Uptime Institute’s eighth annual outage analysis found good news and bad news for data center operators worldwide. The good news is that outage frequency is down. The bad news is that the price tag for those outages continues to rise.
The Annual Outage Analysis 2026 report found that outage prevention remains a focus for data center operators. Driven by escalating demand growth and the need to support AI-driven workloads, modern data centers can ill afford any kind of power outage. A rack of GPUs served by liquid cooling costs a lot of money. Even a brief cooling interruption can force GPU systems to throttle or shut down, disrupting…
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