Spain

Spain is directing its state-controlled companies — Telefónica, Indra, Navantia and firms under the SEPI holding — to drop the US data-analytics firm Palantir, citing the risk of misuse of classified national-security information.

The thread refused the clean sovereignty story. One reading: Palantir is being pushed out precisely because it is better, and Europe is dodging an uncomfortable capability gap. Another: the concern was never security but who is paying — so why not just let Spain's own Indra do the work?

The figure compares actual solar output against what the fuel to replace it would have cost — about $135M a day over roughly 100 days.

The correction: that's avoided imports, not net savings. It excludes the hundreds of billions in panels and the grid costs of intermittency.

And a neat aside on why solar-heavy Germany still pays a lot: marginal pricing means the most expensive plant still running sets the price.