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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Spain and Portugal power outage: what caused it, and was there a cyber-attack?

Spain, Portugal and some of south-west France suffered a massive power cut on Monday, with major cities including Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon among those affected.

Houses, offices, trains, traffic lights and even the Madrid Open tennis tournament were all hit, causing chaos for millions of people and prompting a scramble by the Spanish and Portuguese governments and network operators to understand the problem and race to fix it.

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