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Exclusive: Expanding AI data centers have become tempting targets
Big Tech’s rapidly-expanding server farms are becoming increasingly tempting targets for ransomware gangs. In their Gadarene rush to be first with AI-based services, companies such as Google and Microsoft are not only abandoning any previous pretences about reducing their greenhouse emissions and energy consumption, they are also inadvertently building increasingly tempting targets for organized cybercriminals and nation-state threat actors. The online industry’s vast data centers and server farms run on similar operational technology (OT) systems to other industrial facilities. Originally designed to run offline, these systems are notoriously difficult to secure, particularly when they need to interface with newer information technology (IT) systems.