Weather & Science
Silicon Valley Hit With Widespread Power Outages After Storm
Storm clouds over San Francisco on March 14.
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Large swaths of California’s tech hub Silicon Valley remained without electricity after the latest atmospheric river brought heavy rain and high winds that toppled power lines.
Almost one-third of the homes and businesses in Santa Clara County — home to tech giants including Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google — were without power as of Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. More than 180,000 customers in the San Francisco Bay Area were blacked out as of 10 a.m. local time.