Data centers are vital to corporations worldwide, as key insights need to be managed, analyzed, and shared in order for businesses to run in this digitally enabled world. Yet, somehow, modern data centers are still vulnerable to experiencing unexpected, costly power outages.
According to the Uptime Institute, nearly one-third of data centers experienced a service interruption in 2018. Power failure was a leading cause, followed by network problems and IT system failure. As every company becomes more digitized, data is even more critical to business operations, so the detriment to operations during an outage has magnified. In fact, studies have shown the cost of data center outages has grown to $8,851 per minute in the U.S. At the same time, there’s greater demand for cleaner energy resources globally than ever before, and data center energy consumption is on the rise. The industry needs a power solution that can simultaneously maximize resilience, sustainability, and efficiency.