News - Security & Risk
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First Street: 79 percent of global data center capacity facing "acute climate hazards"
86 percent of data centers in the Americas facing these "acute" risks
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Fire at STT GDC/Tata data center in India caused "extensive damage" - report
Google and others impacted by apparent lithium battery fire
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Utrecht University to file claim against KPN after NorthC data center fire
University systems were down for a week after fire
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Thieves steal eight batteries from cell towers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Thefts took place across two different tower sites 24 hours apart
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Colo provider MIRhosting sees equipment disconnected at Netherlands data center
Comes one week after 800 serves seized from customer of MIRhosting
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Syria provides Internet through alternative routes after ‘sabotage’ of subsea cable
The disruption didn’t affect services in Egypt
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Vodafone Australia restores network following major outage
Blames the downtime on a power outage at one of its network hubs
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US government may allow FDCEA to expire - report
Anonymous sources suggest there is no plan for an extension or alternative
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University of Hamburg plans computer center renovation
Facility experienced structural damage earlier this year
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Anthropic disables latest AI model after US order limits foreign access
Amazon's CEO warned the government about the model
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Google Cloud suffers network disruptions after fire at third-party data center in India
Fire saw emergency power shutdown at the facility
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DCD>Magazine #61 out now: Life and death on a tower
The engineers risking it all to keep us connected
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Microsoft wraps up investigation into Israeli military's use of its cloud platform
Posits some steps to improve effectiveness of its human rights governance
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Supermicro says it is working with Taiwanese authorities to stop illegal shipments of its servers to China
Collaboration resulted in the seizure of 50 servers, company claims
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Police seize £1.2m worth of equipment during raid of data center in Farnborough, UK
Facility was being used for illegal streaming
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Small number of workers exposed to fluorine gas leak at SK Hynix Cheongju campus – report
Fire also broke out at the site, but incident is now under control
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Dutch police arrest pair accused of violating Russia sanctions, raids two data centers
The two men allegedly provided hosting services for Russian cybercriminals
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Half of planned US data centers “highly exposed” to natural disaster, $800bn in investments at risk - report
Severe convective storms, hurricanes, winterstorms, and earthquakes
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Openreach steps up battle against copper theft in UK
Has paired with EMR and Crimestoppers to urge the UK public to report any suspicious activity
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Google unexpectedly suspends Railway.com's cloud account
Issues since resolved
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AWS experiences power issues at Northern Virginia cloud region, causing limited outage
Caused by thermal event
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NorthC data center outside Amsterdam suffers fire
Firefighters still fighting blaze
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Pure DC not pausing Middle East investment, contrary to reports, despite drone debris near miss
The operator said it remained committed to the market, which was a key strategic pillar