Data Centre Operations: Cooling Systems Are Possible Targets for Operational Disruption

Dragos provides a threat perspective on operational and cyber risks to data centre cooling systems, describing recent cooling-related outages, the criticality of temperature control for cloud and industrial services, and the potential for adversaries to target building automation systems; the report calls out CHERNOVITE and the PIPEDREAM/MOUSEHOLE capabilities as theoretical risks and recommends risk assessments, incident planning, and adoption of OT security controls.