News Summary

• The EU estimates that nearly 53% of its businesses use paid cloud services of some kind.
• Having no access to cloud services is almost always disruptive, chaotic, and sometimes paralyzing for businesses.
• Large-scale outages are becoming fairly common – with some declaring that they have become a ‘new normal’ in 2026.
• Even outages that last only a few hours can do massive cumulative damage to the economy.
• Data centers are incredibly appealing targets for criminal and national level hackers given the amount of critical data and operations stored there.