Cyber and resilience
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Hitachi integrates data centre operations in HMAX
Hitachi launches HMAX Data Center for integrated data centre operations.
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Lords weigh data centre shutdown powers
A Lords amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill proposes emergency powers to direct data centre shutdowns during severe AI-related incidents, while separate amendments on thresholds and critical suppliers have fallen away.
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Southern Water tests data centre overhaul
Southern Water tests options to rationalise its data centre estate.
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Proton outage exposes cooling failover weakness
A Frankfurt cooling failure knocked multiple Proton services temporarily offline.
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EXA adds Barcelona–Bilbao fibre route
EXA Infrastructure has added a Barcelona–Bilbao terrestrial route via Zaragoza, creating a shorter path between Mediterranean subsea landings and Atlantic connectivity.
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Caritas hospital data centre targets 220kW
Caritas Hospital’s new modular data centre in Bad Mergentheim has entered service with a 78kW IT load and expansion capacity to 220kW, backed by redundant cooling, emergency generation, and rooftop solar.
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Dutch NIS2 law activates data centre duties
The Netherlands’ Cybersecurity Act has taken effect, bringing data centre providers into a broader regime of cybersecurity risk management, incident reporting, and supervision.
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Who reports the incident when nobody sees the whole stack?
New resilience rules are putting data centre incidents under closer scrutiny, but colocation divides control across operators, customers, and suppliers, complicating who can see, classify, and explain a serious disruption.
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Larbert opposition moves into security planning
Police Scotland has urged security planning around Apatura’s proposed 300MW Larbert campus as sustained opposition brings physical access and disruption into an already contested planning process.
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Amazon’s Ridgeway backup plant enters permit process
Amazon Data Services UK is seeking an environmental permit for emergency backup generation rated at 50MW thermal input or more at its Ridgeway data centre in Iver.