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Madrid needs to build a lot to relieve its serious housing crisis. You already have a (mini) plan to achieve it

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Madrid You need housing. A lot of housing. If the city wants to solve its mismatch between supply and demand and thus stop The climbing Price that he has long suffered needs to strengthen his market. It is not a simple task. Over the last years the capital has Moved file for example to avoid the escape of floors towards the holiday rental or clear land in which Raise new houses. With that backdrop, his City Council has just taken an important step with which he hopes to create hundreds of households in a new urban widening. Objective: to stop one of the Great challenges of the capital. What happened? That Madrid has taken an important step that will allow (partly) to relieve one of its most pressing problems: The lack of housing. A few days ago the City Council advanced in the procedures to clear the situation of an area of 218,000 m2 located east of the capital, together with San Fernando de Henares and Coslada, and in which 700 houses will be built, 50% official protection. What exactly? Advance in the long bureaucratic journey that the project has to complete before the first stone is placed. Last week the Government Board of Madrid approved Submit to the public information process the Sector Plan for the ‘Development of the East-Esanche of San Fernando’. The objective: ultimately, order the land located next to San Fernando de Henares and Coslada to “transform” with green areas, services … and houses. The Governing Board also approved to send the document to the Community of Madrid to activate two other essential bureaucratic gears: the strategic environmental assessment and the territorial impact report. For now, the project already has a favorable report from the General Planning Directorate. Click on the image to go to Tweet. Where will it be built? East of Madrid. To be more precise, near the roads M-45 and M-50 and the Regional M-206, between the towns of San Fernando de Henares and Coslada. Towards the East limits with the Parque Roma-Coronas neighborhood (S. Fernando de Henares), to the Oste with Jarama (Coslada) and to the south beautiful with the hills (Madrid). The Consistory recalls that under the ground the Metro line 7 runs, not far away are the Central Coslada and S. Fernando. The idea is not to build only 700 homes, green areas and other equipment, but “integrate” the new neighborhood into the surroundings, especially with Romoronas Park and Jarama, “giving continuity and harmony to the whole set, also with the metropolitan forest,” Clarify José Luis Martínez-Almeida’s team. The Consistory wants to integrate the improved road into the urban framework, preventing it from acting as a kind of “barrier”. Why is it important? Because among other things the Ensanche of San Fernando plans to create about 700 new homes, half with some degree of public protection and the rest available for the free market. And that is an important news in a city that suffers a deep mismatch between demand and the supply of residences, which translates into a deficit that some voices of the sector They relate precisely with the lack of soil available for construction. The Association of Real Estate Promoters of Madrid (Asprima) Calculate that every year they are necessary 40,000 New households in the community, well above the production of new construction. According to their estimates, over the last years housing deliveries have remained between 7,200 of 2014 and the “peak” of 23,500 last year. In 2023 and 2024 he estimates that 16,000 and 18,600 began respectively, which gives an idea of the stage for the next few years. And what does that suppose? “There is much more demand than supply and that translates into a price increase. In addition, there is an embolized demand for more than 175,000 homes,” warned Real Estate Consultores Forum in a 2024 analysis. In its last year’s report, Asprime already remembered that the INE forecasts pass through that in the coming years (between 2022 and 2037) the population of the Community of Madrid grows almost 13% to exceed the 7.8 million inhabitantswhich will fully affect its real estate market, tensioning it even more. “This growth will cause the community to build housing in the next 14 years for 573,738 new homes, passing the housing park of the 2,636,988 existing in December 2022 until 3,210,726 of December 2037. It means building more than 40,000 homes a year, compared to the 17,000 that are currently built,” collect The promoters report. The collective is part involved, but it is not the only one who has warned of the hole, a problem that extends to other regions of the country and also has pointed out The Bank of Spain. Does it affect something else? Yes. The mismatch between supply and demand, added to other factors such as The pressure that holiday rentals exercise, it is felt on several fronts. For example, in The speed with which the floors find tenant or buyer or The hard conditions who are forced to assume those interested so as not to be expelled from the market. If there is a clear indicator of the imbalance it is nevertheless the price. Idealista calculates that M2 costs € 5,718 In the capital, 23.7% more than a year ago. In the case of rentals the rise was from 11.3%. Images | Quique Olivar (UNSPLASH) and Borja Carabante (X) In Xataka | In Madrid the number of Latinos has shot. And with them a new phenomenon: 15 -year -old parties for Madrid

will pause its AI during heat waves to relieve the electricity grid

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Google has announced A pioneering agreement with two of the main electrical companies in the United States to reduce the consumption of their data centers during energy demand peaks. In other words, Google will pause its artificial intelligence during heat waves. AI is hungry. It is no secret that generative artificial intelligence has a voracious energy appetite. Train and execute the huge models that drive from the summaries in the Google search engine to the youtube folded videos requires dozens or hundreds of megawatts of power continuously. This massive consumption, concentrated in huge data centers, has become a growing concern for electricity companies, which see how energy demand triggers at a rate that the current infrastructure is not prepared to support. An unthinkable movement. Until now, the main concern was to add enough power to the network, with solutions that go From reopening abandoned nuclear centers until Sign the largest hydroelectric agreement in history. But Google’s last movement proposes an unthinkable solution in the competitive AI industry: instead of just increasing energy supply, managing demand flexibly. The measure, agreed with two of the main electrical companies in the United States (TVA and I & M.), arrives just when both states prepare for an intense heat wave. While millions of homes and companies light their air conditioners, putting the electricity to the limitGoogle has agreed to reduce the consumption of its less urgent tasks to avoid overloads and possible blackouts. Demand flexibility. Google has not invented anything new. This type of Flexible response to network demand It already applies in many industries, usually to pay a lower price for the light. Google itself has used it for a long time to postpone non -essential tasks, such as the processing of YouTube videos, moving them to data centers in other time regions or executing them at night, when the demand for the network is lower. The novelty is that, for the first time, it will apply contractual to automatic learning workloads, the heart of the AI. According to the agreement, if the demand for energy increases dangerously or there is an interruption in the network due to extreme weather conditions, operators can ask Google to reduce their consumption. Google will respond by reprogramming or limiting non -urgent tasks until the network stabilizes. You won’t run out of Google Maps. The company has made it clear that this demand response system has its limits. Critical services that require 100% reliability and constant availability, such as the search engine, Google Maps or cloud services for clients of essential sectors such as health, will not be affected. Flexibility will apply to tasks such as the training of new AI models thanks to advances in techniques such as Checkpointing (which allows you to save the progress of training and resume it later). A model could be trained exclusively at night, when the network capacity is greater, without losing the work already done. What does Google win with this? In addition to relieving the overload of the network and preventing off, the clients of the network will end up reducing the light of the light thanks to this system. Including Google data centers. Image | Pawel Czerwinski in Unspash In Xataka | The AI has disrupted Google’s plans to be sustainable. His plan to remedy it: the “four m”

The wine will not relieve your sorrows. Science believes that vinegar does

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Depression is a problem that affects millions of people around the world and treating it is not easy. Often specialists must resort to pharmacological treatments with severe adverse side effects. On the other hand we also know that habits such as exercise or contact with nature can serve to appease some of their symptoms. Vinegar and depression. A new study has observed antidepressant qualities A season of the most everyday, vinegar. The team responsible for the work has not only found in this usual ingredient in salads some capacity to relieve depressive symptoms, has also investigated the possible mechanism behind this relationship. B3. This mechanism would be nothing other than nicotinamideone of the ways in which we find vitamin B3. The experiment carried out by this team found an increase in the levels of this compound by 86% after four weeks with a high consumption of this acid seasoning. We know that nicotinamide is a Composed by our body in tasks such as the development, survival and operation of the neurons of the central nervous system. As we found out, this vitamin fulfills a neuroprotective function, avoiding injuries in these cells in cases such as traumatic lesions and infarcts. We also know that it is linked to some neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson. Before putting our taste papillae with the dressing of our next salad, it is convenient to know that nicotilamide is present in various foods such as meats, milk, eggs, vegetables and cereals. Two tablespoons. In the study 45 people participated (Although only 28 completed the experiment), overweight healthy adults. The participants were randomly divided into two groups, experimental and control. Those assigned to the first group took two tablespoons of diluted vinegar twice a day for two weeks; Those assigned to the second took a pill with a low dose of vinegar, once a day during the same period. The dose of acetic acid in the groups was 2.95 and 0.025 grams respectively. The team collected blood samples before and after the experiment. He also compiled information on the diet of the participants, weight, height and other variables. Participants filled questionnaires about their state of health and evaluations about their depressive symptoms. They also declared their daily vinegar consumption for more detail. 42%. The control and experimental groups showed no significant differences at the beginning of the experiment but after four weeks. Specifically, participants in the experimental group saw a 42% reduction in the scores of their tests evaluating depressive symptoms. There was also an improvement in mood. The blood tests showed an increase in nicotinamide in the experimental group, but also a reduction in isoleucine levels, an essential amino acid whose presence in the body has also been linked to certain health problems. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nutrients. A limited sample. The study offers an interesting vision of the impact that certain foods and nutrients can have on our psychological well -being and mental health, but It also presents important limitations that must be mentioned. The first is the sample of only 28 participants, a scarce number to give statistical validity to the results. Another important detail is the duration of the study. Although the team observed differences at four weeks, a longer study would be needed to know if the effects are sustained over time and if there are additional impacts. Finally, the study was conducted with healthy and overweight people. This is not necessarily extrapolable to the general population and, above all, it does not have to be extrapolated to people with severe symptoms or with clinical depression. More studies will be needed to know the possible effects in these populations. In Xataka | There are people eating carrots like rabbits because they think that they will get morenos. There is only a small problem Image | Artheos

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