• Microsoft and Meta are developing an AI system; that generates alerts for data centre construction.
• They’re developing operations teams; in order to “prevent or mitigate the impact of safety incidents”.
• Five people were taken to the hospital after a chlorine gas leak; at an Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina.

Data centres, which power billions of people’s apps, websites, and services every day; can be dangerous places to work for those who design and maintain them.

While a data center’s electrical equipment is being energised; workers are occasionally required to service it.

They could also be exposed to chemicals like chlorine; which is used to sterilise the water circulated through computer and server liquid cooling systems.

In June 2015, a chlorine gas leak at an Apple data centre in Maiden, North Carolina; sent five people to the hospital.

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Data centres are now safer than they used to be. However, some tech titans have stated that they are investigating how AI can be used to prevent safety issues; in the search for innovative solutions.

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