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Europe has promised to spend 250,000 million dollars in US energy. The problem is that the USA surely does not have it

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On the facade of the Turnberry golf course, between the Scottish Greens and the handshakes of hand, Europe and the United States They avoided a commercial war with an agreement that has been received with relief, but with considerable skepticism. As a headline, diplomatic victory sounds, but energy reality hides much greater complexity. The tariff pact. Donald Trump described the agreement as “the greatest of all”, announcing it from his Scottish resort. For his part, Ursula von der Leyen stressed that they had avoided reaching 30 %tariffs, which Washington had threatened to impose if an agreement was not reached before August 1. The agreement establishes a 15% tariff On European exports to the United States, accompanied by investment and import commitments that seek to “rebalance” a historically asymmetric commercial relationship. However, among the headlines a figure stands out: 250,000 million dollars annually in European Liquefied Natural Gas Purchases (LNG), Petroleum, coal and even US nuclear fuel. And there begins the problem. Does the United States have the capacity? The answer, As the journalist Clyde Russell has analyzed in ReutersIt is a clear “no.” In 2024, the total value of the United States energy exports to the European Union – including raw, gas, coal and refined products – was approximately 65,000 million dollars. To reach 250,000 million promised, they should quadruple. Even if Europe bought 100 % of US exports of crude oil, gas and coal – and no other country received a single drop of American energy – it would continue to be well below the objective. Russell He has described it As “an illusion”, comparable to the failed “phase 1” agreement between Trump and China in 2019, when energy purchases of 200,000 million were promised that were never fulfilled. So what is motivation? The explanation is more in politics than in logistics. The EU has preferred to avoid an escalation that threatened to paralyze its industrial exports, especially in sensitive sectors such as motor, pharmaceutical or semiconductors. As Columnist Pierre Briançon has explained in Reutersit is a “chapter disguised as success.” The new 15 % tariff multiplies by ten the previous average (1.6 %) and is not accompanied by equivalent tariff concessions by the US, beyond some specific sectors such as aviation or certain chemicals. Meanwhile, the European bloc also promises an additional 600,000 million dollars in direct investment in the United States during Trump’s mandate, including armament purchases. All this in a context of increasing tension by war in Ukraine, the dependence of NATO and American pressure on European technological regulations. From Moscow to Texas. One of the key justifications presented by Von der Leyen is that this energy turn reinforces European independence with respect to Russia. As pointed out in The Telegraphimporting US gas and oil will allow the continent “to free itself from Russian energy blackmail.” However, As several diplomats cited by Financial Times have pointed outThis also means a deeper dependence on an unpredictable and volatile trade partner. “Trump knows exactly where our pain threshold is,” an ambassador confessed to the British newspaper. In fact, it is not the first time that Trump threat directly to the EU with punitive tariffs if there are no immediate concessions. In addition, the London medium has detailed That the EU had a retaliation package worth 93,000 million euros, but was never activated due to lack of internal consensus. Germany, Ireland and Italy pressed to soften measures and protect national interests. Brussels’s “commercial bazuca” never shot. A word flies over: renewable. This energy turn also puts the European ecological transition under pressure. The pact does not mention concrete commitments in renewables, and on the contrary, Trump took advantage of the summit to load against wind energy, describing it as “the most expensive energy form” and a “scam”, As the Telegraph has collected. This raises a contradiction: while Brussels promotes projects such as Invest ai To create chips gigafactories and boost green digitalization, at the same time compromises astronomical sums on fossil fuels. A dissonance that, As the expert Mujtaba Rahman recalled in statements to Nyt“It reflects European concern for other geopolitical scenarios rather than for energy coherence.” Are they winning time? To ask ourselves, this is the first thing that comes to mind: it seems that Europe has bought time. Time to avoid immediate reprisals, to keep Trump moderately satisfied, and for the next administration – be it or not – redesign the rules of the game. A strategy that reminds the “Run the Clock” with which China sailed the 2019 trade war. Meanwhile, neither 250,000 million exist, neither gas flows yet, nor are the details closed. As The journalist Tim Wallace has summarized: “What seems like a tactical victory today, tomorrow can reveal its strategic cost.” Image | Unspash Xataka | The US has come to threaten Apple to manufacture the iPhone in the country. Your answer: spend 500 million in magnets

It is one of the ugliest ferraris and cannot be driven either on street or circuit. And yet it is worth more than one million dollars

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From the Ferrari factory in Maranello some of the most beautiful cars in history have come out. Jewelry like him Ferrari 250 Gto, Rome, Laferrari or the Ferrari Daytona SP3 are some examples of the good taste and exquisiteness that cars bend with the shield of “Il Cavallino Rampante“ However, there are others that, let’s say, that you have to get used to looking at them. This is the case of Ferrari F150 Muletto M4, a prototype that, directly, we can consider as the ugliest car of the brand. One so ugly, which does not even allow you to circulate on public roads or roll in circuits. Ferrari engineers went their hand Such and as they tell in Luxury launches The F150 did not come out of the pencils of no official designer of the brand (at least not one that had the design title), but is a mule: a prototype of tests in which engineers prove and develop the Future brands of the brand. The F150 Muletto M4 was born with a purely functional purpose that was based on the chassis of a Ferrari 458 Italia, adapted to test the New hybrid V12 engines that Ferrari developed at the beginning of the 2010 to boost the future Laferrari. Internal level, Laferrari’s project was known as F150, and hence, being the mule of its engine, this Begindro Prototype received the name of F150 Muletto, in its fourth development. Computer simulations help for much of the development, but when it comes to refining mechanics, it is necessary to touch asphalt. That forced Ferrari’s engineers to put that engine on wheels and take it out in these mules to shoot through the private circuit of Fioran, away from the curious looks. This is how this car, although in appearance, was the protagonist of hundreds of kilometers of trials in secret. The Ferrari engineers approach to this prototype was absolutely practical and, as it is obvious, Aesthetics It was in the background. Rivets throughout the body, a nose that fights against the laws of physics (and good taste) exhaust pipes that stand out from the body and removable panels covering the engine so that engineers could more comfortably access the new propeller to apply changes are the explanation of its disastrous design. Ferrari finished the first phase of Laferrari motor tests between May 2011 and December 2012, so, with the main completed developments, the prototype ceased to be useful. Ferrari thought that instead of discarding it Without further ado it would be a good idea to offer it as rarity to the most faithful fans of the brand. He did it with a single condition: they could never be homologated, so this car could never step on the street Not a public circuit. It is, therefore, a whim for engineering and history enthusiasts. A AUCTION FOR INSOLITO PRICE The F150 Muletto M4 still maintains the original version of that V12 hybrid engine capable of delivering 789 hp, compared to the 963 hp of the final version that ended up promoting the Laferrari de Production. This peculiarity is precisely what gives its historical and experimental value to the prototype, being a key piece in the development of the Ferrari hybrid range. Now, the RM Sotheby’s auction portal will present it On a bid on August 15, testing the fervor of Ferrari collectors for the unique pieces, regardless of their real functionality or appearance … controversial. At least on this occasion, we can say that real beauty is inside. In Xataka | Ferrari had been demanding a toy company for 10 years. Everything for Testarossa to be a car and not a bicycle Image | RM Sotherby’s

Google is leaving an absurd million

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Alphabet has returned to Overcome Wall Street expectations In its last quarter, with revenues of 96.4 billion dollars (14% more that the previous year) and a benefit per share of 2.31 dollars. However, like income they have risen, investment in AI as well. The company raised its investment forecast In infrastructure for this year to 85,000 million dollars, 10,000 million more than expected. An infrastructure that will well be worth not to be left behind in the AI career. The impossible dilemma. Google is now before a paradox that can well define what happens in Big Tech: to maintain their future domain in artificial intelligence they must sacrifice much of their current profitability. It is a career in which to fall behind can mean the death of the company. A rhythm that only those that have plenty of financial muscle can participate, since it supposes burn mountains of money without guarantees of an immediate return. The numbers that import. Google Cloud was the great protagonist of the quarter, with a growth of 32% which far exceeds the forecasts of 26.5%. This impulse has led the company to increase its investments dramatically. Together with the rest of great technology, Alphabet is part of a group that will invest More than 320,000 million dollars in AI capabilities this year. To put it in perspective: the 85,000 million that Google will spend equal to the complete GDP of countries such as Croatia or Uruguay. The real threat. The pressure in this race is constant for companies that want to continue up, and Google has a problem that will cost you a lot to get rid of: OpenAi. And is that chatgpt already process between 15% and 20% of the daily consultation volume that Google Search handles. This makes Openai an unquestionably superior threat of what Bing was never. The search engine, which generates more than half of Alphabet’s income and three quarters of its benefits, is losing ground in the face of consultations by generative. A lot of investment in AI, without guarantees. Google’s response has been aggressive, and The last Google I/O It was key to understanding everything for which the company is betting on AI. In just two months, his Ai mode reached 100 million monthly active users, while Gemini It already exceeds 450 million. However, these figures, a priori fantastic for the company, are still a reflection of Google’s great commitment to AI, a bet that nothing guarantees them to the rest of sharks that pursue the same goal. And now what. The company has already advanced that infrastructure spending will continue to grow in 2026. Investors, for the moment, seem willing to tolerate this financial bleeding, but their patience is not eternal either. What is clear is that Google does not want to be left behind, and will do everything in your hand to continue dominating. Cover image | Adarsh Chauhan In Xataka | Google continues to redesign its search engine with AI. Your new function speaks by phone with business in your name

That is why it has a 500,000 million plan

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Taiwan is a worldwide potential in semiconductors. TSMC leadership In this industry, and to a lesser extent the economic performance of other Taiwanese companies also very relevant, such as Foxconn or UMC, has placed its economy Among the twenty -five major on the planet. Usually moves between positions 21 and 22, what is not bad if we are in mind that the island’s population barely exceeds 23 million people. However, if we stick to the thriving artificial intelligence (AI) Taiwan for the moment does not have much to say. TSMC manufactures most of the market chips, but in the field of large language models for ia who are currently singing voice are USA and China. Europe and other powers are trying to make their way not to fall back in A sector of undoubted strategic importancebut until now Taiwan has been essentially irrelevant. This is about to change. Taiwan plans to launch its initiative “Ten great AI infrastructure projects” The US government led by Donald Trump is determined to lead in the field of the cost of what costs. And in principle this initiative, baptized by the new administration as ‘Stargate project’will cost 500,000 million dollars. This money will leave the coffers of the Japanese investment group SoftBank; of those of OpenAI, the creators of Chatgpt; of those of Oracle, and, finally, it will also be provided by the investment firm Emiraratí MGX. Taiwan is going to bet if it fits as strong as the US. And is that, According to ReutersPrime Minister Cho Jung-Tai has confirmed that the government will expand investment in innovation in AI in more than 3,000 million dollars with the purpose of generating more than more than 510,000 million in economic value From here to 2040. This money will come from the administration and from the venture capital companies. Its investment is much more restrained than that of the US, but if we have the difference between the volume of these two economies there is no doubt that Taiwan’s effort is very large. The Taiwanese government will expand investment in innovation in AI in more than 3,000 million dollars And it is because its economy is at stake. In fact, the government expects the development of its infrastructure of the generation of 500,000 new jobs. In addition, he plans to tuning three research laboratories in international reference in a clear attempt to support China’s pulse, which leads with the US in IA. Nevertheless, Cho Jung-Tai has confirmed that there are three other technologies that also have a strategic priority for Taiwan. The first one is the Fotonic silicona discipline that seeks to develop the technology of this chemical element to optimize the transformation of electrical signals into light pulses. The most obvious field of application of this innovation is the implementation of High performance links That, on paper, they can be used both to solve communications between several chips and to optimize the transfer of information between several machines. Another technology that also has enormous strategic importance for Taiwan is the binomial formed by Quantum computing and quantum telecommunications. In this area lead and China lead. And finally, the application of AI to robotics is also essential for the Taiwanese government. In fact, Young Liu, the president of Foxconn, leads a working group called “Great Alliance of the Robotics of Taiwan” who seeks to place the island in the head in a sector that has enormous growth potential. More information | Reuters In Xataka | Huawei attacks Nvidia positions in China: he wants to have dominant hardware in inference processes in AI

Openai and Oracle prepare a brutal data center with 2 million chips for ia

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The plan ‘Stargate’ It is the great bet of the government led by Donald Trump to keep the US at the head of development in artificial intelligence (AI). When this project was made public on January 22, it hit the economic endowment that would make it possible: nothing less than 500,000 million dollars. This money will leave the coffers of the Japanese investment group SoftBank; of those of OpenAI, the creators of Chatgpt; of those of Oracle, and, finally, it will also be provided by the investment firm Emiraratí MGX. These companies will support the construction during the next four years of an advanced network of data centers that will house the high performance computing infrastructure necessary to sustain US leadership in the AI field. The spearhead of these facilities is already being built in Texas (USA), in a town called Abilene. And it is colossal. In fact, this first data center of the ‘Stargate’ project will bring together, According to OpenAimore than two million chips for ia. 4.5 GW Dan for a lot When the US government announced to Bombo y S pay this plan left a great question open: how did he plan to solve the supply of electricity required by the new facilities? Large data centers for AI consume a lot of electricity, which has caused Some technology have opted for investing in nuclear centrals to guarantee the supply of electricity that these facilities require. Oracle began to install the first ‘racks’ with NVIDIA B200 platform servers in June At the moment this question is not completely resolved. And it is not because the ‘Stargate’ infrastructure should be completely ready before President Trump’s current mandate expires, and a new nuclear power plant can hardly come into operation in four years. Even so, Openai and Oracle have formalized A few hours ago they have reached an agreement to build the necessary infrastructure to Deliver additional 4.5 GW to your data centers. Interestingly, SoftBank does not participate in the financing of this expansion, although, as I mentioned a few lines above, it does in the ‘Stargate’ project. According to OpenAia part of the gigantic Abilene data center is already in operation. In fact, Oracle began installing the first racks With platform servers B200 of NVIDIA In June. It is surprising that in just six months a part of this installation is already active, but it is important that we do not overlook that the Abilene data center seeks to demonstrate that the ‘Stargate’ plan is viable within the deadline that those responsible have promised. Anyway, in this equation there is another unknown that also has a lot to say: China. “We hope that China significantly increase its investments in AI and semiconductors in response to the US domain in AI,” CBM consultancy analysts foresee. It makes sense. These two great powers world supremacy are being disputedso it is understandable that each significant step that give one of the two Receive a more or less overwhelming answer from the other. We can be sure that 2025 will be an even more agitated year than 2024 in the geopolitical and technological fields, so we will be attentive to the steps that US and China will surely give. Image | Christina Morillo More information | OpenAI In Xataka | Huawei attacks Nvidia positions in China: he wants to have dominant hardware in inference processes in AI

800 million invested so far from 2025

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Amancio Ortega is the First fortune from Spain and Puja for being from Top 10. Only with Inditex, his Golden Eggs, Receive 98 euros per secondand that money he earns with the company of his eyes, reinvested him in Pontegadea. It is about Amancio investor armand in recent years he has dedicated himself to buying expensive buildings all over the world with a single objective: to become one of the largest homemade on the planet. And in what we have been in 2025, 800 million euros has already been scratched. Hotelito in Paris. Pontegadea is leaving a lot of money in buying buildings. The idea is that Amancio is homemade from his own stores, but there is a lot behind. An example is the 87,000 m² primark distribution centerowned by Pontegadea. Primark is the main rival of Inditex in Europe and its flagship store in Gran Vía in Madrid, with its 12,500 meters, also It belongs To the company of Amancio. One of the latest acquisitions of this real estate arm is a hotel in Paris that belonged to the Spanish chain Derby Hotels. As we read in Europa Pressthe hotel is located in a historic building in the center of the French capital and Derby took him in 2007 for 75 million. Now, Pontegadea has disbursed about 97 million through the building. And Sabadell in Florida. That amount remains in nothing if we compare it with an office tower in Florida that, as we read in ELECONOMISTthe Amancio company would also have acquired these last days. It is about Sabadell Financial Centera 30 -story building in which they are, among other offices, those of Banco Sabadell in Miami, for a whopping 275 million dollars. As the economic environment points out, the agreement must be closed, but if it became, it would become the largest sale of offices so far this year in the southern zone of Florida. Sabadell Financial Center in Miami 2025 of tremendous expense. These two acquisitions (again, in the absence of closing the agreement with KKR by Sabadell Financial Center) are an example that Pontegadea does not raise the foot of the accelerator. It is one of the most active real estate companies in Europe, with total assets valued at 110,000 million euros and the firm intention of not ceasing to grow. You have to add your New “Headquarters” in Luxembourgother skyscrapers of 46 plants and 259 floors in Florida for about 165 million dollars, Offices in Dublin For 70 million dollars and another huge investment in Spain: 250 million euros for the 28,000 square meters of the Planeta Group headquarters in Barcelona. Grupo Planeta headquarters Everything remains at home. As we said some lines, the goal of Pontegadea – and from Amancio – is to become one of the world’s largest. Unless you have plans to take your own offices to those buildings, you acquire them to realize them, as we have seen in the case of Primark. And they are rented to the competition, to Amazon and other technological ones, to tenants in the luxury floors of Florida’s skyscrapers or their own companies. The reason? Much of the Inditext stores around the world are on properties that are from Pontegadea. Everything remains at home and is a way of protecting against market fluctuations. If your clothing store is in your own building, They do not affect you uploads of rentFor example. It is another way of diversifying the business, a key strategy among billionaires and that in Inditex itself we have seen with brands such as Oysho consolidating as a brand of sportswear (in principle they focused on underwear and being at home) or with their Zachaffé coffee shop chain. Images | 1111brickellGtres In Xataka | Millionaires found in the luxury watches a refuge value. Now the bubble has exploded

The largest piece on Mars on Earth has just sold for 5.3 million dollars

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A Roca from Mars which was found in the Sahara desert in November 2023 has sprayed all records in an auction in New York. A 25 -kilogram meteorite. The largest piece of Mars found on Earth already owns, and is an anonymous buyer who won the Sotheby’s auction After a bid of 4.3 million dollars. Will pay 5.3 millionif we add taxes and fees, the highest price ever paid by a meteorite. The rock, baptized as NWA 16788, weighs no less than 24.67 kilograms. With its almost 38 centimeters long, it is 70% larger than the previous largest Martian meteor. From Mars to an anonymous collector. NWA 16788 had traveled 225 million kilometers when a meteorit hunter took him in the remote region of Agadez, in Niger. It did not gently detach from Mars. He was torn from his surface due to the impact of such a violent asteroid that liquefied part of his minerals and catapulted him to space. From there, he undertook a trip of about 225 million kilometers before the earthly gravity attracted him. Its reddish cortex and depressions on its surface are the scars of its entrance through our atmosphere. It is now officially a luxury object that shows that it is possible to speculate with Martian soil. The extraterrestrial market is booming. This sale is not an isolated event, but the confirmation of an upward trend. The meteorit market is an active niche where the rarity, size and history of rocks trigger prices, but none has reached a price as high as NWA 16788. The one that was closest was the Fukang meteoritefamous for its embedded Olivino gems. In 2008, the Bonhams house tried to sell it for 2 million dollars. Pujadores preferred to invest their money in the fossilized manure of a dinosaur that was 130 million years old. In 2021, the Christie’s house sold a Martian meteorite for $ 200,000. Who knows if we will see it in a museum. The sale of such a singular meteor has revived, as expected, an old controversy in the scientific community. Many regret that a piece of incalculable value for science and dissemination can end up in a private battleship chamber. Being anonymous, the buyer’s intentions are unknown Fortunately, not all meteorite is lost to science. A reference sample has been preserved at the Purple Mountain Observatory, in China to analyze it. Image | Sotheby’s In Xataka | The largest piece of Mars on Earth is not in a museum, or a laboratory: it is in a auction house

spend 500 million in magnets

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Apple has been the objective of Threats and criticism of Donald Trump from the beginning of the tariff crisis. The president of the United States has recently demanded to manufacture the iPhone in the country or pay a 25%tariff. Not only asks to leave China, Nor does India workwhat was it The great alternative. In the absence that from Cupertino they inform about structural changes, Apple has announced An investment of 500 million dollars in MP Materials, a snow -based company that, according to the company, is the only integrated producer of Rare earth of the country. Magnets, fuck (Jesse Pinkman said). Manufacturing the iPhone in the United States is unfeasible for Apple if you want to avoid one of 2,300 dollarsbut the company will invest in the local economy as they ask from the government. And the plan, for the moment and in part, passes through magnets. Specifically, neodymium magnets from rare earths manufactured in the country, and developed in Fort Worth, Texas. The magnets They are essential on the iPhone and in a lot of modern electronics: key load component by MagsafeThey are also crucial in microphones and speakers. The supply of the first rare earth magnets will begin in 2027. A larger plan. The 500 million dollars are more than an acquisition of materials. Apple and MP Materials have announced investment in the Texas plant, but also the construction of a new Mountain Pass recycling plant, California. In it they will reprocess recycled materials, as old components of used devices, which they will use in Apple products. However, the announcement not only remains in them: they will distribute magnets all over the world before the growing demand of rare earth magnets, in the electronics sector, but also in motor, aeronautics and military. The 500 million are framed within a much larger investment already announced by Apple in full tariff threat: 500,000 million dollars Over the next few years, with which they seek to build an AI servers in Houston, dated 2026, and an industrial training center in Detroit. Washington wink is clear. The Apple statement justifies the need to make this investment in a local company, but in the background is the fact of demonstrating to the federal government that they are prioritizing the national economy. Tim Cook mentioned that “American innovation promotes everything we do in Apple, and we are proud to deepen our investment in the US economy.” In addition, it also responds to Trump’s objective to create national technological employment: “The increase in production will generate dozens of new jobs in advanced manufacturing and research and development.” Now they do not mention complete figures, but the commitment of the 500,000 million promised to create 20,000 jobs. Own interests. Achieving a local supply, Apple also gains autonomy against China, authentic world dominator of rare earths: controls 70% of production and 90% of its processing. Trump’s threats turned against the country’s technology, because the Asian country Blocked the export of its most valuable rare earths. Fighting the great limitations of the country. Tim cook has said in the past that They cannot manufacture in the United Statesamong other things, due to lack of industrial knowledge. In that sense, the statement affirms that companies “will provide extensive training to develop the workforce, creating a completely new group of talent and experience of USA. In the manufacture of magnets.” By him Liberty PhoneWe know that achieving a 100 % American smartphone is tremendously complicated. His CEO said that “but there are some pieces that simply do not have supply chain,” so they will have to continue working to improve availability. The ironic is that not even the T1 of Trump Mobile will achieve be manufactured in the country. Image | Xataka and Pixabay In Xataka | The loss of the Broadcom chips factory is a malazo for Spain. Now you have to trust everything to your plan B

Some astronomers analyzed the “Big Bang sound.” Now they believe that the Earth is in a vacuum of 2,000 million light years

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Cosmology has a huge problem. It is known as hubble tension and suggests that the nearby universe is expanding faster than the distant and primitive universe He is telling us. Something does not fit. Now, a disturbing study offers a solution. The big problem of cosmology. Hubble tension is One of the biggest headaches of modern physics. On the one hand, we have the measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the oldest light in the universe. When applying the standard cosmological model (LBDACDM), these observations show a 67.4 km/s/mpc hubble constant. On the other hand, when The expansion of the universe is measured Using nearby objects such as standard candles (a type of supernova), a significantly higher value is obtained: about 73 km/s/mpc. This difference, that the most recent data places in a tension of more than 5Sigma (a level that in particle physics is considered a discovery), refuses to disappear. A disturbing explanation. A new study Prepublished in Arxiv proposes a solution as elegant as depressing. That the discrepancy is not in our measurements, but in our location. According to Indranil Cosmologists Banik and Vasileios Kalaitzidis, we could be living in the center of a gigantic cosmic vacuum, a “bubble” of 2,000 million light years in diameter with a density 20% lower than the universal average. The test, they affirm, It is in the “Big Bang sound”. A local vacuum. The idea of the local vacuum is not new: it is known as the empty KBC (Keenan-Barger-Cowie, in honor of the astronomers who proposed the idea based on the galaxies count). If our galaxy, the Milky Way, were in a region with less matter than normal, the severity of the surrounding, densest areas, would “throw away” out. This effect, added to the general expansion of the universe, would cause nearby galaxies to move away from us faster than normal. “This would give the appearance of a faster local expansion rate,” explains Indranil Banik, of the New Research. The Hubble tension problem would thus become a local phenomenon, without the need to revolutionize the entire cosmological model. The sound of the Big Bang as proof. What the new study of Banik and Kalaitzidis contributes is a much more fundamental test based on barionic acoustic oscillations. Although we call them “the sound of the Big Bang”, they are not sound waves that we can hear. They are the traces that left the pressure waves that spread through the superdense plasma of the primitive universe. These waves were “frozen” about 380,000 years after the Big Bang and created A characteristic pattern in the distribution of matter. This pattern works as a cosmic rule of about 500 million light years in length, which astronomers use to measure the expansion of the universe to different eras. The results. The team analyzed 20 years of measurements and compared them with two scenarios: on the one hand, the homogeneous standard model, without emptiness; and on the other, the model that includes the empty KBC. The results, presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2025 of the Astronomical Society Royal, are blunt. According to the statistical analysis of the study, the model with a local vacuum conforms to the data in a spectacularly better way. While the standard model has a 3.3sigma voltage with observations, vacuum models reduce it to only 1.1sigma –1.4sigma. Calmly. The researchers consider “demonstrated” that A vacuum model is about 100 million times more likely than a model without emptiness. However, it is a preliminary study, which has not yet gone through the pairs review. Previous studies set very strict limits to the existence of such an influential vacuum, concluding that it is not enough to explain the entire Hubble tension. They also propose early dark energy as a solution. But Banik’s work offers one of the strongest evidence to date that the Earth could be in a very lonely region of the universe. Image | Greg Rakozy (UNSPLASH) In Xataka | The James Webb and Hubble telescope coincide in the expansion of the universe. And physics fails to explain why

France needs to cut 40,000 million euros. And he has decided to start for something sacred in Europe: the holidays

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In France there are officially 11 holidays nationals per year, all established through Code du travail (Labor Code). In Spain, on the other hand, we cannot complain: “We enjoy” up to 14 of this type of day. It happens that the French have come up with an idea to refloat their maltrecha economy: start removing holidays from the labor calendar. That Europe trembles. Delete the party. French Prime Minister François Bayrou has presented One of the most radical and politically risky budgetary proposals of the last decades in France: freezing public spending, cutting pensions and social benefits, suppressing two national holidays and applying a new “solidarity contribution” to the great fortunes. Its objective: prevent the country from succumbing under the weight of a public debt that this year It will devour 62,000 million of euros only in interest, an amount equivalent to the combined expense in defense and education. In an appearance that defined as “the moment of truth”, Bayrou warned that France runs the risk of falling into a debt crisis similar to that of Greece in 2008 if it does not act in decision, and launched a message to the citizens: “We have become addicted to public spending. We must all make an effort.” The cost of two holidays. Among the most controversial measures, the holiday suppression of the Easter Monday And on May 8 (Victory Day), with which the Executive estimates Save 4,200 million of euros. France has 11 national holidays, compared to the eight of the United Kingdom or the 14 of Spain, which according to Bayrou is An incompatible luxury With the current fiscal situation. The measure aims to increase the number of working days as an indirect tool To stimulate economic growth. But beyond immediate savings, the elimination of days of deep historical and cultural burden represents a high -voltage political challenge, one that has aroused a transverse rejection in Parliament and public opinion. The attack on collective memory symbols, in a country where the history of world wars is a national identity pillar, has turned the proposal into an emotional catalyst. Structural austerity. Bayrou’s budget plan includes 44,000 million euros In tax and cuts increases. Among them, a general freezing of public spending by 2026 (which has been called A Année Blanche) without automatic inflation reviews, and without increases in pensions or social protection programs. This single measure would save 7.1 billion euros, the second largest component of the plan. The Rationalization of health expenditureincluding medications and low disease, as well as the unification of multiple social aid in a single payment with a stop, focused on low income. Bayrou also wants Cut the benefits by unemployment and reduce its duration. The only exempt from adjustment is the debt service and the defense budget, which will increase by 10 % (6.5 billion euros) In direct order by Emmanuel Macron, in response to the deterioration of the international environment and Russian threat. Suicidal political bet. He counted The Financial Times that, aware of the rejection that its plan causes throughout the political spectrum, Bayrou has been willing to Apply article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the budget to be approved without parliamentary vote, although with the risk of facing a motion of censure. This would be the same mechanism that led to the fall of its predecessor, Michel Barnierin 2023, for trying to unlink the pensions of the inflation index, an idea that Bayrou has now resumed. Marine Le Pen, leader of the national regrouping, has not taken long In threatening to censor him If you do not withdraw your proposals, denouncing a plan that “attacks all French, the workers and retirees, instead of ending the waste.” The left considers the project as A “wild austerity” that aggravates inequality and leaves intact the privileges of capital. Mujtaba Rahman, director for Europe of the Eurasia Group analysis group, defined it as “A kamikaze maneuver”: A proposal that has no chance of being approved but puts on the table the magnitude of the fiscal problem. A country on the edge. With a deficit 5.8% of GDP (the third highest in the EU after Romania and Poland) and a debt that is headed towards 115% of GDPFrance is at a critical crossing. If corrective measures are not applied, the cost of the debt could climb to 100,000 million of euros per year in 2029, becoming the largest structural burden of the budget. Bayrou has designed a five -year plan to stabilize that debt/GDP ratio, with the ambition to reduce the 4.6% deficit in 2026 and 3% in 2029. But analysts have warned that such objectives could be “inaccessible” Given the political fragility of the government, parliamentary polarization and the foreseeable social resistance. In Bayrou words: “We know the risks perfectly,” but suggests that giving up the attempt would be even more dangerous. Would it be possible in Spain? In Spain, the possibility of eliminating holidays nationwide is legally possible, but not unilateral or automatic, since it would require a normative reform and institutional negotiation. The reason? It’s not an exclusive competence of the central government and, unlike France, the Spanish system distributes this faculty between the State (fixed 8 days), the autonomous communities (set up to 4 days) and the municipalities (set up to 2 days). Plus: Remember that 14 annual holidays per worker are a right recognized in the Workers Statutebut its concrete distribution is variable. The law allows some holidays to move to Monday, replace them with others or even suppress in specific years, provided that 14 days in total are respected. France and a last act. In the case of France, rather than an economic proposal, Bayrou’s budget plan has acquired the form of a kind of Declaration of principles in front of a fractured country. It is the bet of a veteran politician who seems willing to assume the cost of impopularity to address A structural problem that most of their predecessors have avoided. One thing is clear: parliamentary arithmetic is … Read more

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