Third world countries can't handle a/c...

I hope the entire country has a blackout and everyone gets heat stroke

Relatively small outage, compared to, say, [Sumatra, last month](https://archive.is/hjuPz). The heat is real tho.

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 has caused a major power outage in France, as several countries issue red alerts across large swaths of their territory.

A heat-related incident left around 68,000 homes without electricity in western France, according to the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere.

The outage, which started on Tuesday evening and was related to a transformer in the town of Ergué-Gabéric, was not expected to be fully restored until the end of Wednesday at the earliest.

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[https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/france-power-outage-europe-heat-wave.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/france-power-outage-europe-heat-wave.html)

> A [record-breaking European heat wave](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/23/extreme-heat-wave-europe-weather-climate.html) has caused a major power outage in France, as several countries issue red alerts across large swaths of their territory.

> A heat-related incident left around 68,000 homes without electricity in western France, according to the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere.

> The outage, which started on Tuesday evening and was related to a transformer in the town of Ergué-Gabéric, was not expected to be fully restored until the end of Wednesday at the earliest.