Data Center Projects Face Global Challenges and Outages
Data center projects are encountering various issues globally, including Amazon's Chile data center moving forward despite opposition, a proposed Amazon distribution center in Austria being rejected, and an AWS data center outage in Virginia impacting services. A major data center project in Virginia was also reportedly stalled due to a clerical error.
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The cloud platform says it is currently working to resolve the outage, caused by overheating at a data center in Northern Virginia.
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