What does the power supply break are to be concluded? / Day

This week will be the month since April 28, when at 12:33 pm, the computer system was switched off the power system for five seconds, affecting 60% of the total amount of electricity consumed in Spain. This led to mass fuses shut down in most Portugal, as well as in Andorra and southern France.

Most of the Spanish and Portuguese had no electricity around the clock, traffic lights were not working, the trains and subway movements stopped, mobile phones were not working and ATMs did not function. Electronic payment systems were not working in the Portuguese capital Lisbon and elsewhere. Madrid and Lisbon airports also felt the influence.

Latvian social media LTV said that mass -free computer system locks were caused by « rare air temperature fluctuations ». At the same time, there were concerns about a cyber attack in Spain. Later, in mid -May, LETA reported, however, that the Spanish government excludes a cyber attack as a possible cause of a large -scale power supply rupture.

What has happened confirms that encouragement in Latvia and elsewhere in the European Union (EU) to give up cash at all is ill -considered. « Low air temperature fluctuations », and anything in the store can only be bought for cash. Also, suggestions to entrust the entire state functioning system only to computer systems and remote control in fact, countries are driven to total chaos as soon as similar « temperature fluctuations » occur. What happened on the Pyrenees Peninsula showed how truth of unstable and unsafe in times of crisis (for example, in the event of an opponent’s attack) is to rely solely on computerized management. In principle, it can be said that the people of Spain and Portugal were forced to use their own intelligence one day, because artificial intelligence – in the broadest sense of the concept – was not available.