Tag Archives: Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning

03Nov/26

Hackers Turn Supermarket Freezers Into Ovens

November 3, 2026Securityand air conditioning, ANSSI, Articles, Belgium, Carrefour, Computer security, Coopérative U, Copeland, Cybercrime, E-commerce, Economy, Estonia, Finland, Food preservation, Forescout, France, Heating, Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, Intermarché, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Operational technology, Refrigeration, Refrigerator, Sweden, Technology, Van, Vapor-compression refrigeration, ventilatingadmin

A Wake-Up Call for Retail OT: Hackers Weaponize Supermarket Cooling Systems Across Nine Countries

Tue, Nov 03 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — In October and November 2026, a coordinated wave of cyber-physical attacks compromised commercial refrigeration systems across hundreds of supermarkets in France and at least eight other European countries, including Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia, and Finland. Threat actors remotely hijacked internet-exposed supervisory controllers—chiefly Danfoss AK-SM and AK-SC series, as well as Copeland and Dixell XWEB units—manipulating operational parameters to force evaporators into continuous manual defrost modes. Cabinet and freezer temperatures soared to between 50°C and 55°C (122°F–131°F) for hours overnight, spoiling thousands of metric tons of perishable inventory across major chains such as Intermarché, Carrefour, Delhaize, Coopérative U, Coop, and ICA. The sabotage caused tens of millions of euros in direct stock and business losses, triggered temporary store closures, and led to localized electrical fires from thermal runaway in compressor units. Continue reading →

22May/23

Supermicro Launches Industry’s First NVIDIA HGX H100 8 and 4-GPU H100 Servers with Liquid Cooling — Reduces Data Center Power Costs by Up to 40%

May 22, 2023Technology5G, Computing, Concurrent computing, Data centers, Digital technology, Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, Nvidia, Supermicro, Supermicro Inc.admin

Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, continues to expand its data center offerings with liquid cooled NVIDIA HGX H100 rack scale solutions. Advanced liquid cooling technologies entirely from Supermicro reduce the lead time for a complete installation, increase performance, and result in lower operating expenses while significantly reducing the PUE of data centers. Savings for a data center are estimated to be 40% for power when using Supermicro liquid cooling solutions compared to an air-cooled data center. In addition, up to 86% reduction in direct cooling costs compared to existing data centers may be realized. Continue reading

27Mar/23

UpEnergy issues world’s first carbon credits linked to electric clean cooking devices deployed in sub-Saharan Africa

March 27, 2023InnovationCook stove, Cooker, Cooking appliances, Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, Home appliances, Kampala, Ovens, Stove, Stoves, Ugandaadmin

UpEnergy, a leading social enterprise based in Kampala, Uganda, announced it has issued the world’s first ever carbon credits linked to emissions savings from the use of electric clean cooking devices. The emissions reductions were created in a new UpEnergy-led project aimed at replacing traditional, biomass burning stoves with an innovative electric stove created by climate tech startup PowerUP. The PowerUP electric pressure cooker (EPC) is designed for low-income households in several countries across sub-Saharan Africa. The credits, which are verified by The Gold Standard, represent the opportunity for African consumers with access to electricity to abandon the toxic burning of unsustainable, wood-based fuels and breathe cleaner air with healthier, zero-emissions electric cooking. Continue reading

11Oct/22

Four ways to reduce your household energy use – proven by research

October 11, 2022EconomyArticles, Aurore Julien, Construction, Creative Commons, Energy, Energy conservation, Energy policy, Hanover, Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, Home appliances, Plumbing, Robert Bodnar, S Energy, Shower, Shutterstock Energy, Temperature control, Thermostat, United Kingdom, Water heatingadmin

Aurore Julien, UCL

A particularly cold September has given us a glimpse of the winter to come. The cold will bite hardest for the 13% of England’s households that are already in fuel poverty. As the energy crisis intensifies, this is expected to rise further.

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