No water to cook or bathe: Indonesians protest data centre boom as Malaysia expands its own
BATAM: Cooking and bathing became difficult when taps ran dry in Batam, an Indonesian island where residents are protesting as data centres spring up to power the global artificial intelligence boom.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Batam protests over water shortages linked to data centre growth, with no conflicting facts.
32m agoAlso reported by straitstimes.com (found in GDELT's list of news articles)
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