In 2012, 670 million people in India lost power for the second time in two days.
The worst power crisis in human history occurred on July 30 and 31, 2012, when there were two significant power outages in India. One-tenth of the world's population, or approximately 350 million people, were impacted by the second of the two outages, which affected 670 million people in total across 21 of India's 28 states.
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