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Willis urges data centre sector to rethink insurance buying amid AI demand growth
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Willis advises data centre operators to overhaul insurance purchasing strategies as AI workload density and infrastructure demands expose gaps in traditional coverage models. The broker signals that existing policies fail to account for concentration risk, power and cooling failures, and business interruption at scale.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure and Insurtech, and 2 sources have reported it.
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Data centre insurance has become a liability blindspot as AI workloads exceed the engineering assumptions underwritten into your policy. You need to audit your cooling, power distribution and redundancy specs against your actual coverage limits before renewal or face uncovered losses when a cascade failure hits.
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2 sources · 27 Jul 2026
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