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'Extraordinary' Blackout Shuts Down Spain, Portugal

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A blackout brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill Monday, halting subway trains, cutting phone service, and shutting down traffic lights and ATM machines for the 50 million people who live across the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish power distributor Red Eléctrica said restoring power to large parts of the country and neighboring Portugal will take hours, reports the AP. The company declined to speculate on the causes of the huge blackout. The Portuguese National Cybersecurity Center issued a statement saying there was no sign the outage was due to a cyberattack. Eduardo Prieto, head of operations at Red Eléctrica, told journalists it was unprecedented, calling the event "exceptional and extraordinary."
 

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Some people got stuck in elevators, that is probably the most unpleasant situation.

The Portuguese company REN, which manages the distribution network in Portugal, said that the outage was caused by an extreme temperature fluctuation in Spain that damaged the functionality of the very high voltage line.
 
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This put the London Heathrow power outage just over a month ago into perspective.

It also shows how dependent developed countries are on infrastructure such as electricity, the internet and mobile phones.

Longer ago a major power cut was an inconvenience. Now almost everything stops.

Communications are no longer just for communications but are needed for basic business (or home) operations due to so much stuff being cloud based.
 
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