What causes power cuts?

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WHAT CAUSES POWER CUTS?

A series of unfortunate events can plunge our homes into total darkne

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How It Works Magazine

14 August, 2025

Homebuilding & Renovating

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PART 12

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How did amazon’s bug cause the internet to collapse?

Monday 20 October was all set to be another busy day online, with trillions of clicks, searches and transactions. But a problem was developing in one of Amazon’s huge US data centres in northern Virgi

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‘people wanted to feel empowered’

As renewable energy overtakes coal for the first time, a street in East London is taking itself off the grid this winter by installing solar panels. And residents hope to inspire other neighbourhoods

BBC Countryfile Magazine

Infrastructure gaps put rural residents at a major disadvantage

From the isolated village where I live you can catch a minibus to the nearest supermarket, seven miles away. On the return journey it will drop you and your shopping off right outside your front door.

The Week UK

Extremely offline: what happened when tonga lost the internet

In January 2022, a volcanic eruption ripped apart the underwater cables that connect the Pacific island of Tonga to the world. At a stroke, the country was plunged into the kind of isolation it hadn’t experienced in more than a century.

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