DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Security & Risk, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Nigeria's Danfodiyo University data center damaged in storm
Equipment damaged and network services disrupted
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims fresh hit on AWS data center in Bahrain
Says strikes were in response to alleged US attack on nuclear power plant in Darkhuin
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Google Cloud experiences outage after power and cooling failure in Netherlands data center
Issues lasted for almost 15 hours
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Fire at Meta data center construction site in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin
Fire Department dispatched at 5:37pm, July 19
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Extinction Rebellion pelt Microsoft data center site with acid-filled balloons
Targets under-construction data center near Sloterdijk Station in Amsterdam
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Ukraine's military strikes Dubna satellite comms center in Russia
Just one week after previous strikes
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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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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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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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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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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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Iran attack hits an Oracle data center in Dubai, causes limited damage
Dubai Media Office initially calls claims "fake news," later confirms shrapnel impact
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Fire at AWS data center in Bahrain after Iranian attack - report
AWS yet to confirm
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Iran makes further threats against Big Tech in the Middle East
Says it is in response to US attempts to kill Iranian leadership
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HostDime suffers downtime at UK data center due to contractual dispute with colocation provider
Brings down HostDime customer workloads as well
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Microsoft suffered "power interruption" at West US cloud region in February
Details problem in incident report, with full outage avoided
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TikTok experiences issues at US data center, but avoids full outage
After major power outage earlier this year
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Cloudflare experiences latency issues at New Jersey data center
DownDector suggests X and AWS also experiencing issues, though AWS refutes this
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TikTok says outage is resolved, confirms it was an Oracle data center
Issues were caused by the harsh winter storm
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TikTok suffers data center outage in US
First weekend after official launch of new owner
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Major IT outage hits Kent and Medway doctors' surgeries in UK
Several practices facing disruption
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Insurance companies FM and Aon increase coverage capacity for data centers
While MGU establishes AI insurance facility
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BCS East subsea cable connecting Latvia and Lithuania damaged
Repairs underway
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Damaged communications tower in Los Angeles brings down parking enforcement radios
Suspected to be caused by copper theft
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Cooling issue at data center halts futures trading for CME Group
Issue was in a CyrusOne data center
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OVHcloud experiences outage in Gravelines, France, data center region
Issues lasted for six hours