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We investigate the implications of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations measurement released by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for Interacting Dark Energy (IDE) models characterized by an energy-momentum flow from Dark Matter to Dark Energy. By combining Planck-2018 and DESI data, we observe a preference for interactions, leading to a non-vanishing interaction rate $\xi=-0.32^{+0.18}_{-0.14}$, which results in a present-day expansion rate $H_0=70.8^{+1.4}_{-1.7}$ km/s/Mpc, reducing the tension with the value provided by the SH0ES collaboration to less than $\sim 1.3 \sigma$. The preference for interactions remains robust when including measurements of the expansion rate $H(z)$ obtained from the relative ages of massive, early-time, and passively-evolving galaxies, as well as when considering distance moduli measurements from Type-Ia Supernovae sourced from the Pantheon-plus catalog using the SH0ES Cepheid host distances as calibrators. Overall, the IDE framework provides an equally good, or better, explanation of both high- and low-redshift background observations compared to $\Lambda$CDM, while also yielding higher $H_0$ values that align more closely with the local distance ladder estimates. However, a limitation of the IDE model is that it predicts lower $\Omega_{m}$ and higher $\sigma_{8}$ values, which may not be fully consistent with large-scale structure data at the perturbation level.
Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables (including supplementary material). Version accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters