Cyber and resilience
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When data centre load vanishes from the grid
A PJM voltage disturbance shows how sudden data centre load loss can test grid stability in dense clusters.
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Britain’s cyber rules collide with a skills shortage
A workforce report warns that expanded UK cyber regulation could draw scarce specialists into compliance work as data centres prepare for statutory resilience duties.
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Whitehall centralises AI but scatters its infrastructure
The UK government has moved AI strategy into the Cabinet Office while leaving planning, energy, telecoms, investment, security, and data centre regulation divided across Whitehall.
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Sines gains a 384Tbps Atlantic route
Google’s 7,000km Nuvem subsea cable has reached Sines, adding a high-capacity route between Portugal and North America.
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Britain’s cyber bill meets a thin skills bench
The UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill will extend security duties to data centres and managed service providers, while a shortage of experienced personnel threatens to constrain implementation.
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London–Brussels route skirts Europe’s crowded paths
RETN has opened an optical route between London and Brussels using new Rotterdam–Brussels fibre, a separate continental landing point, and a London path designed to avoid the Docklands corridor.
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Dutch outage pulls power and cooling into one failure
A utility power failure in Google Cloud’s Dutch region developed into a cooling loss and protective workload shutdowns, disrupting bare-metal, VMware, and managed storage services for more than 12 hours.
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$5bn cover arrives for gigawatt risk
Aon has expanded its data centre lifecycle insurance programme to $5 billion as larger campuses concentrate construction, equipment, cyber, cargo, and interruption exposure.
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Telxius sale puts Europe’s cable gateways in play
Telefónica and Pontegadea are reported to have reopened a sale of Telxius, placing transatlantic cable routes, landing stations, and connected data centre assets on the market.
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Datadog brings observability data closer to UK workloads
Datadog adds UK hosting for observability and security telemetry data.