When it comes to protecting mission-critical data, federal agencies face a sobering truth: prevention alone is no longer enough. Cyberthreats evolve by the hour, and system outages can ripple across critical networks in seconds.

Without cooling, data centres fall over. In November, a cooling system failure at a data centre in the US sent financial trading tech offline at CME Group, the world's largest exchange operator. The company has since put in place additional cooling capacity to help protect against a repeat of this incident.

Having data centers “visible in the night sky at dawn or dusk” presents a problem because some observers “rely on twilight to hunt for near-Earth asteroids,” said Scientific American. Also, it could worsen the space junk problem, as “more hardware is launched and more debris and fragments fall back through the atmosphere.”

The data center boom continues in Indiana. But what are data centers, and why are people upset about them coming to our state? Here's what Hoosiers should know.

Middlesex Township Planning Commission has recommended approval of a subdivision plan - creation of lots - for what would be one of the largest data center campuses in the state. Township supervisors are expected to take it up next month.

Microsoft is turning to West Michigan to gain a foothold in the race for data centers around the country as the demand grows.

As we build our largest data center to date in Richland Parish, we're investing in local businesses, infrastructure, and jobs.

As enterprises modernize, the question is no longer whether to use SAP or non-SAP tools, but how to make them work together effectively.