CME Data-Center Issue Hits Options, Futures Trading(wsj.com)
wsj.com
CME Data-Center Issue Hits Options, Futures Trading
https://www.wsj.com/finance/cme-options-futures-trading-halted-amid-data-center-issue-16e96ed1
https://www.wsj.com/finance/cme-options-futures-trading-halted-amid-data-center-issue-16e96ed1
"CME's daily traded notional exceeds $1 trillion across products, equating to ~25-35% of global ETD notional in key categories like interest rates (~$10-15 trillion quarterly) and commodities. Global ETD outstanding notional was ~$100-150 trillion in 2025, with CME leading in high-liquidity benchmarks." - Grok summary
Insane that cooling in one data center can affect this much, and no more than two sentences is the only status update for almost 6 hours.
I guess we’re not getting the full Cloudflare-style post-mortem on how one chiller took down the planet’s risk market.