In this handout provided by Amazon, a technician works at an Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Indiana on Oct. 2, 2025. (Photo by Noah Berger/Getty Images via Amazon Web Services)
A hearing of the House Homeland Security panel’s cyber subcommittee weighed whether to designate data centers as a standalone critical infrastructure sector.
Construction on an Oncor electricity power plant by the new Skybox Power Campus data colocation center in North Austin, Texas. Cybersecurity must be table stakes as the data center boom continues, this op-ed argues. (Getty Images)