At that time, the community speculated countless reasons, such as program crashes, system bugs, etc., but it turned out to be CME Group's main data center.

On-site staff forgot to drain the cooling tower water before the temperature dropped to freezing, which resulted in the cooling system for the servers freezing and unable to function properly.

Ultimately, the server temperature kept rising, and the world's largest futures exchange was forced to pause for 10 hours.

A huge straw platform in the world..