Indonesia Swaps Out Electricity Chief After Huge Batam Blackout
THE SO WHAT
A 16-hour blackout in Batam costing the grid CEO his job is a reminder that data center and tourism hubs live or die on power resilience. If you’re siting AI or cloud infrastructure in emerging markets, treat grid reliability and political accountability as first-class risks, not footnotes in the site-selection memo.
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