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People walk next to the parliament building as lights are turned off at Budapest landmarks to reduce energy due to a power crisis in Budapest, Hungary, August 5, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo The cityscape of Budapest, as lights turned off at landmarks to reduce energy due to a power crisis in Budapest, Hungary, August 5, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo FILE PHOTO: Firefighters work on a burning area near Loumpa, as wildfires hit West Attica, Greece, August 3, 2026. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki/ File Photo A drone view of the foundations of the ancient Constantine Bridge, commissioned by Roman emperor Constantine I and inaugurated in A.D. 328, is seen in the Danube River near Gigen, Bulgaria, in this handout image released on August 6, 2026. Pavel Popov/Pleven Regional History Museum/Handout via REUTERS A drone view of the foundations of the ancient Constantine Bridge, commissioned by Roman emperor Constantine I and inaugurated in A.D. 328, is seen in the Danube River near Gigen, Bulgaria, in this handout image released on August 6, 2026. Pavel Popov/Pleven Regional History Museum/Handout via REUTERS A drone view of the foundations of the ancient Constantine Bridge, commissioned by Roman emperor Constantine I and inaugurated in A.D. 328, is seen in the Danube River near Gigen, Bulgaria, in this handout image released on August 6, 2026. Martin Milev/Pleven Regional History Museum/Handout via REUTERS A drone view of the foundations of the ancient Constantine Bridge, commissioned by Roman emperor Constantine I and inaugurated in A.D. 328, is seen in the Danube River near Gigen, Bulgaria, in this handout image released on August 6, 2026. Pavel Popov/Pleven Regional History Museum/Handout via REUTERS Trucks at the construction site of the Google-Adani data centre in Tarluvada, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, August 3, 2026. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh Farmers work in a field near the construction site of the Google-Adani data centre project in Tarluvada, in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, August 3, 2026. REUTERS/PriyaNshu Singh The Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary, as seen from the construction site of the Google-Adani data centre in Tarluvada, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, August 3, 2026. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh The Mudasarlova Reservoir near the Google-Adani data centre construction site in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, August 3, 2026. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh Raja Rama Mohan Roy, founder of the non-profit Green Visakha, gives a presentation on Green Visakha's concerns about the proposed hyperscale AI data centres in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, August 2, 2026. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh A truck at the construction site of the Google-Adani data centre in Tarluvada, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, August 3, 2026. REUTERS/Priyanshu Singh Hwang Han-jae, a public servant from the Safety and Administration Office of Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Government, flies a drone equipped with loudspeakers and thermal imaging camera over a chilli pepper field during a heat wave warning in Andong, South Korea, August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji Hwang Han-jae, a public servant from the Safety and Administration Office of Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Government, flies a drone equipped with loudspeakers and thermal imaging camera over a chilli pepper field during a heat wave warning in Andong, South Korea, August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji A drone view shows workers picking chilli peppers under a shade parasol during a heat wave warning in Andong, South Korea, August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji Hwang Han-jae, a public servant from the Safety and Administration Office of Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Government, checks the temperature of a plastic greenhouse through a drone equipped with loudspeakers and thermal imaging camera over a chilli pepper field during a heat wave warning in Andong, South Korea, August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji A drone view of a drone equipped with loudspeakers and thermal imaging camera flying over a chilli pepper field to check the temperature during a heat wave warning in Andong, South Korea, August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji Hwang Han-jae, a public servant from the Safety and Administration Office of Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Government, turns on a drone equipped with loudspeakers and thermal imaging camera during a heat wave warning in Andong, South Korea, August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji FILE PHOTO: The logo of Zurich Insurance is seen at its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo Visitors walk through a cooling mist system at Gwangmyeong Cave during a record-breaking heatwave in Gwangmyeong, South Korea, August 5, 2026, after Yangsan recorded the highest temperature in the country in 122 years of weather observations on Sunday. REUTERS/Kim Soo-hyeon A vendor cools off with a plastic bottle filled with frozen water during a heatwave, as temperatures are forecast to reach 39 degrees Celsius, at a traditional market in Seoul, South Korea, August 6, 2026. Yonhap/via REUTERS Lights turned off at Budapest landmarks to reduce energy due to power crisis in Budapest 1 of 27 People walk next to the parliament building as lights are turned off at Budapest landmarks to reduce energy due to a power crisis in Budapest, Hungary, August 5, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo By Crispian Balmer and Krisztina Than