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Comment by Christopher Tozzi

Technology analyst and freelance journalist covering data centers, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and AI.
Governments could require facilities that host certain classes of AI workloads to maintain a standardized mechanism for isolating those workloads in an emergency, most likely through network disconnection rather than power interruption.
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Christopher Tozzi, “Building AI Kill Switches in Data Centers,” Data Center Knowledge, November 9, 2026. Tozzi proposes requiring facilities that host specified AI workloads to maintain a standardized emergency-isolation mechanism, most likely network disconnection.
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Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment
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