AWS experiences power issues at Northern Virginia cloud region, causing limited outage
Caused by thermal event
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NorthC data center outside Amsterdam suffers fire
Firefighters still fighting blaze
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Pure DC not pausing Middle East investment, contrary to reports, despite drone debris near miss
The operator said it remained committed to the market, which was a key strategic pillar
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Police arrest two men for copper wire theft at cell tower in Farmville, North Carolina
The two men impersonated AT&T contractors
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Internet outages spike in Q1 2026, says Cloudflare
Iran War largely to blame
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Toronto police make three arrests as part of 'SMS blaster' cyber fraud investigation
Two arrests were made last month and one this week as part of the investigation
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Bangladesh telcos warn of network shutdowns amid oil shortage crisis
AMTOB calls on government to prioritize network operators with fuel
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AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 “lost” by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launch
D2D contender sees £2bn slump in market cap after engine failure, but still expects BlueBirds 8-10 to ship in next 30 days
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Aon increases data center insurance coverage to $3.5bn
Company will also cover existing data centers coming off the first year of operations
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Suspect shot dead after attempted attack on cell tower in Mississippi
The man was shot dead following a shootout with law enforcement
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Australia's Vocus restores services after fiber cut impacted customers in Victoria and New South Wales
Services were restored in the evening following morning fiber cut
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Lonestar announces StarVault data storage platform, extends agreement for construction with Sidus Space
StarVault will be launched in October aboard LizzieSat-4
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DARPA Smash: Agency hopes to recover all elements from ore, render China’s rare earth supply chain stranglehold obsolete
Would also solve copper shortages and other supply challenges
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QTS data center site in Utah evacuated after bomb threat
Anti-data center rhetoric continues to grow
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Suspect arrested after Molotov cocktail attack against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home
Same individual believed to have threatened OpenAI's headquarters
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Hardware error causes major IT outage at gov't data center in Saarland, Germany
Up to a petabyte of data will have to be migrated to a backup system
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Iran's Sharif University of Technology hit in US-Israel strikes, destroying HPC data center
Attack occurred ahead of temporary ceasefire
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Iran threatens to attack OpenAI's Stargate data center in UAE
After hitting Amazon and Oracle data centers
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Iran attack hits an Oracle data center in Dubai, causes limited damage
Dubai Media Office initially calls claims "fake news," later confirms shrapnel impact
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Fire at AWS data center in Bahrain after Iranian attack - report
AWS yet to confirm
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Iran makes further threats against Big Tech in the Middle East
Says it is in response to US attempts to kill Iranian leadership
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Starlink satellite suffers incident – likely broken into pieces
SpaceX promises no risk to ISS or NASA missions
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China’s SMIC shipping chipmaking equipment to Iranian military – report
US-sanctioned chipmaker is believed to have been shipping tools to Iran for about a year
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HostDime suffers downtime at UK data center due to contractual dispute with colocation provider
Brings down HostDime customer workloads as well
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AWS Bahrain region "disrupted" by drone activity as war in Middle East continues to impact data centers
Cloud giant moves more customers to other regions
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Iran threatens to attack energy and IT infrastructure if Trump targets power plants
After AWS data centers were hit early on in the war
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Three at Supermicro charged with smuggling Nvidia GPU servers into China, including company co-founder
One of the defendants is a co-founder of the server manufacturer