Batam

Blackouts are making headlines in several places at once. Ukraine is suffering widespread power cuts after Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, with DTEK publishing outage schedules and Kyiv's water utility warning that losing electricity also means losing water supply. In the United States, parts of San Francisco were hit by a midday outage, and Hurricane Isaias left thousands without power and at least four people dead along the Gulf Coast. Indonesia is also asking what caused a blackout in Batam.

Residents of Batam, Indonesia have blockaded a data center, accusing the facility of draining local water supplies needed by the community. The protest highlights growing local backlash against data center operations in the region, where water-intensive cooling systems are increasingly seen as competing with residents' access to water.