TECH NEWS
A data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem
TL;DR A fire at a NorthC data centre in Almere knocked Utrecht University offline, disabled public transport emergency communications across Utrecht province, and triggered an NL-Alert across Flevoland. The incident exposes the physical fragility beneath the digital infrastructure the Netherlands is spending billions to expand, and the failure of
