Dataport suffers networking outage at Germany data center
Brings down regional tax offices' operations
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The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Trump administration to overhaul “overly complex, overly bureaucratic” AI Diffusion rule
Biden-era regulation sought to limit access to advanced AI chips and AI model weights
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Computacenter employee let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank's server room, says ex-manager
Manager then fired for reporting the incident, now suing companies
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Cable theft blamed for causing rail chaos in Spain
Vital signaling cable was stolen by vandals
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University of Manchester's neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker brought down by cooling failure
SpiNNaker overheated during the Easter weekend, forcing Uni to shut down system
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Three arrests in £3m fraud probe involving Microsoft data center in the Netherlands
UK authorities launch raids of six properties
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Microsoft to increase European data center capacity by 40 percent, pledges to protect local customers over US threats
Brad Smith pens plea to European community after Trump hostility
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Spanish telcos turn to backup generators to prop up networks amid nationwide power cuts
Vodafone says its operating at 70 percent capacity currently
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Ukrainian cloud provider De Novo experiences power outage
Brings down online banking services
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Spain and Portugal hit by massive power outage
Impact to data center sector unknown
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LAPD recovers stolen Bitcoin miners worth $2.7m from LAX
Stolen servers were headed for Hong Kong
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Zero government-directed Internet shutdowns in Q1 2025 - Cloudflare
Third time ever in Cloudflare's report history
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Two people hospitalized after fire at AWS data center construction site in New Carlisle, Indiana
Smoke filled a building at site of $11bn project
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Aging NHS network infrastructure puts clinical systems at risk in UK
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust needs to update its networking technology
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Huawei unveils Ascend 920 AI chip, will start shipping 910C to Chinese customers from May – report
Chip launch follows additional US export restrictions on Nvidia H20 GPUs to China
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US gov’t imposes restrictions on Nvidia H20s, chipmaker claims will cost it $5.5bn
Follows Nvidia's announcement it plans to produce AI supercomputers in the US
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UPS issue caused Google Cloud's March outage
Impacted Google Cloud's US-East5 region
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Man sentenced to 47 years for South African cell tower battery theft
The thefts took place between 2018 and 2019
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Network issue at AWS data center brings down crypto exchanges
Binance and KuCoin among those impacted
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Trump: Chips tariffs still coming, Chinese electronics still taxed but in a “different Tariff ‘bucket’”
President says there will be some flexibility with semiconductor tariffs
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US gov’t decides not to further restrict Nvidia H20 exports to China, follows Jensen Huang’s visit to Mar-a-Lago
Additional controls were due to come into force this week
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Tower topplers plead guilty to sabotaging 500ft Oklahoma tower
The incident occurred last year
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Cell tower worker falls to death in New Brunswick, Canada
The incident happened on April 7
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Major gas leak at QTS data center near Manassas, Virginia
Prince William County Fire and Rescue dispatched to scene
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Micron to impose tariff surcharge on memory modules and SSDs
Company had previously disclosed plans to pass on tariff-related costs to customers
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Yandex data center experienced major outage caused by support substation
First time facility seen an outage of this scale in its 15-year history
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Verizon cell tower worker accidentally shot by Air Force personnel in Wyoming
Injuries were not life threatening
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Equinix’s SP4 data center in São Paulo suffers fire over weekend
Fire started in cage of local dark fiber provider, cause not confirmed