Irene De la Torre Arenas
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Dataviz designer & journalist at the Financial Times Before: BBC News, UCB Biopharma, MIT Senseable City Lab | Northeastern alumni with Becarios Fundación La Caixa | In the past, 🇪🇸 in 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Website: https://irenedelatorrearenas.com
NEW: The century-old device choking the AI push Transformers are fundamental to the flow of electricity and are essential to powering our modern lives. But the largest and most powerful transformers are facing bottlenecks, driving up prices and putting the relentless race for AI expansion at risk.
NEW: a look at how surging power demands from data centers are helping to drive a shortage of electrical transformers ig.ft.com/transformers/
NEW: The century-old device choking the world’s AI push Transformers are crucial devices that help power our modern lives. As demand soars, the biggest transformers are in short supply, pushing up costs and risking a bottleneck for the energy transition and the AI boom. as.ft.com/r/6b73ce3e-c...
The century-old device choking the world’s AI push
Surging data-centre power demands are intensifying pressure on transformer supply chains
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NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.
Geopolitical tensions, piracy and extreme weather are threatening critical shipping routes. Even before the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, disruptions were costing billions and intensifying competition between global powers ft.trib.al/OeXBeWO
A US satellite in blue tracks two Chinese satellites. Prudent monitoring — or rehearsal for combat? A high-stakes arms race is taking place in orbit; the winner will "control Earth by controlling space”. But things can go very wrong, very quickly. Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/iwgFTZe
🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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NEW: Just weeks ago, the shadow fleet was on the run amid a crackdown on the illicit oil trade. But the Iran conflict has given these ghost vessels a lifeline. Our latest visual story takes a deep dive into their clandestine operations. 👉 as.ft.com/r/40748722-c...
How the shadow fleet is capitalising on the chaos of war
The Iran conflict has offered the illicit oil trade a lifeline — while the easing of US sanctions widens a transatlantic rift
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Before the Iran war, the screws were turning on the world's shadow fleet – a covert network of old tankers used by the likes of Russia and Iran to bypass oil sanctions. But now, with markets upended by conflict, their trade is booming. An #FTEdit 🧵 on how the shadow fleet is cashing in on chaos 👇
NEW: The net seemed to be tightening around the shadow fleet, but now these ships are ready to capitalise on the chaos of the Iran war and restricted supplies of oil. ig.ft.com/shadow-fleet/
How the shadow fleet is capitalising on the chaos of war
The Iran conflict has offered the illicit oil trade a lifeline — while the easing of US sanctions widens a transatlantic rift
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New: Drones are redrawing the map of war in Ukraine. Relentless surveillance has pushed the battlefield 20km beyond the front, in both directions. Supplies arrive by drone; the wounded leave by robot. This is the “kill zone” — and the future of warfare. 👉 ft.com/kill-zone
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
The trouble with maps: Greenland’s allure for Trump is based on an illusion ft.trib.al/C7fknsn
The trouble with maps: Greenland’s allure for Trump is based on an illusion
Who dares tell the US president the Arctic island he covets is not as big as it seems?
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The Maga war on European democracy ft.trib.al/crWpcg8 | opinion
The Maga war on European democracy
America’s national security strategy projects internal fears abroad
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Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
New: Trump’s immigration data dragnet. @peter.andringa.me investigates the brokers and tools behind the US administration’s deportation drive. Former officials raised concerns about the volume of data, lack of oversight and shift from criminal to immigration work. ig.ft.com/us-ice-surve...
New: 'Shark's fin' chart reveals the uneven impact of 'fiscal drag', the stealth tax beloved of recent chancellors. Plus use our interactive calculator to see how fresh freezes announced by Rachel Reeves at todays Budget could affect you on.ft.com/3KqOYUL
New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port. Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social 👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews are exploited and abused — and certification schemes fail to prevent it. on.ft.com/3KakoOZ
NEW: Our investigation finds a tuna supply chain riddled with exploitation and abuse - where fishermen spend months or even years at sea. Some describe threats, beatings and deception over pay. Yet the fish they catch is still ending up on our plates. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused
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Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊
Inside the confusing world of women’s clothing sizes
Why does shopping for clothes feel like a guessing game? We looked at the numbers to find out.
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New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution. A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power. Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social 🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution
Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power
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"A century ago, design was the future. Good design, by which was meant modernist design, would create a world of fewer, better things (...) That social purpose which accompanied the birth of design as a profession quickly dissipated (...) Modernism became marketing."
FT Edit@ftedit.ft.com · 10mo agoWhy designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world on.ft.com/42Pe3i8 #FTEdit
How will the flower bloom in 2100? We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions. variable.io/plant-futures/
And it’s exciting to be a finalist in the @pressgazette.co.uk Future of Media prize for this robots work driven by the visual brilliance of @upyorkshire.ft.com, @inari-ta.bsky.social, @samlearner.bsky.social, @samjoiner.bsky.social et al. ig.ft.com/ai-robots/ pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
How AI is powering a robotics revolution
Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible
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NEW: The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights ICE plans to 6x its budget for immigrant transportation and deportations, a potential windfall for a few contractors and airlines. The system is already under strain, with serious concerns about detainees’ safety 👉 ig.ft.com/us-deportati...
