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Potential Customer Impact

Data Center Operator CyrusOne Hit by $13 Million Extortion Demand

27. August, 2026 - 05:22

The extortion group ShinyHunters claims to have breached U.S. data center operator CyrusOne and is demanding $13 million.

Nvidia Pours Billions Into Safe Superintelligence

Why the AI Race Will Be Won in the Data Center

24. August, 2026 - 05:09

It won’t be the next language model that decides the future of artificial intelligence — it will be access to compute. That is exactly where the new strategic partnership between Nvidia and Safe Superintelligence (SSI) comes in.

The Data Center Reality

The Problem Behind Europe’s AI Gigafactories

22. August, 2026 - 05:05

Why Europe’s multibillion-euro AI gigafactories could take years longer to materialize despite ample funding and sustained demand.

Modern Data Center Infrastructure

What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)?

09. August, 2026 - 05:22

Editorial team Bringing compute, storage, and networking together in a single software-defined platform, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is transforming the modern data center.

Risks Facing Modern IT Infrastructure

Climate Change and IT Infrastructure: Preparing Data Centers for Extreme Weather

27. July, 2026 - 07:47

Extreme weather threatens IT operations. Learn how strategic site selection and geographic redundancy can help make data centers climate resilient through 2030.

Amazon Web Services under fire

Iran War: AWS confirms drone strikes on data centers

03. March, 2026 - 11:23

Amazon Web Services has confirmed that drone strikes directly hit two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates. The attacks are a consequence of the escalating conflict in the Middle East, following strikes conducted by the United States and Israel against Iran.

Space Data Center

Company wants to send data center to the moon via SpaceX

28. January, 2025 - 14:01

The US startup Lonestar Data Holdings is getting serious about its plans to install the first physical data center on the surface of the moon. The company announced on Tuesday that the fully assembled data center will be launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the end

Microsoft's next-generation data center

Data centers of the future use no water for cooling

12. December, 2024 - 09:07

Microsoft has unveiled a new data center design that is optimized for AI workloads and uses no water for cooling.

Three Mile Island

US reactor to be reconnected to the grid for Microsoft’s data centers

23. September, 2024 - 05:23

Microsoft is an AI pioneer, but the technology requires an enormous amount of electricity. In order not to jeopardize its climate targets, the software company relies on nuclear power – from a plant with a history.