TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taipei’s Neihu Technology Park suffered a power outage at 11:18 a.m. Tuesday (June 18), with emergency repairs leading to power being restored approximately one hour later at 12:26 p.m.

Economics Minister Kuo Jyh-huei (郭智輝) responded to news of the power disruption, noting the incident was not due to a lack of power but instead associated with mechanical equipment failure. Kuo pledged to strengthen maintenance to prevent similar outages from occurring, per PTS.

"We have found that power outages occur in areas that are densely populated or have seen a sudden spike in people. The problem in many of these cases is that the equipment is relatively old," said Kuo.

Kuo explained that an electrical feeder line tripped, affecting power to the Neihu Technology Park and causing a power outage to 655 households located on Jiangnan Street, Yangguang Street, Ruiguang Street, Ruihu Street, and other areas. Kuo said Taipower rushed to make emergency repairs, with more than 50% of the power restored in just three minutes.

According to an office worker at Neihu Technology Park, "it stopped instantly. It's not like we had any advance warning of a power outage. Our instruments and equipment cannot operate without power, so some experiments needed to wait for the power to return as we had to run the experiments again.”

Another office worker at Neihu Technology Park expressed similar frustration: "It's impossible to work like this. We went out to buy lunch, and the power was still not restored when we came back. We relied upon our company's emergency power system, which came on after about 5 to 10 seconds, but it's not electricity from Taipower."

Neihu Technology Park is one of the major IT centers in Taiwan, with many companies having their R&D and technical service centers here, including Nvidia.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) recently spoke of expanding the company’s investment in Taiwan, but he was worried that AI supercomputers require lots of power. Soon after making these comments, Neihu Technology Park experienced a power outage, drawing more scrutiny of the nation’s power grid.

Kuo reiterated the power outage at Neihu Technology Park was not due to insufficient power but most likely due to an underground cable connector. Kuo has pledged more maintenance and routine inspections though electrical equipment remains influenced by factors such as weather and obsolescence.