Angry residents of Indonesia’s Batam island staged spontaneous protests in October 2026, outside a park where a new cluster of data centres is under construction. Taps at home had run dry for the residents for months, which they blamed on severe outages that hit the municipal water service after the arrival of the data centres.

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Batam? Gonna check if that's a singapore company that benefits singapore more.

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    begun the water wars have

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    Is not this publication a mouthpiece of the fascist regime of China? (It is.)

    That's great they are siding against these data centers, but don't trust it, don't trust them, they just don't want any competition in ruling communications.

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