Cyber and resilience
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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.
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Slough resilience plant moves into environmental permitting
Iron Mountain has applied for a bespoke environmental permit covering combustion equipment with aggregate rated thermal input of at least 50MW at its Dundee Road data centre site in Slough.
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Fire drives severity in data-centre losses
Fire accounts for more than half the severity of roughly €700m in analysed data-centre losses, while water damage is the most frequent claim cause.
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MDM plans $500m Ireland-US cable pair
MDM plans two $500m transatlantic cable routes connecting Ireland and America.
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Server resilience starts below the operating system
Infineon’s SEMPER NOR Flash has joined ASPEED’s AST2700 approved-vendor list, validating the component for firmware storage in next-generation server management controllers.
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Denser racks meet a thinner skills pool
Uptime Institute’s 2026 survey finds more facilities reaching 30kW rack densities while recruitment difficulties, outage costs, power constraints, and incomplete sustainability measurement persist.
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Cyber rules reach the control cabinet
European Commission guidance has clarified how the Cyber Resilience Act applies to connected products, remote services, support periods, modifications, and vulnerability reporting ahead of September obligations.
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Ireland makes fault response part of data-centre design
ABB has developed an ultracapacitor-based power architecture for Ireland’s proposed fault-ride-through rules, as EirGrid seeks to stop large electronic loads amplifying transmission disturbances.
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Cloud infrastructure meets conflict risk
Reported damage to Amazon-linked facilities in Bahrain puts physical security back into the cloud resilience debate.
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Ireland rewrites the rules for data centre faults
Proposed Irish grid rules would require large demand sites to remain stable through faults and restore at least 90% of pre-fault load within 500 milliseconds.