Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly ...

A July incident in Virginia in which data centers unexpectedly disconnected from the power grid and nearly caused a blackout ...

A sudden disconnection by data centers in Data Center Alley exposed vulnerabilities in America's electrical grid. The ...

Both companies cited problems with their data center’s cooling systems for causing the outages as temperatures topped 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Google needed to power down some parts of its cloud ...

In a blog post, Cloudflare said the outage in the early hours of Tuesday affected traffic in 19 of its data centers. “Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our ...

The bill, which would improve grid reliability among other things, readies the state to support more data centers and AI ...

Fidelity Information Services, Capital One’s third-party vendor, told Forbes the company was restoring applications affected by a local power outage near one of its data centers. Get Forbes ...

The agency has built-in redundancies whereby affected offices pass their responsibilities to other nearby forecast centers, but these can be of limited use if a data outage is widespread.

Nottingham City Council in the UK is suffering a power outage at its data center. The outage is focused at Loxley House, ...

Data centers cause pollution through high electricity use, often sourced from fossil fuels. Back-up generators, needed in case of an outage, are commonly powered by diesel, which also contributes ...

Power grids are under stress, struggling to meet future demand and increasingly prone to outages - data centers will have to ...