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Amazon increases its investment in Spain to 33.7 billion euros. All, of course, for data centers

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amazon has announced that will expand your investment in data centers in Spain, and this amount will now reach 33.7 billion euros in total. Today’s announcement adds 18 billion euros to the 15.7 billion euros of investment announced by 2024. Amazon is going more in Spain. The company has taken advantage of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona for an announcement that significantly reinforces its strategy in our country. The announcement highlights that there are plans to build facilities for manufacturing, storage and something interesting: server recycling in Spain. The promise of employment. Amazon’s forecast is that this Amazon Web Services (AWS) region, which reinforces its location in Aragónwill contribute 31.7 billion euros to Spain’s total GDP until 2035. They estimate that it will contribute “the equivalent of 29,900 full time jobs on average annually in local companies.” Of that figure, there will be 6,700 full-time jobs derived from Amazon’s direct investment in various areas such as data center operationsemployees of AWS providers, or workers who build the facilities. Supply chain. This investment includes an important part of the business consisting of facilities dedicated to the supply chain. These facilities, according to Amazon, will theoretically generate 1,800 jobs in Aragon. Thus, there will be a factory dedicated to the assembly and final testing of the servers, a logistics warehouse and a facility for the manufacturing and repair of AI servers. Let’s talk about energy… Amazon has not given too many details about what the energy and water needs that these data centers will have. However, it does indicate that they have committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040. To do this they are investing in 100 solar and wind projects across Spain, including seven new solar farms. According to their data, AWS data centers in Aragon have offset their electricity consumption with 100% renewable energy since opening in 2022. It remains to be seen if that is enough to prevent the Spanish electrical infrastructure, already saturated, from bursting. …and water. There is also talk about how AWS is going to face the water consumption of these centers: “AWS is also committed to returning more water to communities than it uses in its direct operations by 2030. By 2024, AWS had reached 53% of that goal. In Aragon, AWS supports five water projects with an investment of 17.2 million euros.” A pinch of capex. That investment is certainly part of the planned capex that Amazon has estimated for 2026. The total figure is 200,000 million dollarsa notable increase from the 131.8 billion dollars of capex in 2025. Thus, those 18 billion euros ($21.11 billion) at the current exchange rate represent just over 10% of that capex. AWS is doing (very well). Amazon may not be standing out for having its own AI model, but it certainly has value in its cloud infrastructure. In it fourth quarter of 2025 AWS’s revenue was $35.6 billion, achieving the most notable year-over-year growth (24%) in the last three years. It is evident that investment in infrastructure at a global level is working right now, and Spain has benefited from that momentum. In Xataka | Amazon is negotiating to invest 50 billion in OpenAI. The money would go in through the door and out through the window.

Airlines justify price increases with additional premium services. All except one: Ryanair

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The increase in operating costs It is making it increasingly difficult for airlines to offer low-priced flights. The low-cost They are becoming less and less, and with each passing year the prices of their tickets increase. Airlines have found a simple way to justify that increase: offer more comfort with wide seats and extra services that sound like luxury. Ryanair, however, does the opposite. Although the Irish company is forced to raise the price of its tickets, the company is reluctant to include any “luxury” options to justify the price increase. The boom in “premium” seats. As and how he published The New York Timestraditional airlines are dedicating more and more space on airplanes to seats for “premium” tourist class, with larger seats and improved services. This allows them to charge much more for those seats, while maintaining the number of passengers. The data they point because tickets for these “premium” tourist zones cost up to five times more than a normal one and represent close to 15% of revenue per passenger. According to data of Financial Timesuntil 2028, the number of seats of this type will grow by 11% each year, while the basic economy class stagnates in terms of sales. With this new “premium” tourist model, airlines earn more for each person who travels, without having to squeeze passengers into increasingly tight seats. The low-cost ones join the cart. Such is the success of this model, that even low-cost airlines have begun to offer packages with more services and, of course, with a higher price. Companies like EasyJet or Frontier Airlines They sell “premium” options with priority boarding, seat selection or even complete vacation packages. This adds extra costs to the way you work. The problem is that these added services make the ticket more expensive, so now they depend more on charging for the large baggage check-in or reservation changes. This makes them lose their price advantage and brings them closer to traditional airlines. Their response has been to stop competing for passenger volume at a low price, and now they seek to offer prices equivalent to a single ticket on a conventional airline, but with extra amenities. Ryanair does not take the bait. Ryanair has already announced that the price of your tickets will increase up to 9% in 2026. The company has achieved keep your costs very controlled placing its expenses per passenger and kilometer at only 4.5 euro cents, compared to more than 7 cents for rivals such as EasyJet or Eurowings, or 9 cents for British Airways. Keeping operating expenses low is what allows Ryanair to continue with its low pricing policy without having to offer “premium” features. Something in which its CEO seems not to give in one bit, judging by the clash in X between Elon Musk and Michael O’Leary for connectivity WiFi on airplanes. Musk claimed that more and more airlines were offering WiFi connection packages on their flights as a “premium” option, and criticized Ryanair for not including it. The response from the controversial CEO of Ryanair was immediate, ensuring that he was not going to offer anything that would increase the operating costs of his planes, and the installation of a Starlink antenna increased fuel consumption. That ignited the spark of a small brawl in which Musk threatened to buy the airline but O’Leary knew how to take to his field. Costs are the key. As demonstrated by the latest financial balance of the Irish airline, savings and containment of operating costs are the secret of Ryanair’s success which, with its refusal to pay the increase in Aena rates and at the price of fuel, it recorded profits of 2,540 million euros in the last half of 2025. While the rest of the airlines must resort to “premium” services to justify their price increases. Ryanair seems to be comfortable with its role as stingy in services to its passengers, and prefers to continue betting on a strategy of low prices and moving a highest percentage of passengers. For now, that model works for them. In Xataka | The CEO of Ryanair would govern a country like his airline: a “low cost” state with millionaire politicians and cuts in services Image | Ryanair

The Warner platform either has enough to ban shared accounts and increases prices

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There is no platform that is not hugging the Price climb as a way of falling the crisis of audiovisual content in general and of the platforms in particular. HBO Max is one of those who are having a more changing trajectory with Mutations in the name And the approach, and is one of the last to raise their prices, after Netflix or Disney+ did it almost a year ago in both cases. How is the thing. A few months ago, with the name change, HBO Max has already announced new prices that affected new customers. These new rates affect ancient subscribers. From of the October 23, 2025the prices will increase, leaving like this: Basic plan with ads: 6.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 3.49) Standard plan: 10.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 5.49 euros) Premium plan with 4K content: 15.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 7.99 euros) Annual Plan: 109 euros a year. Why do they do it? This decision, according to the communication that HBO Max has sent to his subscribers, is made because “we are increasing the price in the light of the acquisition costs, creation of content and product development, to allow us to continue investing in the quality content and in the product experience that we strive to offer our customers.” At the same time, they also warn that the conditions of use have been updated, including aspects of content visualization and accessibility functionalities, reasons why they can make changes in the service and other issues. Luxury series. David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros, declared a few days ago, In an interview with The Hollywood Reporterthat the price of HBO Max is below its real cost. And although the platform does not compete with others such as Netflix or Disney+ in terms of the amount of content, it can boast of being one of the most budget invests in its series. For example, ‘The Dragon House‘It costs 200 million dollars per season. And the future series of ‘Harry Potter‘promises a visual luxury at the height of the films. All this was wielded by Zaslav to justify new increases. Direct and indirect increases. Although the bad press that this type of decisions carries causes the platforms to be relatively restrained with the increases of their prices, the truth is that in recent years they have significantly increased the ways of having income. The main two have been the advertising inclusion before and during the programs, with different rates depending on whether or not the ads are eliminated, and the prohibition that accounts are shared Beyond the subscriber’s home, a flying that Netflix has already given and that other platforms have only implemented in a warm way. In Xataka | Video games have fired their number of users, and come from an unsuspected place: television series

Specialty coffee is expensive and there is something that increases it even more: to remove caffeine

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For many, drinking coffee is almost a daily ritual. There are those who take it for pleasure or by necessity, but there is also the case of Who wants all their benefitsexcept Caffeine. There are many ways to decaffeinate coffee, and not all are equally healthy. Among all methods, we know two that are employees for specialty coffee to remain specialty. Now, they are tremendously technical and more expensive than the most general methods. Market. The demand for decaffeinated coffee is experiencing sustained growth in recent years. In more commercial coffees Like capsules Or snapshots, we have decaffeinated varieties for a long time, but increasingly easy to find options among specialty coffees. Depending on the indicator we take (total market or only grains), and depending on the analysis, it is esteem That the decaffeinated coffee bean market was $ 31,580 million in 2024, with a projection to 41,050 million dollars by 2032. Others analysis They estimate it at 6,740 million in 2023, with a growth up to 12,330 million by 2031. The way they are, in what they coincide is that it is a upward market. Controversy without decaffeinar. Something that has also increased is awareness about what we eat. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle depends on a lot of factors, and that saying of “we are what we eat” points in an adequate direction. Why do I say this? Because there are several ways to eliminate coffee from coffee (although there is always a certain residual percentage), but not all are as natural as we would like. The two most used methods are precisely the most controversial. One is the one who uses methylene chloride to dissolve caffeine. In the process, the solvent is eliminated by evaporation and grains, subsequently, it is washed and dry, passing controls so that the solvent residues are maintained below the legal limits. The other uses ethyl acetate, which is a compound that is found naturally in some fruits and the process is the same as in methylene chloride. Although it is considered more natural, it is still a chemical solvent that can also leave an aroma impregnated in coffee. More natural processes. These processes in which solvents are used have been at the point of view of organizations such as the United States Food and Medicines Administration, being the methylene chloride in the conversation. But there are other methods that are used to substantially reduce the coffee level of coffee. One is the swiss water process. In it, the grains immerse themselves in hot water to dissolve caffeine. Then, the water goes through active carbon filters that retain only caffeine and this process is repeated until the grains contain a minimum percentage of caffeine. Image: Swiss Water Process Another is the one who uses Supercritical co₂. In it, the grains undergo high pressures and expose themselves to CO₂ in a supercritical state, acting as a selective solvent for caffeine. Decaffeination through the supercritical co₂ method | Image: James Hoffmann Technology to coffee power. That they are more natural does not imply that there is no sophisticated technological network after the process. James Hoffman, one of the reference baristas for coffee world lovers, has visited facilities in which this decaffeination process is carried out through the Swiss Water technique and we can see that … it is a fairly boring environment: There are simply drums, silos and warehouses in which that “soaking” of the grains, drying and storage is being carried out. But the key is in the control room. Hoffmann cannot show us the graphs that are used to control these processes, but comments that they have computers connected to probes that, in real time, send information of the caffeine present in the grains in several points of the process. Thus, the technicians are adjusting the process until leaving the caffeine necessary to be considered decaffeinated without altering the properties of the grains themselves. The great drums | Image: James Hoffmann And the cabin in which the information of all the sensors is collected to send it to the technicians responsible for supervising the process | Image: James Hoffmann Specialty. These are two more natural methods because they do not use chemicals or solvents, and something for which they are appreciated is because they better retain both the aromas and the original aromas of the grains. And there is a segment that interests that this is: that of specialty coffee. In the search for a coffee with a better flavor, but above all more sustainable for both farmers and the planet, the specialty coffee is earning a hole between palates both understood and profane. In regions such as Europe and North America, the global specialty coffee market is growing at a 10% annual rate. Of $ specialty coffee. Now, decaffeinated specialty coffee is 1 + 1. The specialty coffee is expensive because there is a meticulous process behind. They are selected crops, the harvests are usually done by hand, they have strict control processes for washing and drying, implies fair trade, more sustainable practices and a lower volume. All that makes it a more expensive coffee both to produce and buy. But, in addition, processes such as Swiss Water or the Supercritical Co₂, due to its complexity, the time that is required and, especially in the case of the supercritical co₂, due to the infrastructure to be mounted, make this type of coffee even more. They take away the caffeine, but add some cents to the price. Tags. That is why the methods without solvents are more used in the decaffeination processes of instant coffee, capsule or the most common mixtures that we find in the bar and the supermarket, while the most natural and expensive methods are those associated with decaffeinated specialty coffee. If you are a consumer worried about this, the way of knowing how your favorite coffee has been decaffiled is … Looking for information and look at the labels. When a coffee uses methods such as the supercritical CO2 … Read more

Price increases on all products

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The penultimate week of April seemed to start with some more calm in relation to the Commercial War Between the United States and China. Nothing is further from reality. DHL Express has announced A temporary suspension of all shipments of more than $ 800 to US consumers (whatever the country from which it is sent). It is the Geopolitical context Perfect for a plan that two of the great Chinese giants of electronic commerce, Shein and Temu, materialize a plan they had before even the entry into force of the tariffs: up the price. DHL suspend shipments. DHL will suspend all deliveries worth more than $ 800 in the United States from Monday and “until new notice.” According to the company, the change in its deliveries policy responds to much more strict customs controls. Although the measure arrives in full context of commercial war and tariff changes, the end of the exception of the “minimis” carries Since the beginning of the year, and giants like Shein and Temu prepared to move card. The “minimis”. MINI What? That DHL has suspended shipments according to this concrete figure is not something arbitrary. For years, trade between China and the United States has benefited from an exception coined to the Latin term “minimis”. This expression refers to all those packages with a value below $ 800. This type of low -cost parcels could enter the United States free of taxes, a mechanism that platforms such as Temu or Shein have been taking advantage of for years to offer especially low prices on their platforms. The position of Shein and Temu. The new Trump measurement package ends the minimis, closing the legal back door that both companies used. Both Shein and Temu have sent a statement to their users with a practically identical message: Prices will rise. “Due to recent changes in global trade standards and rates, our operating expenses have risen. To continue offering the products that you love without compromising quality, we will make a price adjustment as of April 25, 2025. Until April 25, prices will remain the same, so you can buy today at today’s rates. We have replaced existers and we are ready to ensure that your orders come without problems during this time. We are doing everything possible to maintain low prices and minimize the impact on you. Our team is working very hard to improve efficiency and stay faithful to our mission: make fashion accessible to all. “ May 2. Both Temu and Shein will raise prices as of April 25, but the key date at the legal level is May 2. This is the day in which the exemption of customs rights (minimis) is eliminated for shipments worth less than $ 800. If this is added to this that every product imported from China is subject to a tariff of more than 100%, the price increase was simply inevitable. What can we expect outside the United States. Although Shein and Temu are going to be especially beaten in the United States, we can expect a direct impact (to a lesser extent, yes) worldwide. Global operating costs will cause a generalized increase in logistics costsand it is not ruled out to compensate for this possible reduction in margins and sales in the United States through increases in the rest of markets. Image | Daniel Torok In Xataka | Before panic for US tariffs there are technological ones doing something uncommon: product collection

Tariffs pose price increases in all types of products. Digital services are not going to escape

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On January 20, 2025 there were five very special guests to Donald Trump’s investiture ceremony. Were nothing less That Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Elon Musk and Tim Cook, the CEO or founders of five of the most important technology companies on the planet. Then things happened. Billionaire losses. Three months later the companies of these five leaders have lost 1.26 billion dollars, An absolutely colossal figure. Donald Trump tariff All products that we buy and consume They rise appreciable. The services are not safe. However, what will happen to digital services? Taking into account that they are intangible, almost ethereal products, one might think that they will be safe from those increases, but we fear that there will also be important increases in these services. Infrastructure after service. The reason is clear: to provide these services services make use of data centersservers and components that will end up more. And if maintaining and providing these services costs companies more, it is logical to think that this cost increase will end up impacting users and customers. Subscriptions more expensive than ever. Thus, it seems that we will end up paying (even) more for being able to use Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft 365 or, of course, our subscription to Chatgpt Plus. Here the dominoes will fall everywhere, and it is expected that the digital services that users and companies use daily rise. We will buy less (and less imported products). As they point out In The New York Timesthere are outstanding examples such as internet payment intermediaries and of course electronic commerce platforms such as Amazon. If, for example, in the US, fewer people buy products imported from abroad – because tariffs will make them much more expensive – both Amazon itself and payment processing entities such as banks or services such as Paypall will suffer the consequences. And the EU prepares tariffs for those services. One of the possible EU responses to the tariffs Trump has announced for member countries (20%, without differentiating by country) is that of impose tariffs to services exports by the Big Tech. China exports goods, but USA exports services. The United States is the largest digital services exporter in the world. According to the analyst Jerry Ar P., in 2022 the United States exported digital services to Europe worth 187,000 million dollars, more than 25% of the total. Tariffs would clearly affect the US revenues due to these exports of digital services, and this consultant estimates that in 2022 these digital services represented 2.5% of the US GDP. Unpredictable collateral effects. The implementation of these tariffs on digital services raises notable consequences for the US economy and, of course, for global finances. North American technological ones who nourish these exports would be the clear victims, and there would also be a direct effect on their templates not only in that country, but globally. The market capitalization of these companies would probably also fall, triggering clearly clear effects in all types of areas, not only at the economic level but also at the diplomatic level. Image | Xataka with chatgpt In Xataka | The great technology built their empires in a connected world. Now that world is falling apart

FDA increases the costco retired salmon consumption

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Food and medication administration (FDAfor its acronym in English) reclassified as class I the withdrawal for listeria risk of the products ACME Smoked Fish Corp, which includes the smoked salmon signature of Kirkland distributed to Costco In October. It is an FDA update that implies that the highest risk level when the product subject to withdrawal is consumed by a “reasonable probability” and the risk of “serious adverse consequences for health or death” The FDA reported that the classification update date is January 22, 2025, says Today. The FDA issued a retlasification of the retired Salmon from Costco on January 22Credit: Fda | Courtesy Recall that the FDA reported in October that by risk of a pollution of Listeria monocytogenes, The company ACME Smoked Fish Corporation withdrew from the Costco stores, 111 Smoked salmon boxes Kirkland Signature, which were distributed in Florida. How to recognize the product? In a statement at the official FDA site, he reported that Salmon products They were distributed to the distribution center of Southeast of Costco, located in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the Costco Warehouse stores in Florida, between October 9 and October 13 of last year. For better product location by consumers, they detailed that the Salmon comes in a 12 -ounce double package presentation, identified with UPC code 0 96619 25697 6 and lot No. 8512801270. While the company indicated that “the smoked salmon Kirkland Signature is vacuum packaged in a plastic pack with black border, with a blue name that says” smoked salmon “and an illustration of a salmon fish in the front.” Know the risks by Listeria Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium responsible for Listeriosis is an infection that can be deadly for people with the weakened immune systemin person older, pregnant children and women. Healthy people can also get sick and Present symptoms in a little time such as headache, abdominal, high fever, nausea, diarrhea and rigidity. The call is to avoid the consumption of the product, discard or discard it in case they have in their possession some packaging of this type of salmon subject to withdrawal. Continue reading: (Tagstotranslate) Administration

Netflix increases its prices: this you must pay now

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Bad news for subscribers Netflix: the platform streaming announced a price increase in each of its subscription plans. Although it is not a dramatic increase, now you will have to pay a little more to continue enjoying the catalog of movies and series. The company argued that the increase is due to a significant increase in the number of subscribers, obtaining 19 million new users in the last quarter of 2024. What you should pay now for your Netflix subscription Through its official website, in the plans and prices sectionNetflix detailed the price of each package and the content it offers. These are the new costs: Standard with ads: $7.99/month With all mobile games and most series and movies available. Unavailable titles are displayed with a lock icon. Likewise, you can watch simultaneously on two compatible devices and download content. Standard without ads: $17.99 per month Offers unlimited movies, shows and games, without advertising. You also have the option to log in on two devices simultaneously and add an extra member who is away from home for $8.99 (no ads) Premium or top quality: $24.99 The difference with the previous plan is that the premium version allows you to log in on up to four devices simultaneously, in addition to 4K resolution available and the possibility of downloading on six devices. Additionally, you can add two members who don’t live at home for $8.99 (no ads). Netflix clarified that the “basic plan” has been discontinuedso any user who paid for this plan must move to the new ones to continue enjoying the content. The platform of streaming He detailed that the massive increase in his subscribers, which entails the increase in prices, was thanks to three events that drew powerful attention: the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, the NFL Christmas games and the premiere of the second season of the “Squid Game”.

Eating processed red meat increases dementia risk, study reveals

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Although the dementia It is a disease more common in older adults or the elderly, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with early dementia each year. Several factors could point to having increased risk of suffering from this disease, among which something so common in diet like red meat. The largest and most robust dementia study to date was conducted in 2023, analyzing data collected on 356,052 people under the age of 65 in the UK. The results, published by the magazine JAMA Neurology and collected by the portal ScienceAlertpointed to a series of factors, among which were elements related to the lifestyle and health. Among these factors, stood out a low socioeconomic level, social isolation, hearing impairmentstrokes, diabetes, as well as vitamin deficiency or excessive alcohol consumption. Now, new research published this January 15 in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, Neurologyemphasizes diet, particularly processed red meat, such as sausages, bologna or bacon, as a factor that multiplies the risk of developing dementia throughout life. An observational study The research, carried out jointly by the hospital network Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in the United States, concludes that Higher consumption of red meat, particularly processed red meat, is associated with a higher risk of developing dementia and poorer cognition. The researchers, led by Yuhan Li, of the Harvard University Department of Epidemiologyindicate that their objective was to examine the association between red meat intake and multiple cognitive outcomes, since previous studies had shown inconsistent associations between these two parameters. However, they detail that the research is solely observational, so a direct cause and effect relationship cannot be established. All in all, a total of 133,771 people were measured in this study over 43 years, with an average age of 49 years at the beginning of the study. Of the initial group, 11,173 people developed dementia. Swap red meat for nuts The results indicate that participants with an intake of processed red meat greater than 25% per day (approximately two slices of bacon, one and a half of bologna or a hot dog), compared to those who consumed only 10% per day, had 13% increased risk of dementia. The researchers point out that replacing red meat processed by a diet rich in nuts and legumes It was associated with a 19% lower risk of dementia in the patients analyzed. Experts, however, point out that we must also consider clinical, demographic and lifestyle factors, such as socioeconomic level and family history of dementia to assess all the results. They also insist that more research would be needed to evaluate, for example, how general these findings are in populations of diverse ethnic origins. Connect diet and brain health For Dong Wang, of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital network in Boston and one of the lead authors of the study, “dietary guidelines tend to focus on reducing the risks of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabeteswhile cognitive health is analyzed less frequently, despite being linked to these diseases,” according to a note. “We hope our results encourage greater consideration of the connection between diet and brain health,” he adds. The study defines processed red meat as bacon, hot dogs, sausages, salami, bologna and other processed meat products. While the unprocessed was set as beef, pork, lamb and hamburger. Keep reading:

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