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Residents on Indonesia’s Batam island are protesting as water shortages make cooking and bathing difficult, with anger focused on new data centers. A local utility attributed the shortages to low rainfall and drought; the supplied reports do not establish that data centers caused them.
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The dispute highlights pressure on local water supplies as data-center development expands in Southeast Asia. U.S. technology companies and users could be indirectly affected if resource constraints complicate regional infrastructure growth, but the articles identify no specific U.S. company or impact.