The information factories for the cloud computing age are about to get caught in the crossfire of the US-China trade war.
Two rounds of US tariffs on Chinese imports totalling $50bn, one of which has already come into effect, have targeted some of the key components that keep data centres humming.
But the tech industry is facing up to a third, $200bn list that takes full aim at key digital infrastructure — from the routers, switches and servers that redirect and process data, to components such as motherboards and memory modules used by bigger cloud companies to assemble their own equipment, all the way to the miles of cabling needed to wire the gear together.