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News - Outages (EN)
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Subsea cable repaired after outage in Sitka, Alaska
Problem was flagged before Internet service was interrupted
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Virginia narrowly avoided power cuts when 60 data centers dropped off the grid at once
Energy grid regulator reveals near-miss last summer
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Copper cable thieves strike again in St Neots, UK, causing disruption to Openreach
More than 1,000 meters of copper cable has been damaged, says Openreach
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Accelsius offers $100,000-per-rack insurance against cooling leak damage
Company offers warranty program for cooling tech
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Nottingham City Council data center experiences outage in the UK
Outage focused at council HQ, brings down data center
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One hospitalized after fire at Singapore data center
Incident at SG.GS facility after server explosion
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Peace subsea cable cut in the Red Sea, repair to take months
Cause of the breakage is not yet known
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X hit by three network outages within hours of each other
Musk says a prolonged cyberattack is to blame for the multiple outages
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Former tower contractor arrested for alleged theft of more than 900 cell tower batteries
The suspect previously carried out maintenance work for a tower company
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Alaska Communications suffers ACS subsea cable break in Southeast Alaska
Majority of services have now been restored
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PLDT outlines cable thieves crackdown progress, more than 2,400 arrests in three years
Wants to cut down the amount of downtime on the company's network
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Winter storm knocked out power at Pfizer's Groton data center in Connecticut
Power has since been restored, but caused several hardware failures
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UK ISP Community Fibre suffers network outage
The outage affected thousands in London
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Power failure at Vodafone's Sydney data center caused by storm leads to major outage
The storm impacted Internet services for a number of providers
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PlayStation Network suffers major global outage lasting more than a day
The weekend is usually peak time for online gamers
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Former FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly calls for tougher action against telco infrastructure vandals
Tougher penalties will deter crooks from causing damage to broadband infrastructure, says O'Rielly
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UK bank Barclays hit by outage on payday and tax deadline day
Yes, that's definitely why I didn't file my tax forms on time
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Man arrested as environmental activists take credit for cutting UK insurance firms’ fiber optic cables
Shut the System claim to have disrupted the Internet comms for hundreds of insurance firms across the UK
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Former contractor shuts down British Museum's IT systems, gets arrested
Museum forced to close some galleries and exhibitions
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Lightning strikes Brazilian data center, putting services out of action
There were no reports of injuries
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Three suffers network outage in UK, working to restore issue
Says calls to 999 calls have not been impacted
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Taiwan blames "natural deterioration" for latest subsea cable outage
Government officials don't suspect sabotage on this occasion
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NASA sun observatory operational after 2024 data center flood
No science data was lost
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NATO to enhance Baltic Sea military presence, as sixty-mile drag mark found near damaged cable
Hi-tech equipment found on suspected vessel
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Finnish authorities board ship suspected of cutting subsea Internet and power cables
Four Internet cables cut in latest Baltic Sea incident
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Japan's telcos forge disaster response agreement
The agreement will see the telcos work together to ensure connectivity is available when possible during natural disasters