Amazon’s cloud services were largely back online on Friday after overheating at one of its data centers triggered an outage that impacted companies including cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. The cloud giant said it was making progress in resolving the issue after a rapid spike in temperatures at a single data center in northern Virginia on Thursday knocked out power. Coinbase said its services were restored after the outage hampered their availability. Derivatives marketplace CME Group was also back up after facing some issues, though it was not clear if the issues at AWS and CME were related. Overheating in data centers has been a key problem for companies: advanced AI and cloud servers crunching data require massive amounts of power and give off intense heat. To regulate the heat, data center operators have been increasingly turning to water or specialized coolants, which are thousands of times more efficient than traditional air cooling. Do you think that data center overheating can be overcomed 100% ?
