Up to €20,000 per Building: How the Canary Islands Are Trying to Get Neighbours to Produce Their Own Power
A ten-household building in Telde that decides to install shared rooftop solar panels can now claim up to €20,000 in public subsidy. A single household, up to €4,000. Those are the figures the Gran Canaria Cabildo has put on the table to push what the regional government calls, with a certain bureaucratic enthusiasm, “shared self-consumption”: […]
Starting September 4, “Hey Google” answers differently: Google is switching off Assistant and replacing it (permanently) with Gemini
There’s a phrase millions of people say every day without a second thought: “Hey Google.” Starting September 4, 2026, that same phrase will no longer wake up Google Assistant — it’ll summon Gemini, Google’s generative AI model. This isn’t a partial update or an opt-in feature: it’s a permanent replacement, officially announced by Google and […]
A Hundred Billion Dollars for a Warehouse Full of Servers: Vantage Data Centers’ Record IPO Bid
A hundred billion dollars is more than the annual gross domestic product of several European countries. It is also, according to a report by BNN Bloomberg on 13 August picked up by several financial outlets since, the valuation Vantage Data Centers is weighing as it explores a stock market listing, a deal that, if it […]
Why Gran Canaria is planting solar panels vertically between the crops
At the “La Estación” farm in the municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana, on Gran Canaria, rows of vertical structures have appeared over the past few weeks that at first glance look like two-metre fences. They’re actually bifacial solar panels, able to capture light on both sides, arranged vertically and facing north-south rather than tilted […]
Fewer Germans on holiday in the Canary Islands: what July’s numbers actually show
In the first seven months of 2026, 101,272 fewer German tourists arrived in the Canary Islands compared with the same period the year before. In July alone the drop was 9,692 people, down 5.3%, according to Observatorio Turístico de Canarias data picked up by Canarias7 and reported by Moncloa on 19 August. It’s not a […]
The Playground Becomes a Level Field: Gran Canaria Bets on Sport for Inclusion
There’s a moment in the school day that, for a student with a motor disability, can be the hardest one: recess. The playground, built for running and ball games, is often simply out of reach. That observation, hardly new but rarely tackled in a structured way, is behind “Dentro de Juego: Más Deporte, Más Igualdad” […]
La Palma’s Cruise Rollercoaster: From Record High to Crash in Thirty Days
One month, the streets of Santa Cruz de La Palma’s old town fill with passengers fresh off a ship, café tables run out and souvenir shops stay open late. The next month, quiet returns to the waterfront. That’s exactly what happened between May and June 2026: cruise traffic at the capital’s port jumped 67% in […]
92% Diesel: Why Three Canary Islands Still Can’t Break Free From Fossil Power
Ninety-two point two percent. That’s the share of electricity La Palma generated in 2025 by burning diesel in its island power plants. La Gomera comes in at 89.2%, Lanzarote at 88.8%. These are the numbers Red Eléctrica published in mid-August in its report on the Canary Islands’ 2025 electricity system, and they describe an archipelago […]
Two Hundred Works, One Return to Ithaca: Sandra Ramos’s Retrospective at the CAAM
Walking into the main hall of the CAAM, the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, these days means moving through thirty years of one artist’s work, condensed into nearly two hundred pieces. It’s called “Soñando otra Ítaca,” and it’s the first major retrospective held in Spain dedicated to Sandra Ramos, […]
SpaceX and Nvidia Want to Move AI Data Centres Into Space
A data centre doesn’t just need electricity. It needs cooling, land, fibre connections, somewhere to physically sit. SpaceX and Nvidia are trying to answer all of those constraints at once with an idea that would have sounded like science fiction just a few years ago: moving part of the compute behind artificial intelligence directly into […]