As of July 1, California began enforcing its controversial digital privacy law despite a call for a delay in enforcement due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of readiness by many companies.
The government's disaster mitigation team has found it difficult to get data center operators' pandemic-related outage risk assessments.
British government has designated data center operators as critical but not their heavily relied upon third-party contractors.
What if instead of always being utility customers, data centers were also energy suppliers, helping operators balance supply and demand on the grid?
Commercial providers want regulations that would push enterprises to move out of their old, inefficient data centers.
The new US tax investment program offers tax cuts for investment in low-income communities, including investment in data center projects.
European Commission says information and communications technologies must undergo their own “green transformation” to deliver their benefits in a draft plan.
Compliance with the new privacy rules doesn’t always fall on data center managers, but when it does, it's more difficult than it may sound.
If the industry doesn’t formulate a set of standards for securing critical infrastructure, regulators might.