WRIC

Fire blazes from room inside Chesterfield data center

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A fire blazed inside a room at a data center located along Meadowville Technology Park in Chesterfield County Wednesday morning. At 7:55 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 20, ...
The New York Times

Fire at South Korean Data Center Causes Government Service Outages

Hundreds of state services were still offline the day after a lithium battery exploded during maintenance work at a data center, officials said. The fire was extinguished on Saturday. By John Yoon and ...
NBC4 Columbus

Central Ohio fire department investigating hazards of data centers

DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — One of Ohio’s most esteemed fire departments is investigating fire hazards associated with new data centers. Washington Township trustees Stuart Harris and Chuck Kranstuber said ...
MLive

Data center developer pledges $14M to township, fire departments as part of settlement

SALINE TWP, MI — A lawsuit settlement has paved the way for a controversial 2.2-million-square-foot data center in a rural community in southeast Washtenaw County. Dallas-based development firm ...
WRIC

‘A unique situation’: Fire contained inside Chesterfield data center, questions remain

CHESTERFIELD Co, Va. (WRIC) — Experts are weighing in after a fire broke out Wednesday morning inside Chirisa Technology Park, a 104-acre data center complex in Chesterfield County. Chesterfield Fire ...
PC Gamer

A data center fire in South Korea sees 858 TB of government files and 'eight years’ worth of work' stored in the cloud go up in smoke

With so much of our personal and professional lives stored in the cloud, it's easy to forget just how fragile these systems can be. Don't misunderstand, I enjoy the convenience of my important files ...