive task of propaganda of faith with videos that reach the seven million views. The sanctification. Undoubtedly, the ‘Los SecretosDeBiblia0’ videos are among the most realistic that have been seen on social networks. They do not allow, evidently, pieces generated by AI, but the relative naturalness of voices and images is a jump with respect to, for example, the first and still grabbed videos of ‘Lokiprosperity’, of simple evangelical advice starring A Jesus emerging between the clouds either asking permission to enter your home. More than enough, in any case to get donations from the target audience of these videos, the same people who believe that the nonsense of AI What do Facebook are real are realand that invariably comment with “blessings” or names of verses. In this last type of videos, which respond to ask how “Are pigs demons?“And they have a marked apocalyptic tone, profiles like ‘focus like’Prophets of Labiblia‘(More than 800,000 followers). Our particular favorite? A video that proposes an unusual cross between evangelization by AI and the tics of influencers that make Jesus, Mary and his disciples in Podcasters. The Christianization of Tiktok. These types of accounts are part of a unique use of social networks by religious currents of great penetration in Spanish -speaking users. We have already talked about profiles that offer an innocent, almost harmless version of Christianity: Bible readers They customize their books, nuns turned into authentic Influencersand a larger scale, groups of Pop music like Hakunawhich manage to add thousands of listeners thanks to the diffusion provided by Tiktok or Instagram style platforms. Hashtags like #christiantiktokwith more than 22 million publications or #JOVENESCRISTIANOSits equivalent in Spanish, with almost five million, are flag bearers of this incursion of the youngest in social redees. Although in the case of these videos generated with AI there is an extra pecuniary component: all profiles link to courses to learn to make digital and evangelizing chrys yourself. Public attentive to all this there are, of course.

Dubai is building two buildings signed by Bugatti. That means being able to park your supercar in the 52 -floor hall

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Someone drive a supercar Through the streets of Dubai it is something as usual as a humble Dacia Sandero travels the streets of any city in Spain. The difference is that, park those cars valued at millions of euros In the living room of a luxury attic on floor 52, it may also become common, provided you have the 54.5 million that one of the floors cost one of the most exclusive residences in the world: the Bugatti residences by binghatti. He projectwhich will be delivered at the end of the year, is located in the coveted Business Bay area, a few minutes from Burj Khalifa and the Dubai Mall. With its design inspired by the curves of its supercar and an offer of unprecedented services, the Bugatti residents promise to become the New exclusivity symbol And sophistication in the city, something that has already caught the attention of well -known names worldwide. A luxury of 52 plants designed by Bugatti The Bugatti Residences are the result of the collaboration between the legendary French car brand and the Binghatti real estate developer. The complex is composed of two towers of 52 plants which will house a total of 182 luxury apartments. Those apartments are divided between 171 Riviera Mansions and 11 Sky Mansions Penthouse. In other words, 171 intermediate floors, and 11 luxury penthouses equipped with all kinds of exclusive luxuries and services. The exterior design draws attention to its curved lines and elegant finishes, reflecting the aesthetics used in the design of Bugatti cars. That differentiates Bugatti buildings from any other skyscraper in Dubai. Bugatti Residences offer apartments between two and four bedrooms, with surfaces that in many cases exceed 1,000 square meters. The prices start from about 4.75 million euros for two bedroom apartments, 9 million euros for three bedrooms, and up to 13 million euros for four bedrooms. Prices within reach very few pockets. Atticos or Sky Mansions, such as Neymar, start from a price of 32.5 million euros although its price can be increased depending on the required customization. Without a doubt, one of the largest attractions of the building is the possibility that residents arrive conducting their supercar and can park them directly In the living roomeven if it is in one of the penthouses with 51 floors under their wheels. This fruslería is possible thanks to a system of car elevators that directly communicates the parking lot of the building with the living room of some of the floors. In this way, owners can exhibit their vehicles as One more decoration pieceenjoying panoramic views to Downtown Dubai and Burj Khalifa. “The first Bugatti residence is designed with incomparable luxury comforts, which include a beach inspired by the Riviera, private pool, spa with jacuzzi, gym, chef table, private parking and private club service,” says Bugatti in Your official statement. Neymar Jr, the star tenant of the Bugatti Residences Among the most outstanding buyers of the Bugatti residences It is found Neymar Jr., that has acquired one of the Sky Mansionsthe most luxurious option of the building, for the negligible sum of 54.5 million dollars. The exclusive attic of Neymar Jr. in Dubai includes one of those private elevators for vehicles, in addition to a private pool with privileged views to the city. As explained The promoter“This acquisition consolidates not only Neymar’s position as one of the most outstanding figures of world sport, but also Dubai as the epicenter of high -end real estate.” Muhammad Binghatti, CEO of Binghatti, added that “our collaboration with Bugatti aims to offer a unique and exclusive life experience. We wanted to create a space that not only reflected luxury, but also a sense of pride and distinction for its owners.” Neymar is not the only millionaire soccer player interested in the Bugatti building. The Spanish Aymeric Laporte also It has been awarded one of the luxury penthouses, as well as the singer of Italian opera Andrea Bocellialready They have announced that will be neighbors of the Brazilian star. The rise of brand architecture Bugatti’s foray into the real estate sector is part of A growing trend Among the supercar manufacturers, which seek to transfer their design and exclusivity language to high -level residential buildings. Brands such as Pagani, Porsche, Bentley and Mercedes-Benz have developed similar projects in Miami and Dubai, such as the Porsche Design Tower, the Bentley Residences and the Mercedes-Benz Places that Binghatti herself is building in Dubai. All of them have in common characteristics inspired by engineering and luxury that each brand applies in the manufacture of its exclusive cars. These projects respond to the demand of a millionaire clientele who wants to live surrounded by same level of sophistication enjoy when they put themselves at the wheel of their cars. In Xataka | A youtuber has a car that is worth four million euros. To drive it you have to pay 7,000 every 60 kilometers In Xataka | The Magarigawa Club: the private luxury circuit in which the millionaires conduct their supercar Image | Binghatti

IA consumes so much energy that the United States is building data centers directly in natural gas wells

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What makes a startup dedicated to building data centers get 11.6 billion dollars in financing. In the case of Crusoe Energy Systems, it all started with an idea as disturbing as profitable: build data centers with natural gas wells. Crusoe Energy’s idea Journalist Emily Chang de Bloomberg visited a few weeks ago The city of Abilene, in Texas, where Crusoe is building the monstrous Stargate data centers, The 500.00 billion project OpenAi, SoftBank and Oracle to develop general artificial intelligence. Stargate arrived at Crusoe Energy thanks to the demonstrated efficiency of the startup in the construction of specialized data centers in AI. Chase Lochmiller, the CEO of Crusoe, explained to Chang how the company was born: “When an oil company opens an oil well, one of the associated by -products is natural gas. And when they do not have access to an pipeline, all this associated gas simply burns in situ. So we had an idea: instead of trying to take that gas to a market where you can sell, we could create a market for gas. We could build mobile and modular data centers, take them direct data”. Crusoe was born in the best possible place to materialize this idea: the country of fracking. But maybe not at the best time to do it. Initially, they chose to build GPUS farms to undermine Bitcoin. When the cryptocurrency market collapsed, they ended up pivoting artificial intelligence. Like crypto mining, AI data centers are not based on CPUS but depend on the parallel processing capacity of thousands of GPUS, mainly Nvidia specialized chips. These new data centers consume much more energy than traditional data centers, so Crusoe started from a key advantage: their direct access to fossil fuels that obtained at the price of bargain. A booming business Oil giants are not oblivious to this trend. Exxonmobil is developing Off-Grid gas plants specifically for data centers with carbon capture technology to reduce emissions. Chevron, meanwhile, It has been associated With Engine No. 1 and Ge Vernova to mount similar facilities. The first will open in 2026, also in Texas. The figures are eloquent: the demand for natural gas for data centers will be increased by 47 GW from here to 2030. Currently, natural gas already feeds about 40% of the loading of data centers in the United States and is expected to continue being the main source of supply up to at least 2030. It is not the preferred energy source, but There are not enough renewable to feed artificial intelligence and Not all data centers They can be connected to a nuclear power plant, another common occurrence in the United States. As for Crusoe, thanks to the initial push of natural gas that were going to burn oil companies they developed their own technologies, such as a closed cooling system that does not need to renew The water evaporating the serversor own gas turbines, such as 360 MWs that are installing in the Stargate project as a backup energy source. Stargate data centers will feed mainly solar panels and wind turbines, which abound in Abilene for the confluence of wind and sunny hours. It is one of the reasons why data centers are being built in this Texas area, in addition to the tax exemptions that local governments are willing to yield in exchange for employment generation. It remains to be seen how many employees have everything built. Image | W.Carter (CCO) In Xataka | Microsoft will reopen a nuclear power plant that has been closed since 2019. It needs it for its artificial intelligence

Sam Altman is building an empire with Openai. One with some lights and with many shadows

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Sam Altman is a master of empathy. He listens to you as if you were the most interesting person in the world, learn what he needs about you and his speech fits what you want. And so convince you. It is one of the first conclusions that Karen Hao arrives in her new book ‘Empire of ai’. In it we are narrated OpenAI origins and its evolution Thanks to hundreds of interviews with employees and former employees of the company, in addition to those made to professionals from other companies in the artificial intelligence industry. Altman is loved or hated, there is no middle ground We actually know the story – in Xataka We have been Speaking of Openai – but what Hao proposes to us is a visit to what happens behind the scenes, contributing many details that help us understand the past, present and perhaps the future of the company. Many of those details focus on the figure of Sam Altman, which does not go especially well stopped. Brilliant as a seller of apparently impossible projects, Altman is sparse in words in his communications with other colleagues. Write emails with a single word, “Meet”to arrange appointments, and sometimes use a simple “?” Because who writes less seems to win the game. Of that Jeff Bezos knows a lot. That, of course, when I wrote something, because according to Hao Altman leaves almost nothing written. Everything is verbal, something that allowed him to argue after people did not remember well what he had talked to him. The opinions of those who talk about him in the book are significant. One of them commented that “it is so attentive. But partly uses it to find out how to influence you in different ways.” Others commented how Altman avoids expressing negative emotions and also confrontation. He dodged the word “no” in conversations with other people. “Others began to see him as someone diabolically capable of beating situations in his favor.” Ilya Sutskever, one of the co -founders who came after her differences with him, left A disturbing statement: “I don’t think Sam is the right person to be the one who has your finger on the AGI button.” OpenAi lives his own ‘Game of Thrones’ Paul Graham, his mentor in Yc Combinator, left two citations that leave a clear idea of ​​what Sam Altman is like. In the first commented that “you could throw in parachute to an island full of cannibals, return in five years and he would be the king.” In the second reinforced That vision of his protégé: “Sam is extremely good when it comes to becoming someone with power.” It is something that Hao often mentions in the book and that makes it clear that Altman does very well one thing: win the battles for power. There are two clear examples, also known. The first, when managed to snatch Musk The direction of Openai at the beginning of that unique adventure. The second, when After his scandalous dismissal He returned more force than ever as the almighty CEO of OpenAi. Those two moments in the history of this company are actually reflecting what happens in any empire: the view seen is usually impeccable, great, powerful. The hidden face is full of internal conflicts and wars, battles for power, and rivalries and differences of criteria that end badly. In all these battles an Altman was imposed again and again that according to Hao used a singular tactic: he changed his speech according to the interlocutor. What he had told A was often what he had told B. The problem arose when A and B were talking about what Altman had told both of them. That also happened with Openai’s original vision. Created as a laboratory for the development of a beneficial for the world, The approach would change soon. To share knowledge and details about its models, the company became a secretism bunker. Seeking to be the AI ​​monopoly Like Oppenheimer, Altman Believe That “technology occurs because it is possible”, and like others before him – including one of his mentors and friends, Peter Thiel – his goal (such as his competitors, of course) is clear according to Hao: What he wants is to create an AI monopoly. We have seen that with the evolution of their models, increasingly powerful, and that They were there to earn money. That was the vision that has ended up winning. The other, to try to develop a safe and “aligned with the objectives of the human race” has been in the background. In fact Hao reflects it well in the book. If Openai is leading the AI ​​career today it is not only for having been the first to launch a chatbot like Chatgpt, but for its apparently disproportionate climbing. He has invested more than anyone from the beginning. To start, to capture talent. When the project began to create OpenAi Ilya Sutskever, I worked in Google Brain and was already considered a superlla of this segment. The rest of the founding members were offered a salary of $ 175,000 and shares of YC Combinator or Spacex. But Sutskever was offered almost two million dollars annuallybut Google counteroffierted on a bid whose final figure is not known. What is known is that Sutskever ended up abandoning Google to sign for Openai –And then leave it-. In 2016 of the 11 million that Openai spent, seven were for salaries. Initially the company “did not really know what I was doing,” explains Hao: few of the things they worked worked, and those who did it “seemed little original or something someone had already done.” There were more ambitious bets. It is demonstrated by the famous demo of that kind of “GPT 2.5” that made Bill Gates in April 2019. Until then those who investigated the development of foundational models of AI did so training those models with a few dozen gpus. Darío Amodei – who ended up leaving Openai to co -confound … Read more

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