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I really like what Spain is doing recently. If it weren't for climate change, I'd consider moving there.
The current government has little chance to get re-elected, and the next one will revert most of these decisions.
It could be worse can only take a government so far. Eventually, just preaching to the choir catches up with you.
Canary Islands are part of Spain and probably unaffected from climate change - we have 19-22°C all year round. If it raises to 25° still pretty livable.

    and probably unaffected from climate change
No place is unaffected.
No, but the island's climate will still be chill.
Most places will be unaffected. It'll only affect places where humans are, and we're not even close to filling up the planet
> It'll only affect places where humans are

What?

I think he meant to say the "planet" where humans are
Climate change affects places where more people live because more suffer from it but the wild temperature fluctuations won’t spare much of the planet in various ways from wet bulb effects, costal erosion, air major currents changing, glaciers melting and so on.
Islands are extremely vulnerable to climate change all over, as they are completely dependent in near-term precipitation for all their water (no rivers, no aquifers).
No rivers and no water is reality here for quite a while already. The islands rely a lot on desalination, and there is a big EU-funded project going on to create a desalination plant that not only is used to supply tap water, but the water basin of a new hydroelectric plant [0]. Desalination pretty much solves water issues, IF you have the energy (ideally renewable).

[0]: https://renewablesnow.com/news/construction-starts-on-200-mw...

Desalination solves water issues for tap water. Islands may be short on surface area.

I would also never use the word "solve", as this is just for human usage. The ecosystems themselves are irreversibly destroyed.

It isn't that simple, Canary Islands already counts with 2.2 million + tourists people and the fresh water is a highly risk resource even when desalinization plants are widespread, the groundwater aquifers are severely compromised. The mild weather heavily depends on the trade winds. But models predict that due to fact of being so close to Africa heat waves are prone to be more and more frequent compromising the water resources.
Ok but most of the populated areas of the Canary Islands are a tourist shithole, not somewhere you would want to live.
The two capitals (Santa Cruz and Las Palmas) are pretty good spot to live in. Tourism focuses on the south on both islands. Las Palmas has a beach with a bit touristic activity, but its not drinking tourism like Mallorca or Benidorm. Combined with nice weather all year round overall a greaet place to live. Very walkable cities, you can do without a car. Taxis are cheap. Thanks to the tourists, cheap flights all year round, every day, to all major european cities.

But yeah, if you come with kids, factor in private schools. The public system here is broken. As for internet, I pay less than 10€/month for 500Mbit fibre - I couldn't even get that in Germany and if could it would be north of 80€.

There's very little decent work though. If you live there you're either fully remote which is rare these days, or you work in the tourist industry.
Yes, you must bring your remote job unless you want to work for less-than minimum wage in a restaurant.
> If you live there you're either fully remote, or you work in the tourist industry.

Or you are a doctor, a teacher, an architect or a bananas farmer. Some of the richest families in the islands just export/import commodities since three generations.

Oh yeah I was thinking tech sector when I wrote that. Because of the community here.
Canary Islands will be affected (severely) for any change on the sea currents. Because the marine trophic chains will change.

A warmer ocean means much bigger storms over the islands. This has both positive and negative aspects.

Are you sure? It is sometimes close to 30°C in summer in Fue. BTW, did you forget sealevel rises, dust from Sahara, what is you have many days of > 40km/h winds. all those are climate change.
Much of Spain is indeed getting very unpleasant in the summer with climate change, but in the north there are still regions that are quite fine at the moment. Where I am, we recently beat the all time temperature record with 35 degrees, but that was a single day. Most days these weeks it isn't going over 25.

The problem is that the right is poised to win the next election and will probably undo all the policies you like. They're pretty much against everything that has been done in the last 7 years. I still have some hopes that Sanchez might clinch another term because he's a political survivor, but prospects are not great.

He just put the last nail in the coffin when he gave citizenship to millions of migrants while Spanish has one of the highest unemployment rate of Europe.
You're far better off having a million new young workers than having a million undocumented young people hidden in the shadow economy.

They were already there. Flicking a switch and turning them into participants in the economy and society at large is a positive move.

they were already there? they came in the last 3 years. and who let them in? and what is being done to prevent another illegal million from arriving
Please only worry about the USA. That's enough insanity the world can handle at a time.
If talking about the US, then...

> they came in the last 3 years

So you admit they're already here.

> and who let them in?

This isn't a political rally so that's not relevant to this discussion.

> what is being done to prevent another illegal million from arriving

Since we're talking about existing undocumented humans, that's not relevant to this discussion.

the only ones that were already there are celtiberians, who have been in spain for 3 millenia and are being wiped out in a generation
are you able to write a sentence without lying?
is this a robot that screwed up?

are there missing replies which support the idea of writing sentences that are all lies? is there a bug in HN? Im so confused

the earlier couple comments make sense for some old spanish fascist complainjng that people the older fascists didnt kill are now dying out, but what is this a reply to?

where's the rest of the lies?

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And tax payers of course! It's not a bad idea at all.
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I'm not a fan of that, but it's not like the opposition is going to be different in that respect (or like they have been different in the past). It's the companies and elites who are demanding those migrants to keep wages low, so the right will happily provide.

We will get the same migration policy (maybe with some purely aesthetic changes for show), but with the whole kit of fawning over Trump and the US, denying or minimizing climate change, cutting taxes for the wealthy, privatizing public services and so on.

He didn't give citizenship, but legalised their status as immigrants.
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> he gave citizenship to millions of migrants while Spanish has one of the highest unemployment rate of Europe.

This is an interested propaganda

First: This people are not just migrants and some aren't even migrants. They are the grandsons of Spaniards that had to flee the country in the dictatorship and Civil War to avoid being murdered. The parents of this people should have dual-Spanish citizenship yet, unless they voluntarily refused to it.

The idea that the grandsons of Jews from Germany should have some legal path to reclaim German citizenship if they want it, looks 100% reasonable to me. Their families inhabited Germany for generations, much before the mustache disgrace was born. Who was Hitler or Franco to claim "you can't live here because I don't like you"?

And, just for the record, Spain, the country that Nuts calls "antisemite" every two weeks, has granted citizenship also to 72,000 Sephardic descendants since 2015 for a similar reason.

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Second: The migrants aren't stealing the jobs from anybody. They were forced to work illegally in conditions that Spaniards wouldn't accept, but still need to compete with.

Prosecuting people that keeps migrant slave workers sewing for 20 hours a day in a dark basement is of top priority to Spanish workers, because this breaks and poison the job market (lowering wages for everybody); and puts the legal workers that do pay taxes on an unfair disadvantage.

Most Spanish workers able to think are very happy with that move to heal the market; And those that aren't should think twice, because this move massively benefits them in their objective to keep their small family business open.

As long as a migrant didn't commit serious crimes before, this grants them a permit to work legally and pay taxes, but is not the same as citizenship. They can't vote.

I still think it will be a coalition and not a full right government.

How is the AC situation now is Spain? Has the country mass adopted AC in homes and offices?

Most homes and public spaces have AC installed, but it doesn't help as soon as you set your foot on the street.
You'd even like better the corruption they are trying to deflect from with their edgy foreign policy
In the CPI Spain is not that far off from countries like France, Italy or the US and better than the global average.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025

I'm currently living in Mexico and here corruption is a much more serious issue.

I imagine there will be a lot of AC retrofitting across Europe in the coming years. Investment opportunity?
Ventless temperature control units are extremely popular there so it's probably not an unwise investment but you're not really ahead of the curve. The construction of most European buildings[1] lends itself poorly to anything that requires knocking a hole in a wall but the systems that can exhaust heat through water lines are usually quite reasonable to set up.

1. Though this is significantly less prevalent in Spain due to a lot of reconstruction happening after the civil war - that isn't to say buildings there are perfect, they just have different problems than the classic German 30cm thick stone wall.

The price of AC gases had skyrocketed by EU laws, and more than half of the bill are just taxes.

Some gases, like ammonia are easy to manufacture, other are being banned by environmental concerns, and other depend on international trade nets that can be shocked at any time if somebody trumped that morning. Investing in AC should depend heavily on the kind of refrigerant used in your product.

And then you'll have to choose another country after the next elections. Or even before, cause liking politicians from afar somehow much easier than when living in the same country.
I'm moving there.

Climate change is going to affect everywhere, and yes, a lot of Spain will experience desertification over the course of my lifetime. I am moving from Texas to Spain, though, so I am used to heat from a pure personal comfort perspective.

One interesting point is that Spain is well-situated in terms of its energy mix: it's a leader of renewables in Europe. It was also able to negotiate a carve-out from collective energy pricing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_exception), so Iberian energy markets are generally cheaper than broader European markets. This will have downstream economic effects for the country and makes it easier to afford using AC. I will always install AC wherever I live. There are far too many avoidable heat deaths in Europe in particular given their level of economic development. I don't blame them at all given the need is relatively new, but it's really a sad phenomenon.

If you are a true climate doomer (realist?), also, Spain is going to fare as well as one can in Europe should the AMOC collapse. It's not the best place to be globally in a scenario like that, though, to say the least.

For me, with everything going on in terms of world events, life choices are basically just placing bets about the future. There is no truly safe or best choice in a lot of scenarios.

The no AC in Europe thingy is mostly central and north Europe, where, in fairness, it didn't use to get very hot but now have heat waves fairly often.

Spain, Portugal, Italy and other southern European countries have very wide spread AC usage.

>southern European countries

They also have colder beers than Germany probably for the same reason. Nothing beats the culture acclimation of wincing while sipping lukewarm beer under the July sun in 100+ degrees Berlin.

At 100+ European degrees, your beer would be boiling and you'd be cooked alive.
that was F degrees obviously, so 38 in "euro".
Nice. I don't know what your comfort with swimming is but battling extreme heat also happens to be much easier when you have large welcoming bodies of water for humans to wade in. It boggles the mind that for all its coast line the only place the US has that's comparable is Hawaii pretty much.

Sure extreme heat might ruin the seas too eventually (there is already talk of Asian jellyfish species being spotted in record warm sea temperatures) but the amount of due dilligence is non-existent compared to the US, Australia, or far east Asia.

One of the few countries willing to go against Israili propaganda.
Still holding out for the thread where we name the Jew across the board.
Great news for Spain. I hope more European countries wake up to what's going on.
Spain is really going in the right direction, I wonder why no one countries inspire from what they are doing
Except for the unsustainable immigration agenda that is turning the country into another USA.
It seems in current discourse, turning a European country into another USA is a compliment.
Why do you thinks so?

A country with narcissistic criminal as leader who damages the US science for decades, kills people by dismantling USAID. The raising costs because of his four-week-war against Iran doesn’t help either but damages the economy worldwide.

I didn't say I think so - I said in current discourse - e.g. this site and x.com. The narrative is that Europe is stagnant and US has pulled ahead, at least economically.

I think that can be consistent with Trump destroying the long term future of the country and the planet.

I think the immigration is what keeps Spain from turning into another Japan or Germany - a stagnant, overly old place stuck in time.
Germany has had an immense amount of immigration over the past couple decades.
Immigrants but not immigration because there aren’t enough resources to help all the people to integrate.
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Which is a political choice - not necessarily a resource problem. Germany, if any, would have the resources to help with integration but for decades most people and politicians were living in denial that people from other countries that came to Germany actually wanted to stay and _live_ there or were living in a world were state debt was seen as the devil's spawn.
Just came back from Japan and I found it vibrant and modern.
Did you visit the countryside?

Japan has an aging problem and a big misogyny problem too.

If you went to Japan in the 90’s, 00’s or 10’s, you’ll find the issue is that Japan still feels mostly the same. It’s a wonderful country, but post-Japan’s asset bubble and crash there’s been noticeably less change.
Besides the mentioned comments Spanish speaking immigration is much more welcomed by radical right AND Germany had a lot of German speaking immigration from Eastern Europe. There are just no German speaking minorities left in other countries.
And in Spain most immigrants are from Latin America with close enough culture and language to avoid most integration problems.
I wouldn't say most.

It's around 55–60% of immigrants who come from Spanish-speaking countries.

Also, this uses official numbers, which reflect a larger Spanish speaking share than there is in reality (as people from Spanish-speaking countries have more straightforward visa processes).

So the real percentage is probably much lower (as there are a lot of undocumented migrants. 1.2 million applied for "legalization").

spain has a significant rich-brit problem of englishmen spending lots of money and not learning spanish
Which aspect is unsustainable?
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Oh? I did not realize there were warlord armies rampaging through the countryside in hope of establishing dynastic Muslim rule. Pat yourself on the head for such an astute historic parallel.
Except they don't seem to be an Isreali puppet state
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Looks like we’re doing this in the UK soon too.
indeed, and he has apparently already been walking the walk

>"Burnham did not grant the US tech company any contracts during his nine years as Greater Manchester mayor, and is minded to take the same approach in Downing Street."

But how many did he deny?
I do agree blocking Palantir is a good move but the Spanish government is doing it for the wrong reason. Spain is storing all sort of data on Chinese servers, including their Intelligence, and Judicial wiretaps.

https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-huawei-contract-judici...

As opposed to what? American servers with Isreali backdoors?
How about Spanish servers?

I will never understand this helplessness that comes from these European countries. They are choosing to be dependent on foreign powers.

That is rather disturbing but this had me lol:

> Spain is “making a big mistake,” said Bart Groothuis [...] “Spain is now dependent on the country with the largest and most sophisticated offensive espionage program directed against us.”

I highly doubt he's naive enough to believe the "against us" qualifier exempts the operator of the largest and most sophisticated offensive espionage program ever.

espionage is a lot less bad than conquering by force.

the US properly fucked up by very publicly declaring intent to conquer greenland and canada

> I do agree blocking Palantir is a good move

Why? I'm not an expert and have only googled a bit, but I can't figure out what the specific objection to Palantir is.

I think in general people are a bit distrusting of a tech firm headed by billionaires with deep political ties that sells AI driven surveillance state technology to governments
Whom should we buy surveillance software from then? Vegan art society?

It's like saying we shouldn't buy guns from gun makers and tickle our enemies with rose petals instead.

Feels like Kremlin bots are having a field day here.

You caught me, I was too on the nose using the classic Russian disinformation tactic of saying mass surveillance is bad
> I can't figure out what the specific objection to Palantir is.

You have to be trolling, a single online search tells you how the company CEO is the textbook definition of technofascism. Take a look at his manifesto if you don’t know

did you hit up wikipedia? the controversies section would be a start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir#Controversies
This section is hilariously hostile towards Palantir.

"Wired wrote that some people think Palantir "maintains a giant, centralized database of information collected from all of its clients", which is untrue."

'some people' is a classic weasel word[0] used to prop up the writer's opinion. This sentence is even funnier because it initially appears to state that Palantir has a centralized DB of clients data, only to finish with "...which is untrue." It's as though I wrote "A YN user wrote that 'john_strinlai works for the CCP and uses ChatGPT to write all his posts', which is untrue."

I'll keep reading but rhetorical chicanery like this colours my interpretation of the article in general.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word

Well, you start with an obviously false claim, I did not continue reading.
>'Palantir "remains open to the critique of potentially being an accessory to acts of deportation, imprisonment, and racism through its contracts".' Open to critiques of potentially being an accessory to "racism?" What is this, the Future Crimes unit from Minority Report?

No. What that means is, "there's nothing here that prevents these tools from being used in this manner". It's not about what may happen in the future, it's about the current situation, which is that the tools are already produced with the objectionable capacity. It's the same reason speeding is punished, even when no harm follows as a consequence; the act is inherently reckless, regardless of the actual consequences.

Someone in ICE uses Microsoft Excel to maintain a list of people who they believe should be send to an internment camp. Therefore Microsoft is an accessory to that?

Where do you draw the line? Are we arguing there is a level of software capability that is simply too dangerous?

Maybe everyone should just stick to "I have my own biases, and I don't like Alex Karp's politics because they don't match my own. I'd rather this software was developed by someone from my side of politics - but still have the same capabilities".

If Microsoft sells ICE a subscription to Office then yes.
>Someone in ICE uses Microsoft Excel to maintain a list of people who they believe should be send to an internment camp. Therefore Microsoft is an accessory to that?

Utterly disingenuous. Surveillance software is primarily sold to governments to spy on individuals. It doesn't exist for any reason except for the powerful to oppress the weak.

>Where do you draw the line?

"I just kept turning the heat up and the frog seemed perfectly fine. The fact that it's cooked now can't have anything to do with my actions." I don't have to propose a generalized demarcation criterion to say whether a particular example is on either side of the line.

> This section is hilariously hostile towards Palantir.

Funny, one comment ago you had no idea what the controversy around Palantir was. How could you possibly know the wikipedia article is hostile? It might be downplaying the controversies around Palantir.

This reaction almost makes it seem like you were being completely disingenuous with your first post, and had already made up your mind about Palantir. Curious.

Here's an easy one:

Their CEO is a megalomaniac who brags about "killing people"[0] and can't string together coherent sentences on live television[1]. Did I mention it's backed by Peter Thiel who is openly and actively trying to tear down the world's oldest constitutional democracy in favor of a technocratic oligarchy[2]?

[0]: https://youtu.be/G5gC_fParbY?si=isXSwbgUsdsQyGFD

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A3sGymV6kY

[2]: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/porta...

its kinda funny that HN has swapped from being an owners and their immediate supplicants (founders) forum to a workers one
And you believe the State of Spain decided to blacklist Palentir for these reasons ? Because that was the original question of the person you are replying to.
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Can’t form a COMINTERN if the US is watching.
The Spanish public overwhelmingly trusts China over the US, so from their perspective, this is not necessarily a bad move.

Obviously, the best move would be to keep the data in Europe instead.

It makes no sense at all to trust either.
>Obviously, the best move would be to keep the data in Europe instead.

While 80% of Europe is subservient to the US?

Or just keep it in Spain? It's not exactly a developing nation. Can they simply not build a server and find people willing to take care of it?

Ghana can host their own IT infra. Why not Spain?

They deliver part of hardware but the data itself is hosted in Spain and operated by the interior ministry.
Right now you either give it to China or to the US.

China is not publicly threatening to invade the EU.

I think the EU needs to produce this themselves but right now they don’t and they don’t have any large, trustworthy allies.

so.. hand over your data to china to spite orange man. yes excellent move.
still not the worst of reasons.

would be better to be on spanish servers, but decoupling from american tech remains a public good, especially if using american tech bans american competitors

So? And other countries are storing their data in the US, not covered by gdpr
You are literally wrong, the data is stored in Spain on their servers and managed by their government. The risk as stated by EU and US is allowing Chineese nationals to *enter* the data storage facilities (direct quote from the article you shared).

Yes, it's still bad but they are not as stupid to just have their servers located in China for this.

Politicians and governments like to introduce crap like blacklisting when they have a good excuse to (a target the public agrees with) so that later it's easier for them to use against arbitrary targets.
This prevents palantir being used against people, what are you talking about? How will blacklisting military tech affect you?
I know I’m a conspiracy theorist but I’m looking out for random scandals, random high profile deaths, random infrastructure issues and random large scale accidents.
This seems ridiculously short-sighted and backwards.
Is your assumption that palantir is a good thing?
Sure Palantir has plenty of allegations. But giving same contract to China is insanity.
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yeah, well, this is what a socialist president gives you. same as mamdani and his achievements
Anything short of declaring them a proscribed organization is insufficient.
Unfortunately this order will probably be revoked in 2027/2028, we'll see.
It is possible and this in particular is a decision that I'm sure the US will pressure the government to reverse. However, it's misguided to see the entire world through the US political lens where reversing policy decisions is seen as a free win by the voting base. Spain's current democracy is only about fifty years old and extremism is viewed very negatively so outright undoing is generally less common then gradual undermining.
Look, this is not a bad thing per se, but the US reaction will tell you everything you need to know.
why not simply make it illegal? why make it a ban specific to one company, are they trying to make their own copy?
They didn't ban any company, they just ordered public services and public companies not to use what has been classified as a security risk.

Anybody here think that Palantir is not a security risk for Spain?

> Anybody here think that Palantir is not a security risk for Spain?

why is THAT your take and not "WTF WHY ARE THOSE CAMERAS LEGAL IN GENERAL?"

they could be attached to non-US-owned-tiktok which is clearly the biggest security threat to have ever existed
jesus fuck, biggest security threat is that IT SPIES ON ALL CITIZENS

it doesn't matter where the data go - THE VERY COLLECTION OF IT IS BAD

Palantir is profoundly untrusted in Europe in part because of Alex Karp. He is viewed as a dangerous neo-nationalist (not incorrectly).

Never really sure why Anduril doesn't catch the same grief; they are maybe even creepier. Perhaps Palmer Luckey is just a less visible obvious Bond villain crackpot.

There are European alternatives to Anduril. But there are no European alternatives to Palantir, that's why.
What is creepy about Anduril? Anduril simply sells weapons. There's nothing mysterious or nefarious about it. European countries want to buy weapons too.
I find it unbelievable that the current chief of Nato (Rutte) is basically an extension of Palantir. He is making sure countries are signing contracts with this extreme company that on pair with the Nazi ideology. They would support mass extermination camps. You probably think this is over exaggerated. But no its not. This company is evil.
Pretty sure he would do unspeakable things if it meant getting a pat on the head, and a Good Boy, from the real head of nato.
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Yes palantir is fascist organization. They did not done the murders only because they dont have power yet. That is claim of CEO, I am just listening to what he says and writes.

Jews complained about nazi long before holocaust, btw. So did opposition.

One of the things we need to learn from the Nazis is the banality of evil. They were not some unique video game bad guys. They were ordinary people doing mostly ordinary things that added up to an atrocity. Mostly they just had some bad opinions. The individual concentration camp guard had a vague bad feeling about the project but apart from that they felt the same as a security guard at a prison feels today.

And the Nazis were already around for 10 years before the holocaust began. And for all that time they were still the Nazis, but nobody considered them that badly, because they just seemed like a political party with some bad opinions. And we should think about that. Was it possible to stop them in the first 10 years of existence, before they did the holocaust, thereby preventing the holocaust?

"The decision stems directly from growing official concern over the potential misuse of classified information linked to national security."

What are the specific concerns?

As the contracts are going to a chinese company. The officials making the decisions likely like their bribes wery much.
Someday, the US will be just a bubble where no other country gives their data to. We continue this decent into fascism to the point that nobody likes us.. or values us. Is this their idea of Utopia?
Unfortunately, yes. The American right has looked at Russia as a model for what they want America to be for some time.
Its what the US wants, and honestly at this point we should just completely cordon off the US from the rest of the world and give it to them.
Why don't you stop using American sites and services now then? I see comments like this a lot but no one wants to be personally inconvenienced to stop using hn/youtube/reddit/whatever.
>Why don't you stop using American sites and services now then?

So it is what you want.

It's what heritage foundation, elon and all the other billionaires want. This is not what most americans wanted, is it? How much of the population voted for orange man?
They seem to have been granting contracts to manage all kinds of critical data to Huawei's Palantir equivalent lately, so it's probably less about security risks and more about the current source of the bribe money.

If they cared about security they would not outsource this kind of stuff to foreign companies. Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it?

>Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it?

The data may be safer with the CCP, at least they won't lose it.

Right up until some kid named "Bobby Tiananmen" makes the whole database delete itself ;)
> Spain is not Somalia, why not let Indra do it?

foreigners are a bit more likely to be loyal to the government and not some separatist opposition? or at least the companies corruption will be quite separate from what impacts the local government

this also came up with the 6th gen fighter designs between france and germany. it works when theres a non-european driving, because both trust the non-europe option more than any fellow european. the local lords are too powerful to be trusted, and too competitive against eachother

>foreigners are a bit more likely to be loyal to the government

Yes, to their own government! Both China and USA have laws to force companies to insert backdoors. These laws have been enforced numerous times. If you think this is a smaller risk than doing things nationally, then indeed you're basically arguing that Spain is Somalia, there are separatist forces roaming around, the country can't enforce its own laws and the government needs to sell everything to foreign governments to stay in power. This is not the case (for now).

> The firm holds a €16.5 million contract signed in 2023 with the Armed Forces Intelligence Center (CIFAS), which is scheduled to expire this upcoming November.

> Military leadership, including the Chiefs of Staff of the Army and Navy, has lobbied Defense Minister Margarita Robles to renew the contract, citing the platform's operational superiority.

Palantir wins contracts because they are better at what they do. If Europe wants to maintain digital sovereignty while not being left behind they need to have a heart-to-heart conversation about how to fix that.

clearly not better if they cant win a spanish contract?
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They won the contract, the military wants to keep it, the politicians are threatening to blanket kill all palantir contracts.

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The world's a scary place, but that's no excuse to make it worse.
Alex Karp is clearly off his rocker. This is a good move.
He cannot stop talking about murdering people.
I mean.. just take a minute and listen to the CEO. The guy is having a hard time time. Clearly out of touch imo.

https://youtu.be/0A3sGymV6kY

Interview is gold, he is right.
yeah, he seems to have the same issue a lot of these guys have. i’m convinced we’re going to find out at some point they’re all on some kind of modern meth type drug that entirely breaks their reality. the similarities between so many of their shifts are too striking.
> i’m convinced we’re going to find out at some point they’re all on some kind of modern meth type drug that entirely breaks their reality

It's called being out-of-touch obscenely wealthy coupled with a massive ego.

With some experimental peptides sprinkled in.
You are probably thinking about ketamine.
The Spanish government trusting the CCP over Palantir is wild.

The CCP's intolerant, cruel and authoritarian nature is a direct threat to humanity in ways that Peter Thiel could barely imagine in his darkest dreams.

The lack of perspective on show here is astonishing. They are destroying trust with vital Western allies -- trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets -- and Lurch and his dodgy friends are clearly out of their element.

I take the ccp over thiel any day
> is a direct threat to humanity in ways that Peter Thiel could barely imagine

Care to outline a few of those threats? The ones that Thiel allegedly cannot imagine?

I'm American, I get why Spain's feeling trepidation. I can't trust my own government with data if it could be used against me. I actively seek out Chinese translation, AI and search engines when I want privacy from the US. It's safer with the CCP than the geriatric nutjobs that fell off the Overton window.

I thinking OP is worried about China exporting its political influence outside.

In China, the Ministry for State Security has the legal authority to seize and investigate your devices without warrant nor active case, for instance. This can be, legally, motivated by dissident political thought.

please, compared to thiel & co., the ccp are basically choir boys. and they worked well for china. they cleaned their cities of unbreathable air and reduced poverty in a very short time span. we cannot say the same for the americans robber barons and their political wing, like trump&co. how can you deny the most basic reality and evidence?
The people who raised concerns about the awful things the Chinese Communist Party has done in the process are unfortunately unavailable for comment.
You are mixing apples and oranges. The infamous Huawei deal was buying tons of HDD servers. Any deal with Palantir is handling all your data to the NSA.
The NSA have Congressional oversight and are held accountable for their (mis)deeds, more or less.

The Chinese MSS and the Chinese Communist Party itself aren't even accountable to God.

Congressional oversight doesn't mean much here, since the CCP also serves that role.

The real problem is that, even though US is, in practice, a de-facto two-party between democrats and republicans, the PRC is a de-facto one-party system. There's also the overall opportunities for change and revolution that US society provides, that are absent in the PRC.

Because the NSA has such a great record of getting punished from their transgressions, right?

For foreign countries, handling your data to either the Chinese surveillance apparatus or the USA one makes no difference. In fact, any company with such deep ties with a foreign intelligence agency as Palantir should be automatically considered a security thread in other nations.

Anyway, the deal with Huawei was about buying hardware, not handling over data.

Get rid of this pestilence! Fark Palantir