The controversial Apple data center in Guiyang, China, has been hit by the latest citywide COVID-19 lockdown to be imposed by the government. The data center is currently taking emergency measures, including closed-loop operation, in an attempt to keep the iCloud server online … The controversial Apple data center Apple usually operates its own data centers for iCloud data, though it does store some encrypted data on third-party services like Amazon Web Services. This doesn’t pose any additional security or privacy risks, since only Apple holds the encryption key. However, back in 2017 the Chinese government passed a law requiring...