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CME Outage Highlights Data Center Cooling Challenges
11/29/2025
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Story summary
- An outage at CME Group, caused by a cooling failure at CyrusOne's Aurora, Illinois facility, underscored the critical role of data centers.
- Global demand for data centers is rising due to outsourcing and energy-intensive artificial intelligence.
- Cooling systems can account for up to 15% of data center costs, underscoring the need to prevent overheating.
- Companies are pursuing liquid cooling as an alternative, but it remains complex and costly.
