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Gasoline has risen so much that even Mark Zuckerberg has looked for a low-cost gas station to refuel his yacht: Gibraltar

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From the start of the war of Iran, filling the car tank has become one of those little dramas everyday things that we all know well. A few euros more, a sigh of resignation, and continue. But there is another refueling scale that makes your complaints at the gas station For those 10 extra euros that it cost you to fill the tank, it almost sounds like a joke. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and fifth greatest fortune of the world, owns the launchpada 118 meter superyacht valued at about 300 million dollars. Since the US and Israeli bombs began to fall on Iranian soilfilling your fuel tanks involves an extra cost of $278,880 with each refueling. The most curious thing is that the solution that the tycoon has found is very similar to the one that any citizen with a foot in this price escalation has probably adopted: look for a low-cost gas station. The painful tank to fill Maintaining a luxury superyacht is not cheap, which is why only millionaires can afford it. He launchpad by Mark Zuckerberg has a fuel tank of approximately 420,000 liters. To put it in context, it is the equivalent of the capacity of about 7,000 medium-sized cars at one time. The yacht is equipped with four MTU 20V 4000 M93L engines which, sailing at a cruising speed of 16 knots, consume about 982 liters per hour each. That leaves us with approximate consumption of 4,000 liters of fuel per hour. That is to say, an equivalent consumption 560 cars traveling at 120 km/h or 73 buses. To this we must add that the launchpad He does not travel alone, he does so accompanied by his support yacht, the wingman. Expenses double. The Launchpad has four motors like this According to price data monitored by the specialized portal Ship&Bunker in January 2026, the average price per ton of fuel for yachts (MGO) was $715. Data from March 2026 on this same portal suggest that its price has skyrocketed to $1,379 per ton. This means that filling the fuel tank launchpad In January, Mark Zuckerberg had to pay a bill of just over 300,300 euros, while doing so today It would cost you about 579,180 euros. An extra cost of $278,880 with each refueling in just three months. Gibraltar: low cost gasoline for yachts Faced with such an increase, Mark Zuckerberg and many other wealthy yacht-owning tycoons have done what any neighbor’s son would do in this case: look for low-cost gasoline. In this case, the closest and best located is Gibraltar. As and how they stood out in The CountryGibraltar is not only a strategic rock between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean that Philip V delivered generously to the British. For superyacht owners who frequently cross the ocean, it is the equivalent of a motorway gas station as it is located on the most optimal shipping route to cross the world by sea. For superyachts that, like the launchpad, they just made Its periodic maintenance in the exclusive shipyards of La Ciotat (France), the Strait route is the shortest to go down to the Canary Islands and, from there, head to the warm waters of the Caribbean to meet its owner in Miami. The same thing happens with the reverse route, allowing ships to refuel without deviating from the most optimal route between both continents. He launchpadwhich is more similar to a small cruise ship than a pleasure boat, stops in Gibraltar regularly on its routes between Europe and America. It is not because of the pleasure of its views, but because of the price and the refueling infrastructure for superyachts, cruise ships and large freighters that has created Gibraltar. Its special tax status allows boats over 18 meters to refuel with duty free fuel, making it a mandatory stop for these giants of the sea. It is no coincidence that he is one of the bunkering points busiest in the world, with prices that, even after the escalation following the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, remain lower than in many ports in northern Europe or the eastern Mediterranean. In Xataka | The difficult part has not been building an 80-meter, $200 million yacht. It has been taken to the sea without destroying it Image | Feadship, Meta

Sandisk has risen 1,000% in the stock market since the summer. Its advantage is called Kioxia

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In just five months, Sandisk shares have soared 1,000% in one of the most astonishing recoveries in Wall Street history. The company has been the latest big beneficiary of the AI ​​boom and the rush to build data centers full of advanced AI chips… and also the memories that accompany those chips. That’s where Sandisk’s great asset comes in, called Kioxia. Value of Sandisk shares in the last six months. Source: Google Finance. Without knowing it, SanDisk was ready for the revolution. HBM memories were traditionally the favorites to accompany GPUs that were the great “brain” of AI, but the scarcity of these components with high bandwidth has meant that the spotlight has been focused for a few months on DRAM and NAND memories, two types of storage in which sanDisk is a dominant player. Like other manufacturers in its segment —Micron is one of the outstanding—, SanDisk has suddenly found itself in a situation that benefited it enormously. free money. The memory chip market works like a commodity market in which leverage can be significant. That means that when prices rise, companies like SanDisk don’t need to invest in new factories or employees to earn more — although they can build them if they deem necessary. It is as if for Micron or SanDisk this phenomenon is equivalent to “free money” because they are receiving much more income for the same products they sold a year or two ago. Not even they themselves expected it: SanDisk CEO David Goeckeler talked about the rise of AI in June, and commented “We try to estimate demand. We think demand is good. What we need is to get supply to match that.” He couldn’t anticipate what would happen with memories starting in September. DRAM and NAND memory prices are skyrocketing from the end of 2025. Source: Sherwood. The key alliance: Kioxia. In recent times SanDisk has grown significantly in your solid state drive business (SSD) for enterprise data centers. But it also maintains a historical strategic alliance with the Japanese company Kioxia, which allows it to obtain NAND chips at a much lower cost than its rivals. The profit margin skyrockets, and so do the shares on the stock market. A relationship with ups and downs. The relationship between Sandisk and Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is based on a Joint Venture from more than 20 years ago focused on the development of NAND memories. This alliance has achieved advances such as the memories BICS Flash (with 3D storage technology), the wafers that leave their factories are shared between both companies. Kioxia went through a difficult time after Toshiba’s financial crisis and failed merger attempts with Western Digital. They survived all this, and together with Sandisk now the Japanese company controls 30% of the global NAND market. Some win, others lose. The investment fund Elliot Management pushed in early 2025 for SanDisk will separate from Western Digital. They believed that at that time it was worth about $20 billion—as when he bought it a decade ago—, and that fund sold its stake just before the total market explosion. Today that stake would be worth more than $340 million. Bad business for users. But in addition to that background, the ones who have it most complicated are the users, who will continue to suffer the consequences of this phenomenon for months, and perhaps years. Neither Micron nor Sandisk/Kioxia appear to have any intention of significantly expanding production capacity. They already did this during the pandemic and that caused excess inventory when demand fell after confinement. Now they do not want to expose themselves to the same thing, and there is talk that the price increase will continue throughout 2026 and may let’s take a long time in seeing memories at prices “like those before”… if we end up seeing them. Image | Igor Shalyminov In Xataka | Japan has taken out the checkbook to once again dominate the chip industry. Prepare a plan of 325,000 million dollars

The minimum wage in Mexico has risen in January. This increase is not reaching everyone and is creating confusion

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Spain is not the only one considering annual increases in your minimum wage. Starting January 1, the Mexican workers who earn the least will see their salaries increased with a new increase in minimum wage. However, some are beginning to notice that that increase is not reflected on your payroll and is generating some confusion. The trick is that the increase in the minimum wage which has been applied in Januarydoes not imply a general salary increase for all workers, but rather a minimum legal ceiling for salaries. What is the minimum wage and what is it for? As its name indicates, the minimum wage is the legal minimum amount that any company must pay its workers. In the case of Mexico, this minimum wage is established by Conasami (National Minimum Wage Commission) a decentralized body of the Mexican government that is responsible for updating it every year with the intention of protecting those who earn the least. However, the salary increase imposed by this body does not represent a percentage that must be applied to all salaries, but rather the minimum daily amount that employees must receive per day. According to the salary table prepared by Conasami, by 2026 the minimum wage will rise to 315.04 pesos per day in most of the country and 440.87 pesos per day in the Northern Border Free Zone. That implies an increase of 13% for the majority of the country, and 5% in the border area with the United States. Why doesn’t the increase reach everyone? The point of confusion among Mexican workers centers on the erroneous interpretation that this 13% and 5% increase is for salaries, when in reality it would only affect the lowest salaries that are within the legal minimums established in the Federal Labor Law. That is, if in January 2026, a worker continues to receive a salary of 278.80 pesos (419.88 pesos for the ZLFN), which was the minimum wage in 2025, his employer would be violating labor legislation. However, if an employee already earned more than 316 pesos, his or her salary does not have to have increased, since it exceeds (even if only slightly) the minimum limit established by the Federal Labor Law for 2026. Who should see their salary increased. There are three clear groups in which there is a legal obligation to increase the salary when the minimum increases. The first and most obvious, those employees who earn less than what is established by the new minimum wage. The second assumption is for those who were already earning exactly the minimum wage in 2025, since with the update they would be out of legality in 2026. Finally, there is a third group of employees to whom, due to the type of profession they practice, a different scale is applied and, therefore, their salaries must increase even when they already exceed the minimum wage. Specifically they are 60 professional categories that Conasami estimates that, due to their characteristics, they must have a minimum wage higher than that generally applied to other workers. When the salary is “higher” but does depend on the minimum. In Mexico, the minimum wage can also be applied as a reference indicator in contracts. That is, instead of indicating a specific salary, the employment contract indicates that the salary will be, for example, three times the current minimum wage or 350% of that minimum limit. In that case, since it is a reference variable, when the minimum wage rises, those wages will also rise in the same proportion according to what is stated in those contracts. Minimum wage vs. contractual salary. An important factor is to differentiate the minimum wage from the contractual wage. That is, the one that employees agree with the companies at the time of hiring. The first guarantees that no one will be able to charge less than the official figure established each year by the Commission. If an employment contract concluded a few years ago recognizes a salary that is currently below the minimum wage imposed in 2026, the minimum wage will prevail, since its objective is for employees to update their purchasing power. The salary that appears in the employment contract loses its validity. In that case, the salary increase is not a benefit that the company grants to the employee, but rather a legal obligation. On the other hand, if the salary indicated in the employment contract still remains above the minimum wage, the employer does not have to increase it, unless individual or collective increases are agreed upon with the workers. In that case, the increases are the result of voluntary negotiation by the company to improve the working conditions of its staff. In Xataka | Airbnb and digital nomads brought dollars to Mexico City: they have also brought the biggest housing crisis in years Image | Unsplash (Jesus Herrera, Arron Choi)

NVIDIA has risen to the top for its AI data centers. Your next big leap: cars

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NVIDIA has unveiled its platform Drive AGX Hyperion 10a computing and sensor system designed for any manufacturer to produce Level 4 autonomous vehicles. Uber has already signed an agreement to deploy 100,000 units across its global network starting in 2027, and Stellantis, Lucid and Mercedes-Benz have also joined the project. Why is it important. For years, autonomous driving has been a persistent promise often wrapped in marketing. NVIDIA has turned that promise into an industrial offering with standardized architecture, certified chips, and out-of-the-box simulations. It does not sell autonomous cars, but it does sell the operating system that will make them possible. The contrast. Tesla has been selling autonomy as a leap of faith for a decade, with permanent updates, its own fleet and promises of “millions of autonomous Teslas” every year. NVIDIA, on the other hand, offers an open platform where any manufacturer can plug in their hardware. Tesla wants to be an equivalent to Apple in cars. NVIDIA prefers to be something more similar to Windows. Between the lines. Automotive only accounts for NVIDIA 1.3% of its revenue, but that segment is growing faster than the rest. In any case, Uber’s announcement has no real timetable for those 100,000 units unless it has been made public. Waymo, which has been developing its robotaxis for years, is already its sixth generation and it has the financial muscle of Alphabet behind it, it barely operates 2,000 of them. There is a considerable gap between ambition and reality. The backdrop. Drive Hyperion 10 is based on two Thor chips (2,000 teraflops each), fourteen cameras, nine radars, one LiDAR and twelve ultrasonic sensors. NVIDIA has designed it with full redundancy: if a component fails, the vehicle stops safely to avoid chain errors that multiply the potential damage. Lucid will be one of the first in offering level 4 autonomous driving to individual customers and not just fleets. Its interim CEO has admitted that so far they have disappointed in terms of driving assistance. Their commitment to NVIDIA is the classic implicit recognition: it is better to buy the brain than to build it. The money trail. NVIDIA will not continue building robotaxis for now, but for now it sells infrastructure: chips, simulation software, synthetic data… And it charges for each vehicle that uses its platform. It’s a more predictable revenue model than depending on full autonomy to arrive one day. Huang, in any case, has said that that moment is near. The interesting thing is not whether he is right, but that his definition no longer depends on blind faith. It depends on regulators, certifications and industrial tests. Autonomy has ceased to be science fiction and has become an engineering problem. And those problems are solved with processes, not with promises. In Xataka | China has turned the electric car market into a crazy race. And Porsche pays for it with billion-dollar losses Featured image | Xataka

A list of the best paid CEOs leaves us a figure of how the salary of managers has risen since 1978: 1,085%

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The Wall Street Journal publishedThe list of the best paid CEOs of 2024. The list itself already presented some curiosities. For example, the fact that, surprisingly, CEO of great technology that accumulate stock capitations Superior to the GDP of some countries, they are not found in the top positions of this list. However, its publication has put the table on the table Huge salary difference which exists between the figure of the company’s executive director and the average salary of its employees. A study of Economic Policy Institute He has investigated The evolution of this difference and has discovered that, since 1978, CEO wages have increased 1,085%. He Salary of its employeeson the other hand, it has only done so by a fraction of that percentage. The CEO who won the most in 2024. According to the list published by The Wall Street Journal Based on public remuneration data of the companies of the S&P 500, the best paid executive in 2024 was Rick Smith, CEO of Axon Enterprise that bases their business on the manufacture of electricity weapons of defense or taser. Smith received no less than 164.53 million dollars in 2023. Just behind, we find some old acquaintances of this type of listings. Lawrence Cup, as CEO of General Electric pocketed 88.95 million, or Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone that received a bonus of 84 million dollars. To find What some of the technological CEOs chargedwe must go down to the fourth place that Tim Cook occupies after receiving a salary bonus of 74.61 million dollars. Rico worker, poor worker. Beyond the salary that each company wants assign its managers For the achievements, there is the background of the salary gap between the managers of those companies and their employees. In this case we are not talking about a senior manager should charge the same as its employees, but, proportionally, the remuneration of managers have increased to a greater extent among members of the board of directors than among their workers. In your report, The researchersof the Economic Policy Institute They point out that between 1978 and 2023, the executive directors of the main companies of the S&P500 have increased their remuneration by 1089%, while the average salary of their employees has done so in 24%. Exponential growth from 90s. The data reflects that the increase in these remuneration to managers has not been linear and progressive, but shot between 90 and 2000, remaining at those levels since then. Putting the focus between the salary of the CEO and the salary average of its employees, between 1964 and 1978 an executive director charged between 15.4 and 23 times the salary of its employees. On the other hand, between 1978 and 1990 that figure amounted up to 44.9 times and, from 1995, that figure is triggered until reaching levels of 398 times the salary of its employees reached in 2000. Since then, the successive economic and financial crises have made me make that That figure oscillates between 330.2 times and 190.6 times higher than the average salary of its employees. The elite inside the elite. This increase has not only occurred among the general labor mass of the workforce, but the CEOs have become a kind of elite among the elite. The study analyzes the evolution of CEO remuneration With respect to salaries of 0.1% that charges the most in companies, and here they have also marked differences following the same pattern as with the rest of the workforce. Between 1964 and 1990, the CEO charged between 2.6 and 3.1 times more than 0.1% of better paid employees of its workforce. However, from the 90s that difference is triggered until reaching 9.2 times in the 2000s, and reaching 9.4 times the salary of the best paid employees registered in 2021. What counts is your influence. The authors of the study suggest that the astronomical salary increase of the CEO is not due to their worth making business decisions, but responds to a consideration for the weight of the manager on the Board of Directors. How much greater is its influence And power at that board is its salary. “There should be meetings of the Board of Directors where people ask: ‘Can we afford to pay less to our executive director?’ assuredto The Washington PostDean Baker, co -founder of the Institute in charge of the report. An example: Elon Musk in Tesla and his enormous capacity to influence a board of directors formed by personal friends, former collaborators and even his brother Kimbal. Thanks to this ability to influence the Board of Directors, the CEO can negotiate more generous remuneration than when they submit to the scrutiny of people without direct linking. According to the authors of the study, this capacity for influence may have made the CEO establish salary increases for faster managers, “concentrating income in the highest and leaving less profits for common workers.” A salary detached from the results. At this point, it is easy to think that this increase is due to the fact that the CEO of those companies They have been geniuses that have taken companies to their best historical dimensions and that is why they are rewarded. However, the data They tell us something else And the researchers confirm “the salary increase of executive directors does not reflect an increase in the value of skills or in the contributions to the productivity of companies,” says the EPI report. In 2024, for example, the best paid manager was Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom, with 161.74 million dollars. The Board of Directors justified its salary bonus because the company had managed to double its stock market value. However, Badrinarayanan Kothandaraman, executive director of Enfase Energy, received compensation of $ 19.52 million while his company left 50.1% of its value. Bag balls. To try to correct that dynamic, from the end of the 90s and 2000, many companies assigned company shares As part of the salary of its managers. The study data reveal that, in … Read more

The light of the light has risen a lot and the electric ones blame it for the blackout. Facua has something to say about it

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May 2025 promised to be the cheapest month thanks to the renewable generation in spring. However, consumers They have ended up paying more In the light of the light for the blackout of April 28, since they have had to activate emergency mechanisms or reinforcement systems. Now it seems that that should not have been so high. Short. Facua-Consumnadores in Action has warned the electricity marketers of the free market, In a press releasethat they cannot raise their rates unilaterally for the blackout of April 28 if that change is not provided for in the contract. A specific case. The association has loaded directly against Energía, a commercialization of the Repsol Group that has notified a 6% surcharge (about 73 euros per year), alleging an “increase in technical costs of the system” for the electricity network reinforcement system. However, like He recalled Facuaadjustment services are not part of the regulated costs (such as tolls and charges) and, therefore, do not justify a rise in the price agreed in free market contracts. The law is clear. According to the Civil Code, contracts must be fulfilled as agreed and cannot be modified according to the will of a single part (Arts. 1256 and 1258). Exceptions would only be accepted if the contract explicitly includes a clause that allows the marketer to apply these increases by extraordinary situations such as the lived. From the other part. The employer who brings together Iberdrola, Endesa and EDP, AELEC, is pressing to distribute or contain the overrages derived from the blackout. Its proposal is to transfer these extraordinary expenses – given to operate the system in “reinforced mode” to avoid new blackouts – to other concepts of the invoice, such as regulated charges, where costs by renewable or extrapeninsular are also included, according to Finch access has had access. There are more. The employer has calculated that the reinforced security strategy has meant an extra cost of 200 million euros in just one month and requires that there be an extraordinary regulatory response, so that neither consumers nor marketers assume that impact alone. As has detailed Fifodies, are in search of a “transient and exceptional” measure that relies on operation procedures 8.2 and 14.4, already provided for in the current regulatory framework. So is it valid? Legally, the key point is the type of contract that each consumer has. In free market contracts, prices are agreed for a year and cannot be modified unless the contract expressly allows. If there is no clear and specific enabling clause, the climb would be illegal, and it could be considered an abusive clause, even if there is a notice. From Facua they support this thesis in the Civil Code and in Article 65 of Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007 on consumer defense, which establishes that contracts must be interpreted in favor of the user and according to the objective good faith. That is, although the company affirms that the surcharge is justified, if you did not sign it and is not in transparent conditions, it cannot impose it. Any forecast? Today, neither Red Eléctrica nor the Ministry for Ecological Transition have clarified how much this reinforced security operation will last, nor how its costs will be distributed. From AELEC and other associations, an intervention of the regulator or the Ministry to temporarily redesign the cost distribution is expected. The objective: avoid an irreversible impact on the electrical marketing market and contain the price escalation. Image | Seoane Prado Xataka | Broady in April, more expensive invoice in May: thus has affected the system reinforcement

The rent has risen so much in Galicia that its beaches have problems hiring something fundamental: lifeguards

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The tourism industry has faced for a long time A worrying dilemma In Spain (as in other countries): as its main destinations grow and gain attractive, The price goes up of the accommodation, which makes things more and more difficult for workers who support the sector. We have seen it In Tenerifewhere there are hoteliers who are forced to Sleep in caravans For the high cost of rentals. And we see it now In Galiciawhere housing is affecting an even more sensitive group: lifeguards. Although in the official registry of the community there are registered Thousands of lifeguards Prepared to monitor the beaches, some locations are costing to sign them. And one of the reasons is the high price of rentals on the coast. Costs. The news He has revealed it The Galician mail: Although the official registration of the Xunta has more than 4,500 inscribed lifeguards, a record that exceeds 13% to those accounted for in 2024, there are areas of Galicia in which it is not easy to “sign” professionals. It is not a general something. In fact there are municipalities that have covered their vacancies well. But there are certain points in the region in which not even this abundance assures them to find vigilantes. And what is the reason? There are several factors at stake. Input, how the population is distributed. Not all municipalities have the same bag of inhabitants and, therefore, of neighbors with the lifeguard title willing to cover sand sands that remain close to their homes. Another key is working conditions. The salaries are around 1,200 euros per month, according to Precise The Galician mailand they are hired for very short periods, from two to three months. These circumstances lead to professionals who choose to move to other more southern or warm destinations, such as the Canary Islands or Andalusia, in which they can opt for six -month jobs or for full years. To solve it there are those who even has raised The possibility of betting on “a permanent body” of lifeguards who cover the heat months, more extensive. Another handicap that affects the sector is the bureaucracy: the longer the aid takes, the greater the risk that the lifeguards have sought alternatives. Housing slopes. The above are, together with the regulatory issues of the sector, the factors that have marked the guild in Galicia in recent years and explain that the region has suffered shortage of lifeguards. Now one more factor comes into play. The mail assures that this summer the consistors are proving easier to sign vigilants, but where the reason has been found with difficulties is another: the housing price, In full climb. The general price increase in Galicia as a whole, 7.1% in the last year According to idealistadded to the high seasonal demand of coastal destinations during the summer months, Galician lifeguards who have to leave their locality and rent a floor. In practice that hinders hiring in localities that have to ‘import’ lifeguards out. Is the house so expensive? A few days ago Technitas published A report in which he points out that an 85 m2 apartment on Riazor beach (A Coruña) reaches € 1,400 per week, one hundred more than last year. In Vicedo (Lugo) a 65 m2 floor costs 650 euros, one hundred more than a year ago, and in O Grove (Pontevedra) a 75 m2 house requires a disbursement of 950 euros per week. The report speaks of vacation leases, but that scenario fully affects seasonal professionals who, like lifeguards, seek accommodation for a few months. Beyond Galicia. It is not a problem that affects only Galicia. Recently Antena3 He spoke With José Luis, a lifeguard who has been in Ibiza for 25 years and who has not left any choice but to buy a caravan to have a place to live. Renting an apartment is discarded, he explains, because it costs more than he earns with his watchman work. Even the caravan option begins to complicate. “Being in a campsite costs me about 1,800 euros per month.” “This is something that happens throughout Spain and the most affected places are the ones with the greatest tourist influx, such as Balearic Islands, Valencian Community and some areas of Andalusia and Catalonia,” Confirm to The mail José Palacios, coordinator of the Research Group in Aquatic Activities and Saporrism and President of DEAC, the entity responsible for granting the blue flags to the sand. Healing in health. To make sure they will have lifeguards there are consistories that directly choose to form them. This is the case of Ribeira, in the Barbanza region, which in 2024 and 2025 He has conducted courses Own who have allowed him to prepare the young people who will be in charge of controlling the sands of the region. Another strategy to prevent them from opting for less seasonal destinations is to expand their work period: instead of hiring them in July, they are incorporated into their positions in June, when many beaches of Galicia begin to fill. Images | Pedro Dias (Flickr) and Carmelo Peciña (Flickr) In Xataka | “Fodechinchos Free”: in a bar in Galicia Tourism Fobia is being redirected against the Spaniards of other regions

The light of the light has risen because of it

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May 2025 was on its way to becoming the cheapest month in the recent history of the Spanish electrical system. The combination of abundant renewables – hydraulics, wind and photovoltaic in full spring boom – pushed wholesale prices to minimal. According to the countryin one in three hours of the month, the price was even negative. Against all forecast, consumers have ended up paying more. A higher invoice. To avoid a collapse, a series of emergency mechanisms were activated: The so -called adjustment services. These are energy reserves that allow the network to balance at times of extreme mismatch between supply and demand. However, May’s bill is now reflecting that extra cost. It does not matter that the average market price was among the lowest of the year: these adjustment services fired the regulated part of the receipt, more expensive consumers paid, especially those welcomed by The regulated rate (PVPC). The data confirms it. According to data collected by The avant -gardethe Light receipt rose on 11% in May. A increase that anticipates that May’s bill will be even higher than June, although in June market prices are rebounding. This situation has put the marketers regulated against the strings. Some are supporting losses and alert that they cannot assume this type of mismatch without structural changes in the model. A realistic example. To understand it better we have made a simulation with the Official comparator of the CNMC For average domestic consumption (221 kWh per month) it shows that in May, the PVPC bill was 46.42 euros. However, in the free market, the cheapest rates began at 48.79 euros, and many exceeded 55 or even 70 euros. Most of the analyzed offers were fixed price rates, reviewable annually, suggesting that some marketers are already impacting additional costs due to the reinforcement of the electrical system after the April blackout. At the highest end, some invoices exceeded 80 euros: more than 70% more than PVPC, for exactly the same consumption profile. A problem that will follow. Red Electrica continues to operate with an extra safety margin after the blackout of April 28. This implies keeping backup centrals, even when they are not being used, which makes the system more expensive. But beyond the conjunctural moment, the incident has once again put on the table the structural deficiencies of the Spanish electrical system, such as the absence of distributed storage, the lack of micro -redes capable of temporarily disconnecting from the main system and a little capacity for local response to disturbances. Although the official report is still pending, everything points to a structural problem rather than punctual: a centralized system unable to contain waterfall failures. The April blackout was not just a scare. He has increased the invoice and has exposed the fragility of a system that needs more decentralization, more storage and a greater capacity for local response. Meanwhile, consumers are already paying the bill. Image | Pixabay Xataka | Saving the network after the blackout has had a side effect: more expensive light and marketers to the limit

The US tariffs have not yet entered into force, but there is already a console that has risen in price: PlayStation 5

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Sony has not expected the tariff war which has unleashed the United States ends up impacting the prices of its console, and the price of PlayStation 5 In Europe, including the United Kingdom. According to Bloomberg, it will not be the only territory to suffer this price increase, since it qualifies as “likely“A future ascent also in the United States. Some reasons. The reasons that PlayStation wields In his blog They are “high inflation and fluctuation of exchange rates.” In Europe, this price change will only affect the digital edition of the console, which will cost 499.99 euros, 50 more than it cost so far, that is, the price that a standard PS5 had launch in 2020. This price increase occurs in almost the whole world, and in some areas such as Australia, also upload the price of the console with disc reader. The reader does go down. It is not the only oscillation in official prices, although luckily the record reader will suffer down: it goes from costing € 119.99 to € 79.99. In this way, if we add the updated PS5 cost of Digital and the disk drive, the increase is 10 euros with respect to the added price they had before this Sony announcement. The standard edition with Blu-ray unit does not change the price, staying at € 549.99, and PlayStation 5 pro either does its price of € 799.99. A history of uploads. It is already the second time that the Digital PlayStation rises in price: in August 2022 it has already suffered a rise from € 399.99 launch to 449.99. In that case, the standard PS5 also cost € 499.99 to the current € 549.99. At that time, The reasons used Sony They were “the high world inflation rates” and “adverse monetary trends”, very similar to the official reason for this new climb. Distance with respect to Xbox. This new climb places PS5 in an unknown position in front of its direct rival theoretical, the Xbox Series s From Microsoft, which reached the market at € 299, and has even lived occasional discounts, which places it in the range of 249-299 euros. The 1TB record version, appeared in 2023, is also cheaper than the PS5: € 349. Strategy or crisis? The repetition of reasons to justify this increase may sound like an excuse, but the truth is that the global economic situation is subject to the consequences, not yet calibrated at all, of the war war that is currently being unleashed. There are analysts who already point To that, providing a future rise in the United States, even more severe, Sony is using this increase in the rest of the world to mitigate costs: it is also done in areas such as Europe and the United Kingdom, where the tradition of PlayStation players is very high and these increases do not negatively impact as substantially as in other territories. PlayStation 5 Pro support. There is also another possible strategic reason for this rise that should not be ruled out: an attempt to redirect demand to premium products such as PlayStation 5 Prothat maintains its price. Approaching the prices of the cheapest option and the most expensive of its catalog, Sony makes this last option more attractive: the sales of PlayStation 5 Pro have not yet transcended, but above the problem of the rates, we could be facing a decision that would have ended up arriving in any case. Header | Xataka In Xataka | The US tariffs are a weapon of mass destruction in the Tech industry. Except for Chinese mobiles

The probability that the asteroid falls on Earth has risen to 2.3%. Even the Webb Telescope is monitoring it

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The last NASA calculations They place the probability that the asteroid 2024 YR4 impact with the land by 2.3%, a figure that the European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed with Its own 2.27% estimate. For those who have lost their account, in just one week of observations We have gone from 1 between 83 possibilities that the asteroid crosses the planet Earth to 1 between 43. The options are still low, but they are high enough for the offices of NASA planetary defense and that They have intensified their monitoring efforts. To the James Webb space telescope, 10,000 million dollars, will be monitoring The little asteroid. 2024 YR4 is not much, but with A diameter of between 40 and 90 meterscould destroy an entire city if it survived the reentry and impact an urban area. When? On January 22, 2032. Where? At some point in the strip that extends from the East of the Pacific Ocean to northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Arabian Sea and the south of Asia. It should be noted that These impact estimates They are calculated taking as reference the quotient between the diameter of the earth and the width of the area of ​​uncertainty of the asteroid, generated from simulations. The problem: 2024 YR4 is moving away from Earth In an elliptical trajectorywhich hinders its detection with conventional instruments. In a few weeks it will have become so faint that even professional four -meter telescopes have trouble capturing it. As of April, it will be necessary to resort to the Webb or the Vary Large Telescope of the Austral European Observatory to continue watching it until the object reappears In June 2028. The monitoring of the trajectory of an asteroid is a dynamic process that surely gives us a roller coaster of emotions. As more observations from the asteroid and its trajectory have, the probability of impact could increase again and then progressively reduce until reaching zeroconfirming the main hypothesis: that the asteroid will pass by instead of colliding with the earth. If not, the good news is that humanity has experience in asteroid diversion. In 2022, NASA’s dart mission He showed that it is possible to alter the trajectory of a spatial object through a kinetic impact. This historical achievement is the empirical test that we have the technology and knowledge necessary to at least try to protect our planet. Meanwhile, the UN has put on alert the Space Missions Advisory Group (SMPAG), which agreed to meet again at the end of April or early May to study possible mitigation measures in case the probability of impact is maintained or increased . Image | Daniel Bamberger In Xataka | The impact probability of asteroid 2024 YR4 has risen to 1.6%. The UN has already activated a special protocol

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