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🍓💦FEATURE: Secret wells siphoning water from a UNESCO-rated national park are the key to a lucrative berry farming empire in southern Spain A #longread #climatechange via Bloomberg Green FREE to read bloomberg.com/news/features/…

NEW: Water-guzzling data centers are becoming even thirstier with the rise of generative AI — exacerbating tensions in the communities where they are located With Clara Hernanz Lizarraga bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

EXCLUSIVA de Alonso Soto Joya : El presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, quiere que Junts per Catalunya garantice que respaldará leyes claves durante toda la próxima legislatura a cambio de una amnistía para todos los procesados judiciales por el procés.

Supply Lines newsletter - Friday #food edition - is out. Focus: what tomatoes can tell us about climate's impact on farming, w/ Flavia Rotondi + The olive oil heist from Clara Hernanz Lizarraga, the latest on India rice ban, & more bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Inditex is racing to iron bugs out of a new anti-shoplifting system for its Zara stores as the security tags were easy to identify and remove in initial tests, sources say trib.al/UIdPlBD

Theft cost US retailers $66 billion in lost sales in 2021. Inditex, the parent company of Zara, is testing a new system to combat it, but the roll-out has not been without challenges. My latest scoop:

My interview with the mayor a Spanish city leading a movement to regain streets for pedestrians Mayor Lores began limiting the flow of cars in Pontevedra in 1999. The Spanish seaside city has been growing ever since. Read for Free Bloomberg CityLab bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg CityLab

It’s too dry for Southern Spain’s once-thriving avocado industry bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Clara Hernanz Lizarraga

Grifols had a tough day bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

Renewcell's textile-recycling factory was a beacon of hope for sustainable fashion. A year later the company went bankrupt, a warning sign for the industry trib.al/N2cKfDp

The billionaires behind Puig are taking it public in a highly competitive market, where it now comes up against luxury giants like LVMH and Kering trib.al/tQvNiyb

Puig IPO: aportamos nuestro grano de arena para entender que hay detrás en el artículo de Bloomberg The billionaires behind Puig are taking it public in a highly competitive market, where it now comes up against luxury giants like LVMH and Kering bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“In less than a day I’ve lost everything.” Spain counts the cost of its worst natural disaster since 1962, with more than 200 dead and thousands of homes destroyed by floods. trib.al/jYjIeiO

Spain struggles to make sense of a flood that killed hundreds bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Clara Hernanz Lizarraga MacarenaMM Jorge Zuloaga

The crisis puts both the toxicity of Spanish politics and its fragile system of decentralized power in the spotlight and exposes the consequences of the dysfunction at the heart of government. Muy buena explicación de mis compañeros Rodrigo Orihuela Clara Hernanz Lizarraga bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Misinformation has surged online following flash flooding that has killed more than 200 people in Spain. Posts have ranged from seemingly innocuous comments about the authorities' response to false claims that the death count is understated. My latest story with Daniel Zuidijk:

Here's our attempt at explaining how and why one of the world's richest and most modern countries was so badly prepared for the deadly Oct. 29 floods in Valencia. (With Clara Hernanz Lizarraga & Thomas Gualtieri, edited by Jessica Loudis).

Retailers are looking into weaving radio-emitting threads into garments in an attempt to outsmart thieves trib.al/fiOYV2L

BREAKING: Massive -- really, massive -- electricity outage hits Spain, which large part of the country suffering blackouts (including Madrid and Barcelona). Data from Spain's national grid shows a lost of >10 GW of demand, from ~26GW to ~12GW in a few seconds. Reason unknonw.

Spain’s blackout comes as global electricity demand balloons and renewables become an ever-greater part of the mix bloomberg.com/news/newslette…