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the Stadler plant will be responsible for building 200 hybrid locomotives

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Stadler, a well-known Swiss manufacturer responsible for producing railway equipment, has announced a historic contract with the Luxembourg locomotive rental company Nexrail. The idea is to build up to 200 hybrid locomotives EURO9000. Although the company has not revealed official figures, according to According to Expansión, the order could reach 1.4 billion euros, taking into account that previous similar contracts have been around 7 million per unit. And why is all this important? Precisely because all production will be carried out at Stadler’s plant in Albuixech, Valencia. A boost for the Valencian industry. This mega order represents a fairly important injection of work for Stadler’s Valencian factory and consolidates its position as a strategic production center within the Swiss group. The Albuixech plant will be responsible for manufacturing the most powerful locomotive which is currently produced in Europe, a great recognition of the technical and industrial capacity that the Valencian factory provides. Hybrid technology. The EURO9000 hybrid It combines pantograph and batteries on a six-axis platform already proven on the market. With its multi-system design it allows it to operate without problems between borders of Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. In addition, it can transport goods completely emission-free from terminal to terminal, which leaves aside diesel, a fuel that still predominates in many European corridors. Power. According to Stadler, these locomotives can operate alone even on the most demanding routes, such as transalpine corridors, without the need for an additional thrust locomotive. In direct current networks, the battery system provides extra power that improves performance and allows more load to be transported. It also offers an intelligent battery management system that optimizes regenerative braking, which reduces costs during peak electrical consumption and allows energy to be purchased at times of lowest price. The client and the first operator. The first user of these locomotives will be Hamburger Rail Service (HRS), according to has confirmed Stadler. “The EURO9000 with pantograph and batteries offers HRS a unique combination of flexible traction on lines with or without catenary, high traction capacity for our heavy loads and zero-emission operations,” explained Adem Gülaz, CEO of HRS. Decarbonization. Iñigo Parra, president of Stadler Valencia, has underlined that the order “reveals our joint commitment to sustainable innovation in rail freight transport.” For his part, Luuk von Meijenfeldt, CEO of Nexrail, highlighted that the company is “excited to lead the European locomotive market towards a zero-emissions future” and that this order marks “an important step in that transition.” Europe’s goals. The rail freight sector is immersed in a transformation process to meet European climate objectives, similar to what’s happening right now in the automotive world on the continent. Complete electrification of all lines is still economically unfeasible, so hybrid locomotives with batteries are now emerging as the most realistic solution for decarbonize the sector without giving up the operational flexibility that diesel locomotives still offer on non-electrified sections. Cover image | Stadler and Ivan Arlandis In Xataka | The lack of generational change has opened a job opportunity for thousands of young people in Spain: bus driver

A plant with seven million solar panels

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In one of the most unpopulated and arid regions of China, a landscape for centuries dominated by dust, a huge sand patch is starting to dye green. The cause is not a miraculous climate change or a mass reforestation project, but a solar park as large as the city of Madrid. Seven million solar panels. Located in the province of Qinghai, this megaobra still under construction extends over 610 square kilometers of Tibetan plateau with the aim of housing more than seven million photovoltaic panels. Its generation capacity will be sufficient to supply electricity to five million homes, which makes it the largest solar farm in the world. But beyond energy figures, the most surprising impact is being seen at ground level. Thus it is transforming the landscape. The installation It is having beneficial effects on local ecology. Solar panels, aligned in endless ranks, act as a barrier against the wind that reduces erosion, slows the advance of dust and sand and, more importantly, reduces the evaporation of soil water. Under the protective shadow of panels, vegetation has found an opportunity to prosper. The grass and small bushes are beginning to grow, which has created a greener ecosystem that attracts local fauna. Maintenance is in charge of the sheep. To maintain vegetation under control, the installation has hired sheep in the area. Thousands of sheep come to graze quietly among the panels, an association that a local official described Associated Press as a “win-win”. Although the area of ​​the area It is under public scrutiny For complaints of repression of the Uigur people, local revergeation is a powerful symbol in favor of the energy transition. Not only generates clean energy, but more humid microclimates and vegetation under the rows of panels, turned into meadows for the so -called “photovoltaic sheep.” China’s figures Marean. This project is the spearhead of the monumental China strategy to Lead the energy transition. In 2024, China was responsible for 61% of solar capacity facilities and almost 70% of wind installed on the planet. The figures by 2025 are even more spectacular. Only in the first half of the year, the Asian country added 212 GW of solar energy, more than all the capacity of the United States, as well as 51 GW of wind energy. This acceleration is paying off: China has already reached The objective proposed for 2030 and their carbon emissions have fallen for the first time. Image | Google Maps In Xataka | Minnesota installed solar panels in two huge crops. Five years later, they are a paradise for bees

Airtificial will manufacture parts of the first Spanish rocket at its Jerez plant

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Two of the most popular names of the Spanish high -tech industry have joined their paths. Airtificial, whose factory we visited a few years ago for the presentation of The first hyperloop capsulewill manufacture from now on reusable components for the first Spanish rocket, Miura 5 of PLD Space. Jerez composite. From the dream of magnetic levitation in vacuum tubes to the much more tangible reality of access to space. Aerospace & Defense Airtificial has agreed manufacture at its headquarters A series of composite material panels for PLD Space. They are, specifically, shields for the nozzles of the new Treprel-C engines. Critical elements that serve as a structural support, channeling the thrust of the engines to avoid vibrations that deformed the nozzles, and at the same time of thermal insulation, acting as a barrier that protects the rest of the systems of the lock of the heat of combustion. Why anestificial. The new PLD Space provider has 30 years of composite experience, a more light material than the metal that will reduce the weight of the Miura 5. In the space industry, less weight means greater efficiency and more load to orbit with the same fuel. In 2018, Airtificial acquired international fame after the presentation of Quintero One, a 30 -meter capsule made in carbon fiber compound material. It was a Hyperlooptt design, one of the companies that tried to materialize high -speed transportation promoted by Elon Musk. Today Hyperloop is considered One of the great technological failures of the last decade. Although Hyperlooptt continues to try, Virgin Hyperloop One closed, forcing the Spanish Zelleros to make adjustments. Years later, Airtificial has made the leap to the space industry. Miura 5 is not a promise. PLD Space has A detailed plan to become the European rocket factoryand the pieces begin to fit. After the debut flight of Miura 1, the Miura 5 of 34 meters high and five engines in its first stage is taking shape. Although your body is made of aluminum, it uses composed materials in areas such as cofia or the covers of the engines, which will be key For your future reusable version: PLD Space will try to recover the first stage of Miura 5 after the shock, and on this depends on the resistance of the components. The company is immersed in the qualification of the new Treprel-C engines, which will burn bioqueroseno and liquid oxygen. It is the first time they develop Rocket engines with turbobombs in Spain. The confidence in the project is such that there is already a date marked in red on the calendar to see the first Miura 5. The CEO Raúl Torres It is optimistic: “December 15 of this year. That is day D”. Images | Hyperlooptt, PLD Space In Xataka | This is the Spanish rocket Miura 5: Pld Space has presented it in images and hints that version 1.2 can land

The US pursues the AGI as if it were the Holy Grail. In China they are more pragmatic and are applying AI to plant tomatoes

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The long AI career continues its course, and although it seemed that the United States had taken the lead, China has managed to recover the lost terrain and stand up to the Big Tech. The funny thing is that The approaches of these two countries are totally differentand that makes great losers and winners here. In short and long term. US for the AGI. The North American country has a very different strategy from that of China in regards to artificial intelligence. Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in search of that holy grail called AGI (General artificial intelligence). China, more pragmatic. On the other, China, which has adopted a different and much more pagmatic strategy. Rather pursue great objectives that a priori are far from being achieved, the Chinese government, led by Xi Jinping, is prioritizing The development of AI practical applications that are above all efficient and have limited implementation and, if it can be, low. Promises, promises. The difference between both visions is huge but highlights the mentality with which both countries face their efforts. The US companies that work in the US believe that the AGI is close despite Some experts They are clear that The generative AI is not the way. The Manhattan Project of the IA. That seems to give equal to visionary theorists looking for that AGI, because according to them, this mile military advantage that can suppose. For certain sectors politicians in the US the development of an AGI It is comparable What the Manhattan project was and the construction of the atomic bomb during World War II. But as they explain Some expertsthat project was not the three years of work, but rather supported studies and research that had been running for three decades in an US that at that time looked in the long term. China wants to be useful today. That way of contemplating the career of AI contrasts with that of China. Its leader, Xi Jinping, has not shown special interest in AGI, and its approach is much more pragmatic: he seeks to focus AI on applications for practical purposes. That has led to the Models of the AI ​​developed in China are already taking advantage of everyday tasks. Practical applications. For example, they point out In The Wall Street Journalhttps: //www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-hasthe qualification of access exams to high school, the improvement of weather forecasts, or assistance to agriculture with methods to optimize crop rotation. It should be noted that the US also uses AI in these areas, at least in the form of projects such as Google Weather Lab either Alphafold 3 For the development of medications with AI. Chinese government support. Although there are efforts by both countries for that practical approach, the difference here is that in China there is a very fortune government support. Beijing is investing significantly in that vision with a Investment fund of 8,400 million dollars To support new startups, and both local governments and Chinese state banks have launched their own investment programs. And open models. Another of the key points that differentiate both strategies is that of the closed and owner of the models of the large US companies and Open and open source vision of Chinese models. These open models allow to be downloaded and freely modified, and also reduce the cost of implementing this technology for companies that want to adapt it to their needs. The trade war conditions everything. It is also true that commercial restrictions imposed by the US condition the Chips development and AI software in China. That has caused the Asian giant to have adopted a curious tactic: to let the US assume the enormous costs of exploring new paths to develop AI, and then follow its steps as quickly as possible but without having to face those strong economic investments. Risk aversion. Although Xi Jinping may raise a strategy that the AGI pursues, experts say it will only do it when I see that you have enough guarantees of succeeding. Kendra Schaefer, from the trivium Chinese consultant, explained How the Communist Party does not want to be threatened by an AGI that condition its future. According to her, the Chinese government is “one of the most reluctant governments to the planet’s risk.” Outstanding image | Xataka with Midjourney In Xataka | China has declared the war on private school: why he predicted the prolific “tutorials”

France promised them happy with the Grand Nuclear Power Plant. Until the jellyfish swarms arrived

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In France, jellyfish have knocked out one of the country’s largest nuclear centrals. Yes, the same jellyfish you are on the beach. Although it sounds delusional, the company Électricité e France (EDF) has acknowledged that an incident with these jelly and transparent celentéreos has forced to pause four of the production units of The Gravian Plantlocated north of the country. The most surprising thing is that it is not something exceptional. What happened? The news has been given by EDF itself, which in A statement Posted yesterday explains that the Gravelines Nuclear Power He has seen how four of his six production units went out for a peculiar motive: jellyfish. The first three units (2, 3 and 4) were automatically disconnected on Sunday night following security protocols to protect the reactor. The fourth (unit 6) also automatically went out on Monday. What happened exactly? EDF is quite clear In this regard. The stops are explained by “the massive and unpredictable presence” of jellyfish in the drums of the pumping stations, located in the non -nuclear part of the plant. What happened is best understood by remembering that gravoras, a of the largest centrals From France, it is refrigerated with the help of a channel connected to the North Sea. The plant has water pumping stations that allow it to refrigerate the reactors. The jellyfish were located precisely in filters that are responsible for aspiring sea water to control its temperature. The four units that went out automatically (2, 3, 4 and 6) are also added to production units 1 and 5, which already They were disabled For maintenance work. Was there any danger? EDF too It is clear At that point. He assures that at no time there was danger and that what happened did not affect the safety of the facilities or meant any risk for the template or the environment. “The plant equipment has mobilized and perform the necessary diagnoses and interventions to restart the production units safely,” guarantees. At first He pointed out that the affected units could be operational again on Thursday, but Reuters slides That the schedule may not be fulfilled: the idea was to restart the four units today, but in principle it will only one. The rest will resume the activity little by little, progressively, until Friday. What jellyfish were they? The operator has not clarified it, but the Reuters agency holds that is about Pulmo rhizostomaalso known as Aguamala. Its presence in Gravelines could be explained by two factors: first the temperature of the sea, higher this summer, which favors jellyfish flowers and that these remain longer in the North Sea; Second, the force of the currents, which would have pushed the banks towards the channel and the central. Is it the first time that happens? No. It is not usual, but neither was it out of the ordinary. Gravelines already lived something similar In the early 90s and there are other plants distributed throughout the world that have encountered similar problems. Swiss Info appointment Specifically, US facilities, Scotland, Sweden and Japan, which would also have suffered them last decade. Its proliferation is explained by water warming and The overfishingwhich has punished tuna banks. In this case, jellyfish have affected a relevant plant for France, equipped with six units that produce 900 megawatts of energy each, near 5.4 Gigawatts in total. The idea is that from 2040 shelter two EPR2 reactors. Images | Joel Filipe (UNSPLASH), EDF and Wikipedia In Xataka | SMR reactors were supposed to save nuclear energy. The first of the West for now is far from it

There are gentlemen getting up at 5:36 in the morning to plant its umbrella on the beach of Torrevieja. The law has things to say

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Saturday, 05.36 am Cura BeachTorrevieja. There is still a good time for dawn and groups of young people who take advantage of the last hours of a Farra night, but the cameras of Mastral projectan weather information platform, capture a curious phenomenon in this corner of the Alicante coast: a white t -shirt man advances through the sand loaded with his pertrechos beach, mounts a couple of sun loans and nailed an umbrella in the first line of beach, almost almost where the waves die. The recording shows nothing more, but since at that time there is not a miserable sun ray is not unreasonable to think that man returns home to continue sleeping until, tomorrow, he can claim his beach plot. Yes, 5.36 in the morning. The video Extended by mastral project has not taken long to go viral, with thousands of reproductions, for a very simple reason: although already We are accustomed To the bathers who go to the beaches at the top hour to reserve a hole and then leave, it is still surprising that there are people willing to do so at dawn. In the specific case of Torrevieja, the recording shows that the first ‘colone’ arrives at 05.36 and its umbrella is planted at 05.41, when it only served (at most) to protect itself from the moonlight. Click on the image to go to Tweet. The ‘War of the umbrellas’. The video reflects the escalation of the ‘War of the umbrellas’a phenomenon that has been cooking in the middle country, especially in the busiest years. Its logic is quite simple: the struggle to get the best holes in the sand, in the front line, leads some bathers to get up early to nail their umbrellas and other belongings. They often keep their place and then leave. The summer version of the Pica in Flanders. The practice is usual especially in Levante and has even encouraged his particular submerged economy. Just a year ago Malaga’s opinion He informed That, for the street sale of soft drinks, towels, glasses and massages, a new business on the beaches of the region had joined: the rental of umbrellas to tourists for 10 euros. In fact in just a week the Local Police came to withdraw about 30. Playeros landowners. Although tails/struggles/discussions to plant ultimate upset or scenes such as the one captured by mastral is curious, in the background there is a major problem: the use of public spaces as if it were farms. And that is not something exclusive to Levante. Nor is it done alone with umbrellas. In 2024 Vigo lived His particular controversy After several photos of bathers that bounded plots (in some cases of several meters) with rows of window. The objective: entrenched inside with towels, portable refrigerators, umbrellas, chairs and tables, as in a bungaló. Of beaches … and swimming pools. The phenomenon is not exclusive to the beaches. Community pools They have their own. In 2022 it circulated A video which showed the fierce competition of the guests of a hotel for giving the best sun loungers in the pool as the doors of the installation opened, at 7.59 h. Some even ran and threw their towels to occupy the free squares. A quick search arrives on Tiktok to find similar recordings. Or even stamps still more surreallike a towel tail in a hotel in Mallorca, a particular system for saving tail at the entrance of the pool. A problem: the law. The problem is that in his zeal for enjoying the sun, the swimmer Hypermadugador of Torrevieja or the landowners of Vigo They forget something: the law. The beaches are regulated by the Coast Law 2/1988that progresses that the sand “will not be of private use”, but some municipalities have gone further specifying that spaces cannot be reserved. It is in those cases in which vacationers must be more careful when planting their towels. In September 2015 without going any further, the Torrevieja Local Police put a 150 euros fine to a swimmer for installing his umbrella early in the day in a privileged place of the beach of the priest to reserve room. It was useless to resort to him and claim that he was taking a dip, the penalty It was ratified in 2016. “Dangerous practice”. “Those of us who live in Torrevieja know that there are people who at 5.30 places their umbrella on the beach and leaves,” explained to the newspaper The provinces Javier Manzanares, councilor, before pointing out that practices thus complicate the work of the operators that clean the sand. “It is a dangerous practice. It hinders a job that they carry out until six in the morning.” What does the law say? The most convenient thing is to consult the ordinances of each municipality. In the case of Torrevieja Your regulations It is very clear: the authorities will consider a mild infraction “to leave parasols installed (…), umbrellas, chairs, tables or any other complement, provided that its owners are not present, for the mere fact of having reserved a place on the beach.” It is not a unique case. In 2022 Cullera published A side in which he underlined the prohibition of installing “particular elements” before eight in the morning and warned that the City Council itself would be in charge of withdrawing them. The document includes Other indications On the use of sand and ends by warning that skipping their indications entails sanctions that can go from 750 to 3,000 euros. Are there more examples? Yes. A few. Leaving umbrellas and chairs to reserve a hole on the beaches is prohibited in Torrox, Vélez-Málaga, Gandía, Carob tree either Nerjawhich was responsible for warning of the veto at the beginning of the pandemic. And that to quote only a handful of examples. Those who skip the law risk more than a reprimand, as happened to the torrevieja’s swimmer of 2015. Of course, the sanctions They can range From one case to another. Algarrobo or … Read more

A secret annex in its missile plant that baffles analysts

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Among the mountains southwest of Pyongyang, a new building has become the last great mystery of North Korea. It appears in a satellite image captured on June 9 by Planet Labs that indicates an annex as striking as disconcerting. There are no windows, only a long and high structure that seems designed for something that is preferred to keep hidden. Missiles? Anti -aircraft systems? The first hypotheses are already on the table, but the answers, as always, are much more difficult to obtain. A complex with decades of history. The Missile Factory Chamjin is not any installation. American spy satellite files already mentioned it in the 60s as a nerve point of the North Korean missile program. It is officially known as Thaesong Plantand hides in a narrow valley, surrounded by peaks and protected by control stalls and anti -aircraft nests. There, between tunnels excavated in the mountain and industrial pavilions, some of the rockets that give muscle to the military force of the country are assembled. The great remodeling of 2023 and 2024. For decades, the western part of the Missile Factory Chamjin remained almost intact, with aged industrial pavilions and deteriorated ceilings. Everything changed in recent years, when the largest of these buildings received a complete renewal, including a new roof that caught the attention of analysts. That movement was just the beginning. In July 2024, the works intensified: Three industrial ships and several minor buildings were demolished to give way to larger structures. It was at that time that the renewed pavilion incorporated the annex that today concentrates all eyes, a piece that breaks the known silhouette of the factory and suggests a new stage in the complex. What hides behind the annex? The new annex does not go unnoticed. With its 65 meters long, 18 wide and about 15 high – measures calculated by researcher John Ford, James Martin Center for Nonproliferion Studies and cited by Defense News-, the structure seems designed for tests with long and heavy objects. The specialist warns that the design does not fit at all with the needs of the largest rockets of North Korean arsenal. One of the most solid theories points to the anti -aircraft systems Pongae 5 or Pongae 6, which Pyongyang has promoted in recent months without still showing in public. The annex, according to this reading, could be destined to test the vertical deployment of the launch pipes of these systems, or even assemble the vehicles that transport them. For now, everything is interpretations. North Korea rarely shows what happens in its military factories and satellite images only offer fragmented clues. But, judging by the architecture and location of the new building, analysts agree that their function is linked, in one way or another, to the heart of the missile program. The shadows of military cooperation. The expansion of the Missile Factory Chamjin does not happen in a vacuum. Since Moscow and Pyongyang reinforced their military tiesNorth Korean factories have experienced accelerated modernization. Analysts like Colin Zwirko, from NK NewsThey point out that the rhythm of construction in key facilities is related to the supply of weapons to Russia for war in Ukraine. Missiles, artillery projectiles and industrial components have left these plants to Moscow, and the money received could be financing improvements such as the new annex. The propaganda narrative and the role of Kim Ju-Ae. In North Korea, visitors to missile factories are not just technical inspections: they are carefully designed messages. In early 2023, Kim Jong-un appeared at the Thaesong plant Accompanied by his daughter Kim Ju-Ae, an image that toured state news. Since then, Kim Ju-Ae has become a recurring face of military propaganda. According to Newsis analystsseeks to project the arms program as a shield for the safety of new generations. Images | Kremlin | Planet Labs (Via Defense News) In Xataka | Ukraine has opened Russia’s last drone and does not leave his astonishment: it is the first time that China does something like that

Byd promised them very happy with his new plant in Mexico. He has just canceled all his plans

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In February 2024, the rumor that Byd was interested in building a factory in Mexico began to gain strength. And, contrary to what usually happens in other cases, for last year there was already talk of possible locations and even the jobs that were going to be created in a specific installation. None of that will happen. Canceled. At least in the short term. Because according to Stella Li, BYD vice president, they are “waiting for greater security before making a decision”, in words collected by Bloomberg. And, according to LI, all brands “are rethinking their strategy” because geopolitical motifs that have “a great impact on the automobile industry.” The answer comes just when the company seeks its expansion in America. To do this, a factory is raising in Brazil (in which they were accused of hard treatment to their workers) but wanted to take Mexico as a basis for an expansion in North America. USA. The biggest problem for this expansion seems to be the Government of Donald Trump. The US government is using tariffs as a pressure measure against other countries, which directly impacts the automobile industry. In order for these tariffs not to impact vehicles, Byd would have to ensure that the components used do not pass through the neighboring country since would make the final product. Without the possibility of selling cars in the United States, playing with the price is key to competing with maximum guarantees in Mexico. And not just the United States. Although the cancellation, at least temporary, of the Mexican factory of byd seems to focus on the US administration, Financial Times He assured a few months ago that China also did not see with good eyes The implementation of the company to the south of the country since they believed that it could be a risk of industrial espionage. Everything indicates that, once confirmed that Byd could not sell their Chinese cars in the United States as a result of the New standard approved by the then executive of Joe Bidenfrom the Asian country they wanted to throw the brake. In June 2024 There was already talk that the country that Donald Trump now runs was Byd’s true goal on his arrival in Mexico. Advanced? What is not entirely clear is to what extent the company’s plans were advanced. A little later, Already in August last yearIt seemed that we had three candidates to host the arrival of the Byd factory. Then it was said that all locations were in the center of the country but Reuters It didn’t give more data. In January, the plant size began to speculate. It was said that the factory would use 10,000 people And that would bend the one that Tesla had planned to build in Nuevo León and that, finally, Nor has it finished getting ahead. Months later, Trump would hit the manufacturers hard that produce totally or partially in Mexico The cars sold in the United States. However, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexican president, already pointed in March that “they have a proposed investment, but it was never something formal”, in relation to the possible locations that could be of the plant. Now, it does not seem to continue advancing in the short term. Photo | Byd and Roger CE In Xataka | We tried the eye of God with which byd wants to break the market: autonomous driving for a 9,000 euros car

Its AI is connected to a clandestine gas plant

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Elon Musk’s last controversy has nothing to do with rockets, nor with his political comments on social networks, but with a potentially illegal installation who is playing with the public health of his neighbors in Memphis. Short. The XAI artificial intelligence startup, founded by Elon Musk, faces a possible federal demand for feeding Your gigantic Memphis Data Center With a gas power plant that, according to the complainants, has been operating without the necessary permits and contaminating the air of the region. The epicenter of the conflict is the Colossus Data Center, where Xai trains his AI models with hundreds of thousands of specialized nvidia chips. To quench the enormous energy demand from its graphics cards, the company installed dozens of natural gas turbines. Now the Southern Environmental Law Center (Selc) threatens to sue the company for “flagrant violations” of the United States Clean Air Law. Aerial photos and thermal cameras. According to the NECC notification, “during the last year, XAI has installed and operated at least 35 combustion turbines and other sources of air pollution in the Colossus facilities without ever having obtained the necessary permissions of preconstruction or operation.” Before “the lack of transparency of XAI and the ambiguous response of the local authorities”, which came to suggest that the turbines were “exempt from permits”, the SELC hired an air photographer to document the facilities. In March there were 35 turbines in operation. In April, at least 33 were full functioning, emitting large amounts of heat. A third recognition flight made on June 15 revealed that, far from being withdrawn, There were still 26 turbines next to Colossus. But there is something else: XAI has installed three larger new turbines. The total generation capacity is now approximately 407 megawatts, just 14 MW less than at its peak of March. The authorities are with XAI. In early May, the Great Memphis Chamber of Commerce He issued a statement trying to calm the waters. They claimed that the turbines were “temporary” and that they would be “paralyzed and removed” in the following two months, once the data center connected to the electricity grid. They also assured that approximately half would remain standing to feed phase II of the Colossus project, until a second substation was ready, at which time they would become just a system of support of the electricity grid. The capital of asthma. The matter acquires a more worrying channel if we take into account that Memphis already suffers one of the worst air qualities in the United States. In 2024 she was designated as the “capital of asthma” of the country for its high rates of visits to emergency and deaths linked to this disease. A 400 MW gas plant has the potential to emit more than 2,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOX) per year, chemical compounds precursors of the tuxedo. While companies like Xai, OpenAi and Google compete to develop the most powerful AI models, the infrastructure necessary to feed them this bringing to the limit to the electrical networks And, as this case demonstrates, it can push companies to take regulatory shortcuts with an environmental cost. Image | Steve Jones on a Southwings flight for SELC In Xataka | Elon Musk turned an abandoned US factory into the most powerful supercomputer in the world. Nobody thought of the neighbors

A US nuclear power plant was going to close after running out of subsidies. Mark Zuckerberg has taken the opportunity to keep it

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Training large models of artificial intelligence consumes so much energy that technology companies are “appropriate” of nuclear power plants. Goal saves a nuclear power plant. Goal, the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp matrix, He has just signed an agreement which symbolizes paradigm shift. The company led by Mark Zuckerberg has saved a nuclear power plant that had the days of a 20 -year contract. Constellation Energy Corp., the largest nuclear operator in the United States, will supply 1,121 megawatts of energy from its Central de Clinton, in Illinois, directly to the target data centers. The contract will begin in mid -2027 and will be in force until 2047. It is not a casual date. 2027 is when the state subsidy that kept the Clinton nuclear power plant. To understand it you have to rewind 10 years until 2017. At that time, the Clinton Power Station, like so many other nuclear centrals in the US, was on the tightrope. Unable to compete with the low prices of natural gas and the rise of renewables, its then owner, Exelon, threatened to close it. Only an intervention in extremis From the Illinois government, which approved a 10 -year subsidies package, the oxygen ball it needed. A Big Tech knocked on the door. Finally, it will be a technological giant, in full boom of generative artificial intelligence, which stays with the Illinois Central. Total goal consumption It has been quasite Between 2019 and 2023. Training and operating generative AI models requires giant data centers running at full performance 24 hours a day. This is where the main weakness of renewable energy sources is shown, such as photovoltaic or wind solar: despite being a key piece of the stark strategy of technology companies, their intermittency makes them an insufficient option. Nuclear energy, with a massive and stable supply, complete the puzzle allowing companies to maintain their commitments to be neutral in carbon emissions. Goal is not alone. The goal is the last one, but it is not an isolated case. Rather, it is the confirmation of a strategic trend that has been consolidated in the last two years. Technological giants have gone from signing energy purchase agreements with renewables to actively seek the stability of atomic energy. In a movement similar to Microsoft, Microsoft signed an agreement with Constellation for Reactivate Reactor 1 of the Three Mile Island Central (famous for the accident of your reactor 2). The Central, which had been closed in 2019, now feeds the Azure data centers for AI. Amazon Web Services has moved directly to a nuclear power plant. In March 2024 bought for 650 million dollars A gigantic data center adjacent to the Susquehanna plant, in Pennsylvania. The agreement guarantees 960 MW of direct energy for its AI operations. Image | Constellation Energy, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) In Xataka | Japan’s energy gauge: after trying to become independent from its nuclear, it has had to back down

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