CME Data Center Bolsters Backup Cooling After 10-Hour Outage
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The CME data center, which handles trillions of dollars in derivatives daily, experienced a 10-hour outage due to a cooling system failure. The facility's owner, CyrusOne, has restored operations and added redundancy to the cooling systems. This move aims to prevent similar outages in the future.
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CyrusOne — which owns the facility in the suburban town of Aurora, Illinois, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Chicago — said it had restored “stable and secure” operations and that it had installed “additional redundancy to the cooling systems,” according to a statement to Bloomberg News on Sunday. The data center serves as the hub for trillions of dollars of derivatives that change hands each day across equity, currency, bond and commodity markets globally. CME’s markets were out for more than 10 hours on Friday after a failure in the cooling system at the facility, run by privately owned CyrusOne.
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Original article published by Yahoo Finance on December 1, 2025. Analysis and insights provided by AnalystMarkets AI.