Dateline Ashburn: How to Break the Internet

Dateline Ashburn: How to Break the Internet

💡Editor’s note: This is the first article in a five-part series by Broadband Breakfast about the security, energy and internet infrastructure issues associated with data centers in Ashburn. Interested in more? Attend the Resilient Critical Infrastructure Summit in Washington on Sept. 18. ASHBURN, Va., Sept 5, 2025 – This former bedroom community is home to the world’s densest cluster of data centers. But U.S. officials warn that concentrating s…