Data center overheating causes CME to halt trading for over 10 hours, backup data center not activated

BlockBeats News, on November 29, from the evening of November 27 to the morning of November 28 local time, a key data center used by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group in the United States suspended service for more than 10 hours due to overheating. Reportedly, this critical data center is located in Aurora, a western suburb of Chicago. After the air conditioning equipment in the data center malfunctioned, the temperature rose to nearly 49 degrees Celsius, exceeding the maximum temperature stipulated by U.S. industry regulations by about 48%, resulting in the service outage.

It is currently unclear why CME did not activate its backup data center in the New York area. Some sources speculate that the possible reason is that major traders quoted on CME lack sufficient technical infrastructure at the backup data center, and therefore prefer to wait for the Aurora outage to be resolved. (Golden Ten Data)