Cuba's electrical grid collapses in nationwide blackout

29 petethomas 7 9/10/2025, 2:42:31 PM reuters.com ↗

Comments (7)

dbelson · 6h ago
Doesn't appear to be a complete power failure, as Cloudflare Radar shows only a partial drop in traffic from Cuba: https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/cu?dateRange=1d
lkbm · 4h ago
If you've got generators for towers and people use their mobile phones, I'd expect traffic to continue. 37% is a little higher than I'd expect, but I don't know the make-up of traffic.
ratg13 · 2h ago
Rolling power outages are the norm in Cuba. I would say that number is about right.
riidom · 5h ago
about blackouts and other problems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJwe0s5N-g8

(youtuber travels and talks to people, 20min)

should work with auto-translated subtitles

toughquestion · 5h ago
"Communist Cuba's national power grid collapsed for the fourth time in less than a year on Wednesday morning causing a nationwide blackout, authorities said."

Just awful.

AngryData · 5h ago
This reads like propaganda because they very clearly are not in a total blackout.
aegypti · 5h ago
"There has been a total disconnection of the Electric System," the (Cuban state) Energy Ministry and National Electric Union said.

The (Cuban) grid operator said the grid collapsed at 9.14 a.m. (1314 GMT) on the Caribbean island.

???