When a data center cooling issue halted futures and options trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, it focused attention on the hidden infrastructure that’s becoming ever more critical to daily life: data centers.

A cooling failure at CME Group’s primary Aurora data center halted futures trading worldwide, raising questions about safeguards and private-equity ownership.

The Aurora, Illinois, complex has served as the primary hub of digital operations for the world’s largest futures exchange operator CME Group Inc. for nearly two decades. Traders want to be close to the data center to reduce latency,

Global futures markets were disrupted for several hours on Friday after CME Group, the world's largest exchange operator, suffered one of its longest outages in years, halting trading across stocks, bonds,

PJM Interconnection rejected 12 proposals to regulate data centers, leaving Maryland residents facing rising electricity bills and uncertain grid reliability.

Data center operator DartPoints plans to up the capacity of its Greenville center by 400%. But unlike the super centers popping up around the Palmetto State, each gobbling upwards of 100 megawatts of power,

The global boom in data centers as companies increasingly outsource information storage and ramp up use of energy-intensive artificial intelligence is creating a key challenge for the industry - how to keep cool.

Electrical grid operator PJM’s board voted against a proposal that would have offered key incentives for data centers and potentially lower energy costs for customers on Wednesday.

Peachtree Corners revised its ordinances last year to require data center operators to seek a special use permit for facilities within the light industrial-zoned parcels of its central business district along Peachtree Parkway, said Bertrand Lapoire, the city’s economic development director, in an email.

Data center operator Pure has been granted approval for a planned development in Madrid, Spain. The company this week announced it has received final planning approvals for Phase I of its €400 million ($463m) Madrid data center and private sub-station. Work on MAD01 is due to start this month.