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The best platforms to share expenses on subscriptions legally in Spain

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Let’s tell you the best platforms to share expenses on subscriptions completely legally. They are all platforms that work in Spain, and are used to pay for family plans together and, thus, the subscription is cheaper than if you pay for it on your own. Digital families are always a good method to share a subscription and make it cheaper for everyone. And although many platforms try to combat them, it is still a widely used method. But if you don’t want to spend time asking your friends who wants to share a specific subscription, these platforms help you share it with strangers from all over the country. Spliit One of the pioneering and leading platforms in subscription sharing. French and created in 2019, it connects users who want to share with those who want to join a multi-user subscription. The platform charge co-subscribers a commission of 5% + 99 cents each month. For example, if the offer is 4 euros per month, you will pay 5.19 euros. Subscription owners are charged 25% of the transaction amount, with a maximum of 1 euro only the first month for each new co-subscriber. The owner publishes the ad, and those who want to co-subscribe have a search engine with all the subscription services, and with the offers in each of them. Sharingful The great Spanish alternative to create digital families. Its strong point is that everything is entirely in Spanish, from the interface to the support, although the commissions are higher than other alternatives. The platform automate paymentsalthough its catalog of services that you can share is a little lower. Even so, it offers support for sharing just over 30 digital platforms, including major streaming services. It has mobile applications, the system automatically renews your access, and also allows you to cancel at any time. Sharesub The great French alternative to Spliiit, a shared subscription service that operates mainly in Europe. Its model is the same, account owners publish their free places, and other users can join paying their proportional part of the total. Monthly payments are automated, and it has over 500 subscription services available. Its great incentive is that does not charge commissions to those who share the places in their accountsand a 5% commission plus 0.90 euros is applied to subscribers, which is already included in the price that the platform shows you. Together Price An Italian platform with consolidated presence in Spainand that also connects groups of users to share the cost of multi-user plans. It works like the others, allowing you to share the free spaces of your subscriptions or pay to access one of them. In addition to the usual streaming services, it offers music, cloud applications, video games, office automation and even design tools. Commissions are always added to the final price so that you don’t get any surprises. GoSplit A fairly large Asian platform that works like its European competitors. It offers around 200 services spread across several categories, and everything is done instantly. Of course, it receives many complaints for problems with customer servicerefunds and inactive groups, so be careful. Forums and social networks The large Spanish forums are also used to search for threads where there are users who are looking for “digital family” to share their accounts. Here, normally a group is created in a messaging app and everything is managed there. Of course, it is recommended that the person managing each account be trustworthy. In addition to that, you can also find WhatsApp or Telegram groups where accounts are shared, or even go to groups where you have friends and talk directly to them, even being able to go one by one asking questions. If your friends trust you, no one will be bitter about paying a little less. Splitwise This is the most popular expense sharing app in the world. We put it at the end because it is not explicitly used to share a subscription, although it can be used to manage the division of expenses if you are going to share a family account with your friends. Its operation is simple. First you create a group and add the subscription with what it costs per month. The app then keeps track of who owes what to whom, simplifying cross-debts, especially in cases like share multiple subscriptions in your group of friends and let each person manage one. In Xataka Basics | The best apps for Android 2026: new, essential and hidden gems

Polymarket and Kalshi have moved $130 billion so far this year. Zuckerberg has said he wants his share

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The so-called prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi have ceased to be minority apps and have become a global phenomenon, one that has already moved more than 130,000 million so far in 2026. Apart from the ethical issuesit is clear that it is a good business and Meta is preparing an app to get fully into it. What is happening. They tell it in the New York Times. Meta is developing a prediction markets app that they internally call “Arena.” The app is designed as an independent application from the rest of the Meta catalog and, at least for now, it does not work with real money but rather transactions are with a points system as if it were a video game. At the moment, the project is in the experimental phase, but the company has marked it as a high priority. Why is it important. Polymarket and Kalshi have already managed to get rid of the stigma of gambling addiction in betting houses and casinos, disguising their service with an aura of finance and trading. That Meta enters this could be the definitive step towards normalization, turning betting into another activity within online life. Let us remember that Meta has a daily user base of more than 3.5 billion between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Furthermore, this would give Meta a new type of very sensitive data: it is not only what people see and publish, it is also what they think is going to happen. By crossing all the data, they could outline future beliefs and expectations. It’s not the first. Meta already tried his luck in this prediction markets in 2020, when They launched an app called Forecast which allowed predictions to be made about real-world events, such as the COVID pandemic that was ravaging the world at that time. The app was launched only for the United States and Canada and also worked with a points system. Meta’s goal at that time was not to make money, but to make online conversation more rational. “We were interested in prediction markets because, when they work, they help participants be rational,” said Rebeca Kossnick, project leader. It didn’t last long and In October of the same year they closed it. Prediction markets. At that time, prediction markets were niche apps that almost no one knew about, but in recent years they have become almost a cultural phenomenon that has been announced at major events such as the Super Bowl or the Golden Globes. So far this year, Polymarket has been in the news for various reasons, from bets on Maduro’s capture with insider information its recent blockade in Spainwhere legislation requires them to have a gaming license. We have also learned that the vast majority of users are not making money, rather they are losing it, while professional traders take the lion’s share of the pie. Even so, prediction markets are in fashion and Meta wants to take advantage of the trend. Image | Xataka with Magnific In Xataka | I don’t bet, I invest: Polymarket and company have sophisticated gambling addiction to the point of making it indistinguishable from “investing”

Polymarket and Kalshi have moved $130 billion so far this year. Zuckerberg has said he wants his share

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The so-called prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi have ceased to be minority apps and have become a global phenomenon, one that has already moved more than 130,000 million so far in 2026. Apart from the ethical issuesit is clear that it is a good business and Meta is preparing an app to get fully into it. What is happening. They tell it in the New York Times. Meta is developing a prediction markets app that they internally call “Arena.” The app is designed as an independent application from the rest of the Meta catalog and, at least for now, it does not work with real money but rather transactions are with a points system as if it were a video game. At the moment, the project is in the experimental phase, but the company has marked it as a high priority. Why is it important. Polymarket and Kalshi have already managed to get rid of the stigma of gambling addiction in betting houses and casinos, disguising their service with an aura of finance and trading. That Meta enters this could be the definitive step towards normalization, turning betting into another activity within online life. Let us remember that Meta has a daily user base of more than 3.5 billion between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Furthermore, this would give Meta a new type of very sensitive data: it is not only what people see and publish, it is also what they think is going to happen. By crossing all the data, they could outline future beliefs and expectations. It’s not the first. Meta already tried his luck in this prediction markets in 2020, when They launched an app called Forecast which allowed predictions to be made about real-world events, such as the COVID pandemic that was ravaging the world at that time. The app was launched only for the United States and Canada and also worked with a points system. Meta’s goal at that time was not to make money, but to make online conversation more rational. “We were interested in prediction markets because, when they work, they help participants be rational,” said Rebeca Kossnick, project leader. It didn’t last long and In October of the same year they closed it. Prediction markets. At that time, prediction markets were niche apps that almost no one knew about, but in recent years they have become almost a cultural phenomenon that has been announced at major events such as the Super Bowl or the Golden Globes. So far this year, Polymarket has been in the news for various reasons, from bets on Maduro’s capture with insider information its recent blockade in Spainwhere legislation requires them to have a gaming license. We have also learned that the vast majority of users are not making money, rather they are losing it, while professional traders take the lion’s share of the pie. Even so, prediction markets are in fashion and Meta wants to take advantage of the trend. Image | Xataka with Magnific In Xataka | I don’t bet, I invest: Polymarket and company have sophisticated gambling addiction to the point of making it indistinguishable from “investing”

If you are very good at your job and your boss sends you more tasks than the rest, share this article

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Being the most committed employee in the office has a serious health risk: the more someone enjoys their job, the more trouble they end up making. things that don’t belongwhich are not going to add to your career and which, over time, can end up burning him. At least that’s what he claims an investigation from Cornell University and Northeastern University in which 4,300 employees from different sectors have participated. As and as he declared Sangah Bae, one of its main researchers, Northeastern Global News, This study was born from his own experience as a junior analyst in Chicago: the more involved he became, the more extra work fell on him. Years later, data confirm that this pattern was no coincidence. It’s not a coincidence: it’s a pattern. The researchers found that managers tend to assign additional tasks to employees who perceive as more motivated. In a field survey with 834 middle managers, 55% chose the employee they considered most motivated to assign extra tasks, even when the managers had data on variables such as age, experience or work performance, the perception of the employee’s motivation prevailed in their choice. The laboratory experiment was even more revealing since the researchers designed groups of three people in which one played the role of manager and the other two as employees, competing for a financial bonus linked to their performance. In this scenario, 74% of those acting as managers assigned the extra task to the most motivated employee, even though they knew that this hurt their chances of collecting that bonus. As a result, only about 31.37% of the most motivated employees ended up receiving an extra bonus for their performance improvement. Motivational oversimplification. According to the study According to Bae and Woolley, behind this tendency is a specific psychological mechanism that researchers have called “motivational oversimplification.” The manager’s reasoning is based on the fact that, if this employee enjoys his main job, he will probably also enjoy any extra task equally, even if it has nothing to do with what he usually does and is monotonous and routine tasks that they do not contribute anything. The researchers say that managers “can assume that employees who enjoy their main job will also enjoy additional tasks and that this enjoyment will protect them from burnout.” That is, if it is assumed that the employee will enjoy the task, it is assumed that it will not cost him that much to do it. The study data quantifies this perception gap: managers estimated a drop of just 0.2 points in the motivated employee’s job satisfaction when assigned extra work, while affected employees reported a drop of a full point on that same scale. When motivation turns against you. In one of the study tests carried out over a period of six days, managers chose the most motivated employee 69% of the time, which is equivalent to an average of 4.2 out of every 6 extra tasks assigned. This assignment pattern was repeated every day, which suggests that managers generate systematic inequality in the workload within their teams without being aware of it. “When managers have to assign extra work to their employees, they opt for the easiest option: a person they can trust. That employee who is your shortcut, that person you turn to regularly, who seems to be engaged and enjoy their work, could actually be silently suffering burnout,” Bae said. …and the motivation runs out. As revealed the study OSH Pulse 2025 of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), 44% of EU workers are regularly exposed to task overload. In Spain, this percentage reaches 49%, and one in three European workers (29%) acknowledges having suffered stress, depression or anxiety caused or aggravated directly by their work in the last twelve months. In Spain, the number of employees affected by task overload rises to 40%. As and how they stand out in Harvard Business Reviewthe study by Cornell and Northeastern Universities adds a new variable that these occupational health data do not include: this burden is not distributed randomly among all employees of a company, but rather tends to concentrate precisely on the employees who are most involved.

This is the new Movistar Plus+ plan that you can even share with a friend

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The more options a company gives us, the better. Movistar Plus+ has been offering all its content for a monthly or annual subscription for a long time, although just a few weeks ago it added its Free Plan. Did it seem like little to you? Well, a new option has just been released: it is a plan that we can subscribe to for only 4.99 euros. Without permanence and whatever operator you are. Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus+ – Cinema and Series The price could vary. We earn commission from these links Less than five euros without permanence and regardless of which operator you are This streaming platform is one of the most complete that we can choose today. The reason for this is that, in addition to offering a lot of movies, series or documentaries (many of them original and exclusive to the platform), it also broadcasts football and other sports in general. But, What if you don’t like them? Well that’s where this new plan comes in. What exactly does it offer? This plan, which, remember, only costs 4.99 euros per month, remove sport from the equation. In other words, it gives you access to movies, series and documentaries of all kinds, as well as more than 70 television channels. In addition, it maintains three key attributes of the 9.99 euros per month: we can subscribe regardless of the operator, it has no permanence and we can share it with a friend without problems. And you only need a card and an email. There is a lot to do with this plan. For example, if we focus on cinema, there are films awarded at the Goya (such as ‘Sundays‘ or ‘Dinner’) or Oscar winners (such as ‘The Sinners‘ either ‘Weapons‘). And series? There’s the newcomer ‘I always sometimes‘, as well as ‘Empathy’ or the final season of ‘Outlander’. Furthermore, the good thing is that this plan does not replace the one that the platform was offering. If you prefer to have matches like the next Bayern Munich-PSG or the Clásico next weekendyou will also be able to see them on Movistar Plus+ for 9.99 euros per month. In this case, you also have the option of taking the annual plan (which is worth 99.90 euros) and save two months. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Movistar Plus+ In Xataka | Movistar Plus+ activates its Free Plan with complete programs and a lot of content, regardless of which operator you are In Xataka | Movistar Plus+ for non-Movistar customers: what it is, how much it costs, channels, additional services and how to contract it

US sanctions have left its current market share at 0%

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In just two years Nvidia has gone from leading the GPU market to artificial intelligence (IA) in China to not sell practically anything in this country. In fact, Jensen Huang, the CEO of this company, has confirmed just a few hours ago now Its market share in this Asian nation is 0%. This dramatic scenario for Nvidia is the result of two decisive strategies of the governments of China and the United States. Early October 2024 the Chinese Administration sent to its AI companies a recommendation asking them to use chips produced in China as much as possible. Ten months later this recommendation became a requirement. And the Chinese Government is already forcing state-owned data centers throughout the country to use at least 50% Chinese integrated circuits in their servers. The Administration led by Xi Jinping has made this decision because it can afford it. And it is that It already has three very clear alternatives to Nvidia: Cambricon Technologies, Huawei and Moore Threads. This panorama has led Jensen Huang to decide to openly criticize the US export policy. AND has done it on several occasions during the last few years. The head of Nvidia is not enough to be the most attractive option for his Chinese customers; It also has to deal with the decisions of the US Government. US sanctions on China are destroying Nvidia Jensen Huang holds that the US will not protect its technological hegemony by blocking AI chip exports; According to this executive, what Donald Trump’s Government must do is ensure that the American AI ecosystem is dominant worldwide. The current scenario proves him right, but at the moment nothing indicates that the US Administration is going to bet on its strategy. At least not in a consistent way from a practical point of view. And the US Department of Commerce does not give the slightest respite to American AI chip designers. When these companies receive an order from one of their Chinese clients must apply for an export license to this government entity and indicate which GPU they intend to send to China, their specifications and which client is going to use them, among other relevant information. The Office of Industry and Security is also responsible for carrying out investigations into the tariffs deployed by the Administration led by Donald Trump. Once the bureaucracy has been put in place, Department of Commerce technicians analyze export applications in the framework established by current regulation and approve or deny the sale of integrated circuits to China. This is the usual procedure, so there is nothing new up to this point. However, Nvidia, AMD and other American AI chip designers face a very serious problem: the Commerce Department takes several months to process their export licenses. The staffing of the Department of Commerce has been drastically reduced in recent months, and in the current context this scenario represents a very serious problem. The Industry and Security Office of this entity is not only responsible for processing export licenses linked to AI chips; is also responsible for carrying out tariff investigations deployed by the Administration led by Donald Trump. And with fewer personnel than in 2024 and 2025 it cannot cope. According to Bloombergthe Office of Industry and Security has lost 101 employees in recent months, which represents a 19% reduction in staff compared to what it had in 2024. Curiously, the staff specifically dedicated to developing standards linked to the semiconductor industry and reviewing applications for export licenses has decreased by 20%, although at the moment it has not emerged what is the reason for this staff drain. Be that as it may, during 2025 the Office of Industry and Security took an average of 76 days to resolve export requests, but this period is increasing in 2026. Very bad news for Nvidia and AMD. Image | NVIDIA More information | Tom’s Hardware In Xataka | The US remains committed to stopping China. Now it has targeted the second largest Chinese chip manufacturer

Football, movies and series for 9.99 euros per month with Movistar Plus+. Without permanence and you can share it with a friend

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When a long-running series comes to an end, it’s a great time to start it or pick it up if you’ve ever fallen by the wayside. That’s what happens with ‘Outlander’, which recently premiered its final season. and that you can see, in full, on Movistar Plus+: it costs to subscribe 9.99 euros per month. And it has no permanence. Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus+ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links You can share Movistar Plus+ with a friend or family member There are several things to take into account about Movistar Plus+. The first is that we can subscribe even if we have Internet or mobile rate with another company. Also, since it has no permanence, we can try one or two months (or however long) and unsubscribe at any time. And be careful, because you can share your password with a friend and thus share expenses. Each one with its own profile, too, so you can continue your series where you left them. As we said above, now is a good time if you are interested ‘Outlander‘. With the arrival of the eighth and final season, we have the opportunity to see how this series ends, as well as to get hooked from its first season, since Movistar Plus+ has the entire series. And with Easter just around the corner, ideal for a marathon. Speaking of Easter, if you are one of those who plan to travel, Movistar Plus could be great for you. The platform allows you to download your movies and series to watch them offlinesomething that is perfect for those very long and boring flights or train journeys. There you can download, for example, Goya award-winning movies like ‘Sundays‘ either ‘Deaf‘. It doesn’t end there: Movistar Plus+ also has a lot of sports. With the subscription we will be able to watch great soccer games such as, without going any further, Real Madrid-Manchester City tomorrow. Also tennis, basketball and rugby, all live. And if, in addition, you have a cultural bonus, You can get a year of the platform for only 39 euros. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Movistar Plus+ In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more In Xataka | Best televisions in quality price. Which one to buy and seven recommended 4K smart TVs

The Goya and almost all the nominated films, on Movistar Plus+. It has no permanence and you can share it with whoever you want.

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The month of February ends with the Goya Awards gala. This 40th edition is being held in Barcelona, ​​but you can watch it without leaving your couch with Movistar Plus+: a streaming platform that only costs 9.99 euros per month and has no permanence. What if what interests you are only the movies? You also have almost all of them in the platform catalog. Monthly subscription to Movistar Plus+ The price could vary. We earn commission from these links ‘Sirat’ or ‘Los Domingos’ are just examples of everything Movistar Plus+ has to offer Movistar Plus+ is a platform that we can contract regardless of the operator we are, so it does not matter if we do not have anything else from this company. Furthermore, since it has no permanence, you can try it for a month and, if it doesn’t convince you, unsubscribe. All without forgetting that you can share the account with a friend or family membersince it supports two simultaneous plays. Goya’s turn. Right now (and until next March 3) we have an active channel focused on these awards. There we can see the gala live, which will begin with a special preview at 7 p.m. After this, we will have the red carpet and at 10 p.m., the entire gala. Now it’s the nominees’ turn. On this platform we will be able to see many of them, among which ‘Sundays‘with 13 nominations,’Sirat‘ with 11 nominations and ‘Maspalomas‘ with 9 nominations. To these we must add others of many carats such as ‘Los Tigres’‘La Cena’ or ‘Very Far’, among others. Beyond movies, we also have series and a lot of football. That includes LaLiga matches such as the upcoming Real Oviedo-Atlético de Madrid (February 28) or Athletic-Barcelona (March 8), but also the semifinals of the Copa del Rey or Champions League matches. Everything together forms a great offer that, as we said above, costs 9.99 euros per month or 99.90 euros If we opt for its annual subscription, which is cheaper in the long run. Some of the links in this article are affiliated and may provide a benefit to Xataka. In case of non-availability, offers may vary. Images | Movistar Plus+ In Xataka | Mega-guide to set up a home theater: projector, screen, sound system and more In Xataka | The best streaming platforms 2025 | Comparison of Disney+, Netflix, HBO Max, Prime Video, Movistar Plus+, Filmin, Apple TV, SkyShowtime and Rakuten TV: catalog, functions and prices

Now OpenAI lets you share your friends’ phones with ChatGPT. The question is why would anyone want to do that?

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ChatGPT is changing in leaps and bounds: we already know that announcements will arrive sooner rather than later and how will they work and in recent days OpenAI has sent its users an email like the one you see above informing about an update to your privacy policy. The first aspect that changes: the appearance of the mythical “Find friends in OpenAI services” in a step to become a more social platform synchronizing contacts. The message in question: “You can now choose to sync your contacts to see who else is using our services. This is completely optional.” Finding friends in OpenAI apps. The OpenAI privacy policy page allows you to consult the current version and the previous onewhere we see that there is a section that was not there before: in addition to account information, user content, communication information and other information you provide, another one appears: “Contact Data” is new. What it literally says: “If you choose to connect your device contacts, we upload information from your device’s address books and check which of your contacts also use our Services. If any of your contacts are not already using our Services, we will inform you if they sign up for our Services later.” What does it mean. That is, OpenAI wants to access and store the information from your phone’s phonebook to divide your contacts’ phone numbers into two: those who already have an account and those who don’t. The idea is to find contacts that you know who use tools like Sora or the group chats through suggestions. But also take note of those who don’t use their services as they let you know if they sign up later. The option is not yet operational and OpenAI has not yet explained how it will be implemented in the app. What we do know is that it is optional (that is, you can refuse) and that what the company led by Sam Altman will save are the phone numbers in your device’s address book. Neither the names nor the details of the entire notebook. How it will work. OpenAI has detailed that the phones are hashed to later compare them with existing OpenAI accounts, from which the suggestions appear. The next question is: how long do you store them? OpenAI itself has that question in its help sheet, but the answer is not clear at all. After this process of searching for matches between your agenda and its database, contact lists are half deletedbecause it also ensures that “encrypted phones could be kept on OpenAI servers to facilitate connection functions.” Everything indicates that OpenAI will periodically check if anyone of your contacts has noticed. In any case, we still don’t know the answer. Of course, you will have the option to revoke the permissions. Why do you want to know that haha ​​salu2. The company has not offered images of what the experience will be like or what functionalities it will unlock for those who agree to share this information. So why would you want to accept this option? For now, to see suggestions from users in your calendar, like Manolo the plumber or your cousin Pili from Utebo, with whom you may not talk too much about your projects in group chats or your experiments in Sora. If you decide to connect with that person, that person may receive a notification to follow you. He follow back of a lifetime, come on. The small print. With what we know and taking into account the use we make of OpenAI services, perhaps the option of becoming friends with the plumber via Sora is not essential. However, even if you do not agree to participate, anyone who has your number and agrees to synchronize their contacts will be giving your number to OpenAI. Even if you don’t have an account. It’s all advantages (for OpenAI). Finding advantages for users of this optional feature costs, just the opposite of seeing the benefits of OpenAI. To start, weave a network that invites you to use OpenAI tools because your environment uses it (I stay because everyone uses it). Likewise, by seeing who is not on the platform, OpenAI can also incentivize you to invite them to encourage their organic growth at a critical time where competition is fierce. Connecting contacts also has a potentially interesting side: that OpenAI develops more collaborative tools that invite you to use and spend more time in the app. Finally, with this function the company behind ChatGPT can establish a social graph on interests, educational levels and professional environments, cinnamon sticks to improve personalization or simply to help them validate identity and security in the case of minors. In Xataka | We already know how ads will work on ChatGPT. We have bad and not so bad news In Xataka | Anthropic is growing so fast that OpenAI’s problem is growing at the same speed: losing the market that matters Cover | OpenAI communication with Mockuphone and Codioful (Formerly Gradient)

Spain and Portugal have “free” energy right now. If we do not share it with Europe it is due to only one reason: France

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While the Iberian Peninsula registers a surplus of unprecedented renewable energy at bargain prices, the rest of the continent continues to be suffocated by triple-digit bills. In the middle of these two realities a wall rises, not of stone, but of political and nuclear interests: France. The northern neighbor acts as a plug that prevents cheap energy from the south from flowing north, protecting its atomic industry at the expense of European consumers’ pockets. Two Europes disconnected. The data from February 11 are a blow to the table of European integration. According to the records of OMIE and ESIOSthe average daily market price in Spain has plummeted to €4.23/MWh, with hours in which producers have had to pay for injecting energy (negative prices of -€0.42/MWh). The situation in Portugal is even more extreme: the megawatt hour is paid at €0.34, that is, practically free. However, it is enough to cross the Pyrenees for reality to change drastically. The price map ESIOS turns central and northern Europe red: Germany pays electricity at €100.62/MWh, Belgium at €72.04/MWh and the Netherlands at €88.70/MWh. France, strategically located in the middle, enjoys a comfortable price of €13.61/MWh, benefiting from buying cheaply from the south without missing out on the flow to its northern neighbors. This disparity perfectly visualizes the concept of “energy island”: a peninsula overflowing with resources that does not have enough bridges to share them. The great uncoupling of February. What we are experiencing these first two weeks of February is what experts call a “total decoupling.” According to the analysis of Aleasoft Energy Forecastingthe arrival of several Atlantic storms has triggered wind and hydroelectric generation on the peninsula. By adding the solar contribution, the supply has far exceeded the internal demand. The Iberian market (MIBEL) has seen how their prices They fell by 43% in Spain and a staggering 74% in Portugal in just one week, reaching daily averages of €0.54/MWh, values ​​that had not been seen since April 2024. Meanwhile, the Energy Charts graphs show that Germany has continued with prices oscillating above €100/MWh for much of January and early February, still depending on non-renewable sources. The drama of throwing away energy. Having cheap electricity seems like excellent news for the domestic consumer, but it hides a serious systemic inefficiency. As there are not enough cables to export this surplus to a Europe thirsty for cheap energy, Spain is forced to carry out curtailment (technical discharges). As we have already explained in Xatakawe are literally throwing away around 7% of clean energy because it “does not fit” into the grid and has no outlet. This scenario causes zero prices that, paradoxically, can ruin renewable investors, who need profitability to continue deploying parks. Furthermore, the situation has uncovered the seams of the Spanish internal network. The network is administratively “collapsed”: the CNMC has had to delay until May 2026 the publication of the capacity maps because, under the new security criteria, 90% of the network nodes appear saturated. Only 12% of connection requests are being approved, which means that we have the energy, but the cables are missing to bring it to new industries and homes. The French nuclear “bunker”. If there is excess energy in the south and lack in the north, why not build an electric highway? The answer has its own name: nuclear protectionism. President Emmanuel Macron has declared that interconnections They are a “false debate”arguing that Spain’s problem is a “100% renewable model that its own network does not support.” However, the data refute the Elysée story. As expert Joaquín Coronado explainsSpain is not 100% renewable (it closed 2025 at 55.5%) and, in fact, it was Spain that came to the rescue of France in 2022 and 2025, exporting electricity through its combined cycles when the French nuclear park failed due to corrosion and heat problems. The reality, according to the CEO of RedeiaRoberto García Merino, is that the blockade “is not technical, it is pure geostrategy.” France needs to make profitable a pharaonic investment of 300,000 million euros in its nuclear park and fears that the massive entry of Spanish solar energy, much cheaper, will sink the prices and competitiveness of its reactors. Therefore, Paris has explicitly excluded of its 2025-2035 network plan the key interconnection projects for Aragon and Navarra, keeping the Iberian Peninsula as an island with only 2.8% interconnection, very far from the European objective of 15%. Any solution on the table? Brussels’ patience is running out. The European Commission has already issued an ultimatum to Francegiving him a period of nine months to unblock the situation and present a political declaration of commitment. Meanwhile, the only project that advancesalthough slow, is the submarine cable through the Bay of Biscay. Redeia confirmed that the laying campaigns will begin this summer of 2026, with an eye on its entry into operation by 2028. An unsustainable contradiction. Within the European Union, it is happening that while one member country desperately seeks energy autonomy and competitive prices for its industry, it allows another of its key partners to keep the door to the south closed. Spain could be Europe’s green battery, but without export capacity, that wealth is diluted in negative prices and technical waste. Everything happens while France acts as a strict customs officer that protects its atoms, preventing the European Union from truly being an energy union. Image | freepik Xataka | The great electrical jam in Spain: we have plenty of electricity, but there are no cables to build houses and invest more

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