Heat Behind the Meter: A Hidden Threat of Thermal Attacks in Edge Colocation Data Centers

The widespread adoption of Internet of Things and latency-critical applications has fueled the burgeoning development of edge colocation data centers (a.k. a., edge colocation) — small-scale data centers in distributed locations. In an edge colocation, multiple entities/tenants house their own physical servers together, sharing the power and cooling infrastructures for cost efficiency and scalabil...