By The Stack
Publication Date: 2026-05-08 09:11:00
A 12-hour fire at a data centre near Amsterdam has knocked out online operations for businesses in the Netherlands and beyond, with IBM one of those affected.
Data centre company NorthC confirmed a fire began at its data centre site in Almere, Netherlands at 08:45 on Thursday morning, with emergency services battling to control it until 20:50 the same day.
As of midnight on Friday 8 May, NorthC said the local fire department had scaled down its operations, and the company’s experts were on site to assess the damage. Nobody was harmed during the incident.
While no servers or data carriers were reported damaged in the fire, which appears to have been limited to the rear of the building, NorthC told public broadcaster NOS it had turned off the power supply after orders from emergency services.
IBM Cloud down
IBM confirmed to the media that it was one of those affected, after numerous reports online that its Amsterdam 03 region was down.
It told The Register: “IBM is aware of a…
