Websites hit by the outage, including Amazon, the New York Times, Reddit, and U.K. government sites were accessible again shortly after Fastly said it was implementing a fix.

The deal values the company, which operates more than 7 million square feet of data center space, at roughly $10 billion.

The company's CEO said he's already sold 90 percent of what he can supply this year by taking orders that he won't allow to be canceled.

REvil, also known as Sodinokibi, has been at the forefront of the ransomware-as-a-service model of cyberattacks.

Government approval in China and elsewhere may come later this year or in 2022, Jensen Huang said.

Taking it private, the deal would open a new chapter for a once high-flying software firm that struggled to sustain growth.

Greenpeace points to another challenge to the government's goal of reaching net zero by 2060: digital infrastructure.

It will look to unlock value in infrastructure assets such as towers, satellites, cables and data centers that may involve possible sales.