Insurers warn $800 billion in data center investments are exposed to natural disasters

Plans for data centers in disaster-prone areas could be putting billions of dollars worth of investment at risk ...

56% of new US data centers could be built in "high risk" disaster-prone states with insurers warning of $800 billion investment exposed

Plans for data centers in disaster-prone areas could be putting billions of dollars worth of investment at risk ...
DatacenterDynamics

Half of planned US data centers “highly exposed” to natural disaster, $800bn in investments at risk - report

MS Amlin said that in its analysis of more than 670 data center projects under construction or planned across the US, 56 percent are being built in states at high risk of destructive weather and ...
DatacenterDynamicsOpinion

Designing for disaster: why one data center is never enough

Data centers go offline. Regions have issues. Services that everything depends on suddenly stop responding. Sometimes it’s a ...
CounterPunchOpinion

Vampire Planet: Data Centers, Far Bigger Disasters Than You Even Thought

The road is dusty and trash-strewn. My friend and collaborator Colby Groves is hanging out the car window as I drive, gazing ...

“We pissed off a lot of people”: Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

One of the world’s biggest data center projects was designed to be nearly three times the size of Manhattan, stretching ...
WTOL

Data centers targeted in US-Iran conflict highlight industry's vulnerability to disasters

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, — Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the ...
Yahoo

Chris Kelly Opinion: Data centers a preventable time-lapse disaster

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sudden tragedies test human capacity to respond in real time. When our alleged leaders are caught flat-footed and called out for ...