Marcos Pérez Sánchez

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Traductor. Madrid.

✍️ New article: Billions of people have access to far less electricity per day than is required to run an air conditioner for just one hour. For five months of the year, temperatures in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, climb above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).

Energy poverty: How long could the average person run an air conditioner every day?

Horizontal bar chart showing how many minutes a typical 1000W single-room air conditioner could be powered by the average per capita residential electricity use in various countries. Values by country: India 44 minutes; Sri Lanka 39 minutes; Pakistan 37 minutes; Zimbabwe 25 minutes; Nigeria 13 minutes; Kenya 10 minutes; Haiti 8 minutes; South Sudan 4 minutes; Rwanda 3 minutes; Chad 1 minute. Key insight: large disparities in residential electricity access, with even the highest-listed country able to run a 1000W air conditioner less than one hour per day. Footer data source text: Data source: Calculated based on International Energy Agency and UN World Population Prospects. Chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data

“There’s a simple goal we as a band set out to achieve: to make a dance record,” Sturgill Simpson says about his new Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds album. It’s a physical release only, but these lyrics to “Make America Fuk Again” were shared with the announcement. stereogum.com/2489106/stur...

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🤖 La inteligencia artificial ha convertido la memoria en el nuevo cuello de botella tecnológico. 🌏La explosión de los centros de datos dispara la demanda, presiona los precios y refuerza la dependencia global de Asia.

El nuevo cuello de botella que ha provocado la IA (y que nos arroja a brazos de Asia)

La explosión de los centros de datos está disparando la demanda y agotando las reservas de memorias Flash y DRAM, reforzando la dependencia tecnológica de Asia

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