2025 revealed how data center outages, from fires and mechanical failures to hyperscale cloud region events, can cascade ...

An Illinois-based data center that supports the CME reportedly installed backup cooling systems after a significant outage caused a major disruption in the global market. This announcement drew ...

When a data center cooling issue halted futures and options trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, it focused attention on the hidden infrastructure that’s becoming ever more critical to daily ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With the explosive growth of Big Tech's data centers threatening to overload U.S. electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. An outage that took down markets operated by CME Group Inc ...

This past summer, a fire at an electrical substation forced data centers in Loudoun County to rely on backup diesel generators as their power source. Grid failures like this happen often, but this ...

Applied Digital a company that develops and operates high-power data center infrastructure for AI and advanced computing ...

According to Pablo Vegas, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, residents don't need to be alarmed: A new state law requires data centers to disconnect in phases at the grid operator’s ...