Data centres, cloud providers face new capture test under SOCI rewrite


Data centres and cloud services would no longer be captured under Australia’s critical infrastructure laws based on their customers or the data they handle under a major shake-up of the regime.

In a consultation paper released on Friday, the government has proposed a new capture test that would instead judge data storage and processing assets against “objective and provider-facing” characteristics, such as power load in the case of data centres. …

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