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There are alternatives if you don’t want to depend on Google Drive or other US clouds. Internxt is one of them and it only costs 16 euros per year

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Having cloud storage is ideal for giving your cell phone or laptop a break. You upload your photos, your videos or your files there and you always have them at hand. Most people tend to go directly to the most popular clouds like Google Drive or iCloud, services that have nothing wrong, but there is something in common: They are owned by US companies. There is a trend that increasingly attracts more people than Try to depend as little as possible on services from this country. If you are one of those people or this is something you have been thinking about for some time, then you might be interested in betting on a European cloud service like Internxt Drive: if you use the code ‘XATAKA‘ you have 1 TB of storage per 16 euros per year. The price could vary. We earn commission from these links A cloud of Spanish origin that includes VPN and antivirus Internxt is a company of Spanish origin and is ideal if, as we said above, you are looking for a cloud service that is not from the large US tech companies. The cheapest option costs 16 euros per year and includes 1 TB as we said a little above, but includes VPN and antivirusmaking it a very complete package at a very attractive price. What can we highlight about this cloud? Internxt uses what is known as ‘Zero-Nowledge’ or ‘Zero Knowledge’. This means that their servers store your photos or files, but they cannot access these files in any way. In fact, Because they don’t store, they don’t even save your password. You will not lack privacy. Then there is the issue of end-to-end encryption. This company encrypts your files before uploading them to the cloud. This way, even if someone intercepts your data while you are sending it to the cloud, they will not be able to access it. In fact, its service is already prepared to even combat against quantum computers when these arrive in a few years. If you are concerned about the whole issue of privacy, it is also worth noting that Internxt is open and transparent sourceso anyone can access it through GitHub. What does this mean? That its entire architecture is transparent, so it cannot hide any type of function or secret way so that your data ends up in the hands of third parties. Premium Plan: 3 TB of storage, VPN, antivirus and cleaner per 31 euros per year (or 377 euros for life) Ultimate Plan: 5 TB of storage, VPN, antivirus, cleaner and meet per 47 euros per year (or 507 euros for life) 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 | Internxt In Xataka | Google Drive alternatives: the best cloud storage services for your files In Xataka | Best VPNs 2025: guide with the 17 best services to protect your online privacy

India has bombed clouds to improve its terrible air quality. They have wasted 400,000 dollars

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The sky of New Delhi is a painting. While half the world is focused on reduce your emissions and improve air quality (something that ultra-polluted giants like China are successfully implementing), the other half continues with inefficient decarbonization policies. India is one of themand the arrival of winter does not help. To combat its poor air quality, the country has “sown its clouds” about New Delhi. And there are voices that suggest that they have spent a fortune and it has not been worth anything. Crisis. The situation of the large cities of India, with the focus on a capital that has more than 28 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area and a density of almost 6,000 inhabitants per km², is really complicated. Vehicle emissions account for 40% of emissions in the city, but there are other sources such as construction dust, inorganic aerosols or industrial activities themselves that contribute a lot. ‘dirt’ in the city air. The quality is not good at any time of the year, but in the post-monsoon season, between October and November, the situation becomes critical. It is when a large amount of rice stubble and other waste is burned, which, together with the rest of the sources of particles since the arrival of cold air traps the pollutants near the ground, causes the amount of particles to skyrocket. And it’s not a joke: esteem that between 2009 and 2019 there were nearly four million deaths in India linked to poor air quality. Figures. To measure this “dirt” in the air, we turn to PM2.5. It is a measure of the amount of fine particles that are suspended in the air, specifically those that have a diameter equal to or less than 2.5 micrometers. They are so small that they can penetrate deep into the lungs, reaching the blood system and posing a serious health risk. That said, PM2.5 levels in Delhi are between 140 and 170 µg/m³, almost 12 times higher than the safe levels set by the WHO, of 15 µg/m³. Petter Ljungman, a researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, analyzed the role of these particles and determined that “each increase of 10 micrograms per cubic meter in the concentration of PM2.5 leads to an 8.6% increase in mortality.” Bombing the clouds. In the face of a crisis like this, two things can be done: become aware and rethink the country’s strategy or resort to desperate measures. As we read in Reutersit seems that the Government has opted for the latter. On October 28, the Delhi government in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur carried out the first tests of cloud seeding. This is India’s first attempt at this technique and it is not about “creating clouds”, but rather making the existing ones release water. Using a series of catalysts launched from aircraft, water droplets contained in a cloud can be made to coalesce into larger, heavier droplets. In this way, and due to their own weight, they fall to the ground in the form of rain. It is not something new because, although it may seem like something out of science fiction, we have been “sowing” clouds for half a century. Negative… results. The problem is that each time we have had more and more evidence that it is something that is of little use. If clouds are good candidates, yes, showers are generated, but the big problem is that it is a very expensive practice for the results obtained and that is the reason why more and more countries have abandoned his projects related to this “creation” of rain. In the case of the Indian experiment, the cost was about $400,000 to put into operation the planes that dispersed sodium chloride and silver iodide over several districts north of the capital. Each of the flights cost about $70,000 and the person who said that it was not of much use was not an external entity or someone critical of the Government: it was the director of IIT Kanpur himself. Manindra Agarwal admitted that the results were “not as desired” because the humidity levels in the clouds were extremely low. It was a crucial error because it is estimated that the minimum for condensing these cloud droplets is 50% and the chosen ones had levels between 15 and 20%. Despite this, Agarwal commented that a reduction of between 6% and 18% was observed in certain particle measurement parameters, but they were at very localized and short-lived moments. deaf ears. And of course, faced with the investment of such a fortune without results, it did not take long for the voices to say “I told you so” to rain down. Climate activists said it, but also two other official bodies: the Indian Meteorological Department and the Air Quality Management Commission. The two organizations indicated That the technique requires specific clouds that are absent during Delhi’s cold, dry winter. Recommendations. In the end, what this action demonstrates is that, in desperate situations, desperate measures only work as a source of funds. The solutions must be considered more in the medium and short term and this is something in which China has served as an example. In the case of India, what is being proposed is control over stubble burning during this autumn season, better waste management and stricter industrial regulations. On the other hand, the country has taken giant steps in recent years in terms of transport electrification is concerned, but progress must also be made in improving urban forestry that “traps” pollution and in the use of large-scale renewable energy. Until they do that, the almost 30 million inhabitants of New Delhi will breathe air equivalent what they would inhale if they smoked seven cigarettes a day. Images | Naomi E Tesla, Submitmpsd In Xataka | The Atacama salt flat is the key on which the electric car industry pivots. And it’s starting to dry

Renfe withdrew the avlo-barcelona avlo forced. And now prices are in the clouds

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Prices have risen 40% in the Madrid-Barcelona corridor. It is the conclusion they arrive in Trainline, a company that looks for the best prices and schedules when we want to travel by train. The departure of the Avlo de Renfe trains is pressing the upward market and the average of the ticket is already above 70 euros. The exit. The news arrived at the end of August and is underway since September 8: Renfe only offers bird service Between Madrid and Barcelona. The company took out its Avril trains, which offers the service Low Cost of his classic high speed trips. The movement came after Renfe suffered various pressures related to Failures in those Talgo S106 that made the Avlo route in said corridor. This summer, one of those trains cracked and despite the company’s attempts by hide the problem and manage the crisis with a low profile, Finally ended up withdrawing them. Prices shoot. Since then, Trainline, which adds the prices of the operators so that the user finds the prices and schedules that suck him, ensures that the average price is now 40% more expensive than a year ago. They assure that now, The average ticket price To move between Madrid and Barcelona exceeds 80 euros. The data is motivated by the AVLO output and the use of variable prices that are adjusted based on the demand. With an operator Low Cost Less, these tickets are now absorbed by AVE and the starting price already increases. That explains, according to The avant -garde That the cheapest ticket is already at 50 euros and reach up to 150 euros on a Sunday afternoon. Expensive, but not so much. The Madrid-Barcelona corridor has long been experiencing a price increase. Although in the first Compasses ouigo and Iro, they lowered the train prices, it was expected that little by little they will rise over the months and years. More in a corridor that in the second four -month period of the year moved to 3,944,879 passengers and has a very high occupation rate, According to CNMC data. This agency publishes a report every three months with the performance of Spanish high -speed companies. The most recent refers to Q2 and does not collect, therefore, the current increases, but it does notice that the average price of the tickets had already been 63.14 euros, with a 15.3% increase over the same period last year. That increase was marked, without any doubt, by a generalized price increase between the low cost. Ouigo rose 18.7% and Iroo 22.5%. For his part, Avlo was the one that less took care of the three, with a rise of 14.5%. The same but more expensive. In the absence of knowing a more complete photograph (which will not come to the next year when the CNMC publishes the September data this year and the last quarter), what is clear is that Avlo’s departure has meant very bad news for the passenger. On average, Avlo tickets were the cheapest seconds on the market in the second quarter, with a price of 51.95 euros. The jump to the bird is important since the average of these tickets reaches 73.91 euros. But, in addition, the increase in prices will be substantial because Avlo moved 14.7% of all travelers who moved between Madrid and Barcelona. That means that almost 580,000 runner travelers have to get a place in some more saturated ouigo and Iro or, on the contrary, assume the cost of traveling in AVE. What can we expect? However, Pedro García, responsible for Trainline in Europe, says that “as a whole, it is still cheaper than before liberalization, although leaving customers without a low -cost option directly affects the price of tickets”, in words collected by The avant -garde. However, we must bear in mind that if the tickets have been more expensive in the corridor since Renfe faced competition, it is because the demand rewards it. The occupation rate in Madrid-Barcelona is so high that it justifies a slow but constant rise. And a good example of the good health that Renfe enjoys in the corridor is that Ouigo derived trains that he had in operation in Madrid-Barcelona to the Andalusian corridor because he believes that he can be more competitive there. This last corridor seems more sensitive to the price where the differences between AVE and the Low Cost They are narrower and the cost for travelers are settled. Photo | Xataka and Logan Armostrong In Xataka | Renfe has proposed to improve once and for all vicinity. And Madrid will take a pinch of 400 million euros

The price of gold is in the clouds so that has created a new criminal business: “narcomineros”

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In Stilfontein, an ancient mining town in South Africa, neighbors no longer fear the void of abandoned tunnels, but to strangers who arrive in cars loaded with rifles. “A few days come, they buy tools, they disappear,” said a local merchant. They are not traditional miners. They are armed bands that dispute, underground, an increasingly valuable booty: gold. Similar scenes are repeated in the Forests of the Amazon, in the Colombian Cauca rivers or in the tunnels of the Peruvian Andes. What was artisanal gold fever has become a silent war. The precious metal that in London or Dubai represents refuge and financial stability, in the field is stained by mercury, blood and organized crime. Goldery Fever of the 21st Century. According to Reuters estimatesthe price of gold has tripled in the last decade and rose more than 25% only so far this year. On August 21, the ounce, a historical record was quoted around $ 3.331. Amid inflation, commercial wars and geopolitical tensions, investors seek in gold which always represented: security. But that fever does not translate only into bullion in vaults. It has also unleashed a metal race in the most fragile areas of the planet. The SWISSAID NGO has counted in a report that 435 tons of gold – about 31,000 million dollars – came out of contraband of Africa in 2022, twice as much before. In Peru, the first producer of South America, the regulatory authority itself calculated that 40% of last year’s gold exports were illegal. For its part, the UN He has warned that organized crime is already embedded in global gold supply chains. “The mafias are earning more money with gold than with cocaine,” has summarized for Financial Times Sasha Lezhnev, Anntry analyst. From the subsoil to the global market. A report for Financial Times He has detailed it quite accurately, since the illegal scheme is repeated: the metal leaves an Amazonian garimpo, an abandoned mine in South Africa or a site controlled by paramilitaries in Sudan; Cross borders by smuggling or with false licenses; He arrives in Hubs like Dubai, Switzerland or India; and once molten in standard bullions, it is integrated without friction to the international financial system. In Dubai, indicated as a “washing machine” of the world gold, it is enough to pay in cash to obtain refined bars with Emiratí seal. From there they re -export to Switzerland, London or Hong Kong. A merchant He has admitted it Non -Rodeos: “We are not going to buy gold. We acquire it in the wholesale market, we give the money and receive it. No one asks where it comes from.” Modus Operandi Global. On the one hand, in Latin America, groups such as the Gulf clan in Colombia or the PCC in Brazil already operate mines and dredgers. In Peru, almost 40 workers have been killed in deposits. On the other hand, in South Africa, the calls Zama Zamas They work under the control of mafias in abandoned mines, where authentic underground wars are fought. In Sudan, gold finances the RSF militia, accused of atrocities in the civil war. Logistics remembers drug trafficking: clandestine flights, improvised clues, corruption networks. With a crucial difference: while cocaine is always illegal, gold is legalized at the moment it merges into a ingot. The consequences are devastating. According to FTMercury poisons Ríos del Amazonas, fauna disappears and communities such as Yanomami suffer hunger, malaria and violence. “When the Garimpo arrives, diseases and drugs arrive,” explained the indigenous leader Juarez Saw. In South Africa, entire villages survive around ghost mines, trapped between poverty and violence. And in Sudan, gold has become a fuel of a civil war that already adds more than 150,000 dead. Governments against the strings. States try to react, with partial achievements. In Brazil, the Lula Government destroyed camps In the Yanomami Earth and boasts a 98% drop in illegal mines there and 40% less in gold exports. But the miners return when the operation ends. In South Africa, the police cut access to tunnels, without stopping the power of the mafias. In Sudan, international pressure has forced Dubai to harden purchase controls, although in his gold of gold there are still ingots of uncertain origin. The pattern is repeated: local corruption, territories impossible to monitor and criminal networks better financed than the states themselves. The formal market, innocent? The legal circuit is not alien either. The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) sets global standards, but is a private club and traders club. Its liquidation system concentrates world trade without public supervision. The European Central Bank warns that the opacity and concentration of the gold market represent a risk for global financial stability. Bernhard Schnellmann, former director of the Swiss Refinery Argor Heraeus, He has synthesized it in his opinion column for FT: “Gold is too important to leave it in the hands of private clubs.” The new oil of the crime. The gold, eternal symbol of wealth and security, is today the new oil of the crime: a resource that feeds mafias, destroys jungles and finances wars. For investors in London or Dubai it is an active refuge. For clandestine miners in the Amazon or South Africa, it is a promise of escape that often ends in violence. In the vaults, a 400 -ounces ingot is identical regardless of its origin. But behind each bar can hide rifles, malaria, corruption and poisoned rivers. Image | Pexels and Africraigs Xataka | The price of copper reached maximum for a tariff that was not. The result: the biggest fall in almost 40 years

We have centuries studying the different types of clouds. What tells us the shape and color of these atmospheric phenomena

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The atmosphere of the earth hides about 12.9 billion liters of watermore or less. And a good part of that water is in huge clouds that we see fly over our heads as if nothing. These huge atmospheric objects captivate our imagination in childhood, but we often stop thinking about them during our day. Knowing them can help us pay attention to them. What is a cloud The clouds are essentially water, a lot of water. Steam -shaped water, small drops and Even small ice crystals that remain in suspension in the atmosphere. This water becomes visible when condensed, generating a contrast with the blue of the sky. The clouds circulate in the atmosphere dragged through the differences in pressure and the wind that they generate. They also move as a result of the land rotation itself, since the solid surface of the earth does not rotate in the same way as the atmosphere. The clouds can be of very different types that we classify according to certain conditions, such as the height to which they occur. For example, when the clouds are formed at surface height, we do not even usually refer to them as such, but as a fog. But the fog is still a type of cloud. How a cloud is formed The atmosphere keeps water vapor, small H2O molecules that are mixed with the other gases that make up the atmosphere. The amount of water that the atmosphere can store in the form of gas depends on factors such as temperature and pressure. There is a threshold from which the atmosphere Water “sat”and that is when this water can begin to accumulate. This accumulation is good when the amount of water increases or because atmospheric conditions make the threshold reduce, and implies that the molecules go from being a gas in suspension to form microscopic water drops. When these drops, still in suspension, accumulate, the clouds are formed. Types of clouds and characteristics The clouds are usually classified according to two fundamental characteristics: Your altitude in the atmosphere and its appearance. According to its altitude, three types of clouds are distinguished (with an additional case), groups that the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) call of “high floor” (the highest altitude), of “middle floor” (intermediate altitude) and those of low floor (those of minor antura), to which we must add the clouds of vertical development. There are different terms with which referring to these clouds, for example we can speak sympleously of high, medium and low clouds. High floor clouds The high -floor clouds are those that are at heights between 5 and 13 kilometers on the ground, and include cirro, circoum and cirrostrates. Cirrus: According to Explain Aemetcirrus are clouds of the high floor, separate and “in the form of white and delicate filaments, or banks or narrow, white or almost white bands.” Cirrus. Piccolonamek, Commons. CIRCOUM: It is a thin layer of clouds, white and shadowless, “very small elements” in the form of grains or undulations. Circummers. King of Hearts. CIRROSTRATE: These clouds for their part acquire the appearance of a “cloudy veil”, also transparent and rather white, only that this type of clouds covers the sky, totally or partially, producing “halos.” Cirros and its characteristic halo. SeanMack Medium floor clouds The clouds of the middle floor are located at heights between two and seven kilometers, and can also be of various types: altocumulos, high, and nimbostratos. Altocúmulos: The altocumulus are already located at medium heights. It is a bank or cloud layer that can be white or gray. Its structure can varybeing formed by “tiles”, “rounded masses” or “rollers”, structures that, in turn, can be “partially fibrous or diffuse,” Explain Aemet. Altocumulos. Bidgee Altostrates: This layer of clouds usually has gray or bluish colors, it can also have a fibrous appearance, it is characterized by totally or partially covering the sky allowing to distinguish vaguely, but unlike cirrostrates, it does not produce halos. Altostrates. Famartin. Nimbostrates: These clouds form an already dark gray layer, with “appearance veiled by rainfall or snow precipitation”, rainfall that usually falls from it more or less continuously. Nimbostratos. Famartin. Low floor clouds The low floor clouds are those located at heights of up to two kilometers and can be of two types: strata and strata. Stratocumulous: Again clouds that can acquire a gray color, or, on other occasions, whitish with dark parts. Stratocumulous. DjClimber. Strata: Generally gray clouds, uniform base (relatively), which can produce drizzle. The halos in this cloud only occur when very low temperatures are reached. Strata. Couch-Scratching-Cats. Vertical Development Clouds Finally, vertical development clouds can also be of two types: clusters and cumulonimbos. Clusters: These are clouds that arise in isolation, dense and well -defined contours. These clouds develop vertically with the form of “protuberances”, “domes” or “towers.” Clusters. Piccolonamek. Cumulonimbos: Finally, the cumulonimbos are clouds that Aemet describes as “Amazacotadas and Dense”, of vertical development “in the form of a mountain or huge towers.” On his cusp, a top “smooth, fibrous or striated.” Cumulonimbos. NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division. How much water is there in a cloud? The clouds are ethereal objects, “cotton” and with a density low enough to keep afloat at a certain height in the atmosphere. However, they are also huge, so the amount of water they can house is enormous. A few years ago, a group of researchers proposed answer the question How much water is in a cloud. The truth is that the answer can vary greatly since the volume of these atmospheric phenomena can be the most diverse. However, the team made an estimate based on a 0.5 grams of water per cubic meter of cloud. The team took as reference an average cluster, an cloud that would have a cubic shape and a kilometer long. The result: this imaginary cloud would contain about 500 tons of water. Larger clouds, of course, would be able to house an even greater amount of water. In Xataka | “We are changing the clouds”: … Read more

Something weird is happening with the clouds of the planet. Something that will bring not very pleasant consequences

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Where are the clouds born? The answer to that question can become much more complex than it seems. Because yes, the clouds are formed in the sky, or in the atmosphere, but the layer of gases that surrounds our planet is vast and in it intermingle predictable factors with chaos. Complex and changing. Trying to answer this question, some scientists have encountered an additional problem: the place where the clouds are born It is changing. The area of ​​the earth’s surface in which these clusters arise has moved and has shrunk what has important implications in the climate and weather of the planet. They are the results of two studies published in recent years, The first In August 2024 in the magazine Climate Dynamicsand The second In May of this year in Geophysical Research Letters. Three cloud stripes. The first of the studies observed how the cloud areas located on the oceans of both hemispheres have moved and contracted throughout the last 35 years. The study focused on three zones: one, called Interopical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) located near Ecuador Earth; and the other two located in average latitudes, approximately between parallel and 60 north and south. Through observations of instruments such as the modis (Moderate Resolution Imptotroadiometer) On board the Aqua satellite, the team was able to map the areas of greatest cloudiness as well as their evolution over time. Interpreting the data. According to The US Space Agency explainsNASA, the tormentous clouds that run through our planet are usually forming in the vertices of large -scale atmospheric circulation areas, such as hagley cells, polar and hard -latter cells or average latitude cells. More specifically in the areas where the currents associated with these cells converge and make warm and humid air ascend. In contrast, the convergence areas where currents carry cold and dry air from upper layers of the atmosphere to lower altitudes correspond to the areas where the heavens tend to be more clear. Change in the trend. The study of the clouds gives us clues about the dynamics of these torments of the planet. The responsible team calculated for example that the area contracted between 1.5% and 3% per decade In recent years. As NASA details, the ITCZ ​​narrowed and the tormented areas in average latitudes moved to their respective poles at the same time that they also contracted. In contrast, the subtopics clear areas expanded. More than a matter of color. The most recent of the studies addresses the climatic implications of change in the cloud patterns of the planet. And it is that the climate our “blue marble” depends a lot on the clouds that overshadow the atmosphere and dye it occasionally in white since this layer of clouds depends on the amount of solar energy that reaches us due to the albedo. The clouds reflect the light and therefore the solar energy that reaches the surface of the Earth, so less clouds implies more energy and more heat. According to study estimates, change implies that oceans absorb 0.37 watts per square meter more per decade due to these changes. And climate change? We could fall into the error of assuming that this change explains the tendency towards global warming that we associate with anthropogenic climate change but the truth is that climatic models already incorporate these changes into them. In fact, a previous estimate made by the instruments of Ceres (Clouds and The Earth’s Radiant Energy System) estimated at 0.47 watts per square meter and for decade the increase in solar radiation that the planet receives as a whole. These changes contribute to the “energy imbalance” that implies heating, but they do not explain it for themselves. “These new findings suggest that the loss of oceanic tormented clouds is a key factor in the imbalance,” He explained George Tseliudis to NASAmember of the team responsible for the studies. According to the expert, these changes could also Help explain The anomalo oceanic warming seen a couple of years ago and that caused the North Atlantic to beat numerous temperature records. In Xataka | The clouds are each time a more scarce resource. And some countries are already “to war” for them Image | Michala Garrison, Modis Atmosphere Science Team / Tseliudis et al (2024), Dscovr Epic

With housing for clouds, Spain had never won so much with rentals

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If we talk about housing, Spain has always been a country of owners. Twenty years ago the percentage of households that resided in a house in its name It was 80%compared to just 9.5% rented (at market price). Things have changed since then. While families residing in their own homes remain a large majority, lease He has gained strength. That demand increase, added to tourist rental boomha Turned prices In recent years, especially in big citiessuch as Madrid or Barcelona. That reality has had an effect Beyond the market, in the rent of Spanish households: profits related to real estate has reached a record level. What does that mean? That those who pay income do so more expensive than everbut those who charge them have seen how their profits grew so much that, together, the country’s households had never entered so much through that way. The (Great) Footprint of the Rentals. The increase of rentals and The increase of tourist housing has not only tension the real estate market, deriving in protests such as those summoned to early April in dozens of cities in Spain or the famous “Key Revolution” held in October 2024. Its effect has also been clear elsewhere: the pockets of the landlords. Those who charge income, either for the rent of a home, a place or a garage, has seen how that source of income for their own domestic economy He shot In just a few years until reaching records. In fact, household revenues for that reason are in its highest level Since at least 1995. A percentage: more than 90%. The data is interesting for several reasons. First, because we usually think of large investment funds when talking about rent, the reality is that more than 90% of the properties that are leases as habitual housing and market price are in the hands of individuals. Natural persons. No societies or vulture funds. In fact, societies are owners of 8%. He reveals it The Bank of Spain in a recent report with data from 2021. The second reason is that in Spain they receive income from the rental of properties More than three million of people. A figure: 31.5 billion. If we can have an exact idea of ​​how much it ascends and what this huge flow of income related to the rental of properties, from houses to premises or garages, is thanks to the Tax Agency and its collection reports. In latestpublished recently and whose content has analyzed eldiario.es, it is revealed that last year the profits by leased real estate amounted to 31.5 billion euros. That is the fact of what homes perceive. To him would be added what they perceive through companies. It is the largest data of the historical series published by the Tax Agency, which dates back to 1995 and that except for some exceptions (for example between 2019 and 2020, coinciding with the pandemic) has maintained an ascending curve. As a reference, in 2023 the gross income of households related to the lease of real estate remained slightly below 29,600 million. If we look at 2008, he added 16,123, which has almost doubled since then. Gross household income (millions of euros) 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2024 Furniture capital 18,156 11,948 14,749 22,710 15,842 14,801 30,767 Leased properties 5,980 8,087 12,027 16,485 17,881 22,680 31.504 Patrimonial gains 2,452 11,619 24,808 10.507 13,320 18.122 28.818 Total capital income 26,588 31,654 51,584 49,701 47,043 55,602 91.089 Does the report relieve anything else? Yes, that this increase has consolidated the rental of real estate as the main capital income in Spanish households. What does that mean? For fiscal purposes, capital income is the income achieved thanks to assets such as investments, properties sold or rents, among others. In 2024 the latter (rentals) added 31,504 million euros, while the furniture capital remained at 30,767 and the heritage earnings in 28,818. That the first has climbed so much is not just due to the market or the rental boom. The Treasury himself has narrowed the siege to the tourist rental, which has made homes that were rented without declaring have emerged in the eyes of the Treasury. Why is it important? Because it was not always the case. In 2008, Spanish households entered 16,123 million through the lease of real estate while Furniture capital (Bank accounts, bonds, titles, etc.) generated about 22.7 billion. Coinciding with the increase in income via rent, Eldiario precise Another curious circumstance: rentals, furniture capital and heritage gains (surplus value of homes or shares) represent just over 10% of the total homes of households. It did not happen since 2008. The main homes of households remain those associated with work, which last year exceeds 753.4 billion euros. The income of the companies and other concepts complete the general photo exceeding 57.3 billion. What tells us about the sector? That the income of the homemade grows up is interesting in themselves, but it is still another symptom of the situation of the real estate market. Its increase coincides with the increase in rentals (of more than 90% in the last decade, according to The data of the idealist portal), The boom of the tourist floors and an increasing In record time. At the same time and given the difficulties in saving, achieving financing and becoming a owner, the rental option is gaining weight as a vital option. The INE estimates that in 2021 15.9% of households They resided in rent. In 2011 that percentage was two lower points (13.5%). Interestingly, a very similar figure, 15.5% of households, had second residence, which places them in the group of potential families that become homemade. Images | Nicolas Vigier (Flickr) and Joan Ggk (Flickr) In Xataka | Idealist has calculated the “effort rate” of the Spaniards to pay the rent. The panorama is not encouraging

bananas prices are in the clouds and the explanation is as simple as it is difficult to solve

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At the beginning of the year, The Nightmare of the Canary Islands banana lasted 24 months. From January 2023 to October 2024, only in three months of the 22 the banana has had a “remunerative” price. The situation was terrible, almost unsustainable. And then, the penultimate week of February arrived. Since then, continuous increases in the price of the Canarian bananas have created a situation that we have not seen for a long time: up to four euros per kilo in the supermarket and 1.5, in origin. The banana is in the clouds. What is happening here? That is, how is it possible that the situation has changed so much in such a short time? And the answer, although it is the product of two different situations, is surprisingly simple. The first is the week cuttingl. As analysts recognize, on the islands, the weekly bananas cutting has been reduced. At the beginning of March (the latest estimates available), The figures were “Below eight million a week and even seven, which means much less embedded fruit.” That, by pure offer-demand, tends to raise prices. The second is banana scarcity. Because yes, the banana (the “banana dollar”) is the main competitor in the peninsular Spain of the Canarian banana. In fact, As Román Delgado explained in the Canary Islands now“Last year, half of the market share of this fruit in Spain has already been clear.” Well, the shortage of Canarian banana has coincided with banana shortage. The result is that, well, prices have shot. Above all, because the demand has remained. So Sergio Cáceres has recognized itManager and director of Marketing and Communication of the Association of Organizations of bananas producers of the Canary Islands (ASPROCAN), the organization that brings together 100% of the Canarian producers. And it is not uncommon: as we have learned with olive oil, The inelasticity of demand It is the main trick of national producers in times of crisis. So … the problem is already solved? The answer is also simple: no. Of none menra. To start because There are not two good months that can ‘cure’ the wounds caused for 24 bad months. Current prices are a good news, but teaching producers accounts requires some commercial stability. And not four euros per kilo. It doesn’t take so much. Just have remunerative prices for a prudential time. Secondly, for something that is closely related to this: the market is terribly volatile. The commercial chaos of recent weeks makes anyone really know what will happen to product flows worldwide. Who can assure that all bananas will not reach Europe in Europe that cannot be sold in the US (for tariffs)? Carpen Diem. Anyway, it would be fool not to celebrate that the islands have left their peculiar silver nightmare. It only remains to expect prices in the supermarket to begin to normalize and the increases do not erode the demand. In the coming years, we will have to make many decisions around the agricultural sector and the better we get to them, the better. Image | Kamila Maciejewska | Doğan alpaslan demi̇r In Xataka | If the question is what to do with the millions of bananas that Canary Islands throw every year, there are already those who are clear: wine

There are European companies that want to become independent from the clouds of Amazon, Google and Microsoft: they will not have it easy

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Cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure have become fundamental tools for governments and companies of all sizes in Europe. Logic is simple: instead of investing in their own servers, they can access powerful technological resources under a payment model for use. It is a scheme that has given good results for years, but in recent times certain inconveniences have emerged. To the costs, which in certain cases are higher than expected, new concerns of geopolitical nature are now added. These concerns began to gain strength with the return of Donald Trump to the White House, and are taking some actors in the old continent to consider a change of course. Europe begins to look beyond the United States A little over a week ago, about a hundred European organizations They signed an open letter Aimed at Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, already Henna Virkkunen, EU digital manager. They claim “Radical actions“To reduce the dependence on foreign digital services. The document urges to bet on local solutions, covered by hardware to cloud platforms. Practically in parallel, the Parliament of the Netherlands approved eight motions that ask the Government to replace the software and hardware of American origin for solutions developed by local companies. The intention is to sign new contracts with Dutch suppliers that offer equivalent services and, in a broader look, reinforce the country’s digital sovereignty through a national cloud based on local technology. In addition, as Wired points out, European suppliers such as Exoscale – a company based in Switzerland – are registering a notable Increase in demand of their services, promoted by customers who seek to move away from the American cloud giants. According to his CEO, Mathias Nöbauer, even in Denmark there are companies that are distanced by tensions between the Trump administration and the Danish government For the matter of Greenland. There are still no signs that European governments and companies are moving in mass to local alternatives is happening right now, although as we have seen, there are several initiatives underway and some actors taking the first steps. An exodus would be bad news for American technological ones, who have adopted several changes in recent times to protect European clients and prevent them from fleeing to other platforms. In this context, some foreign companies have begun to install servers within the European Union with the aim of ensuring that the data is stored in Community territory. At the same time, security systems have been implemented that limit access exclusively to the clients themselves. As we mentioned before, cloud services are the basis of many fundamental components that work without pause. A complicated task from where he looks at her Change the cloud supplier It is not a simple decision. Beyond whether it is an American or European platform, every migration process implies a high workload, possible interruptions in operations and meticulous planning. To this are added specific risks, such as the loss of data or compatibility problems between systems, especially when the architectures are not aligned. Even in ideal scenarios, where everything goes as planned, the process can be more than desired. The necessary time will depend largely on the size and complexity of the organization, as well as the services involved. In companies with critical operations, a provider change requires more than will: strategy, technical resources and sufficient margin to absorb any unplanned impact is needed. Images | Alexandre Lallemand | DC Studio In Xataka | In full tariff war, the EU has found a weapon to press the United States: soybeans

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