An unprecedented event happened on Monday, April 28. Several regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Europesuch as Spain, Portugal, Andorra, parts of France, and even areas of Belgium, They were dark. An energy failure that caused a mass blackout and reminds us of Elon Musk’s predictions, will it be right?
Does an energy crisis ahead? This was what happened in Europe
It is not common for electricity to fail in Europe, today we depend completely on electricity to do our daily work, so a blackout is chaotic. This was what happened in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, parts of France, and even areas of Belgium.
A sudden energy failure paralyzed these countries, creating uncertainty between the population and a total chaos. From the 12:30 Spanish time, a fall in consumption was recorded in the Electricity Network (REE). The consequences were traffic lights off, detainees and closed shops.
There were several hours of panic in large cities for the suspension of activities. Well, do not have the energy supply paralyzes any type of activity, even emergencies. This situation remembers what happened weeks ago in Mexico, where these 4 states were dark.
Although after a few hours the emergency protocols were activated and the energy of the system began to gradually returned, they were moments of world uncertainty. What us Remember a prediction that Musk did some time agoWill we run out of energy around the world?
What caused the blackout in Europe? These are some of the possible causes
According to the national Cryptological Center (CCN), they commented that there are indications for Consider that the blackout could have been caused by a cyber attack. However, it is not a proven fact, as they continue to investigate the incident.
For his part, Pedro Sánchez convened the National Security Council to analyze the situation, reinforcing the cyber attack as a national security issue. In a statement to the media, the president appealed to the Patience and civism, while investigations continue.
Similarly, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, expressed her support for Spain and Portugal before the crisis, ensuring that Brussels will coordinate the necessary efforts to completely recover the electricity supply.
Elon Musk had made predictions about a global failure in energy
We are immersed in technology and if this failure through energy, our entire system collapses next to it. This event remembered a warning that Musk said recently. He noted that More worrying drought would not be water, but electricity.
With the growth of artificial intelligence we are in the process of automating almost all processes, but we are also on our way to an lack of control in electricity consumption. IA systems require greater consumption and capacity, that current infrastructure are not able to support.
He Consumption of artificial intelligence is multiplied by up to 10 times every six monthswhich means a growing exponential increase. To what extent can our current infrastructure bear it? Are we prepared if there is a worldwide crisis in energy?
It was Europe, recently Mexico, the big doubt is whether more countries will join this inconvenience to spend hours in the dark. If you do not invest in clean, renewable and sustainable energies in each nationthe energy crisis can be a persistent problem in the near future.
What makes us clear this World concern for the European blackout It is that, the world energy infrastructure requires a change, either to avoid external threats in attacks, or to withstand the current technological load, we need sustainable and renewable sources to improve the systems, or we could immerse ourselves in a new crisis and global shortage.
