Annual Data Center Outages Analysis 2026

Outage prevention remains a central focus for data center operators as demand growth, AI-driven workloads and power constraints reshape risk profiles. Despite — and because of — advances in design and operations, operators are grappling with increasing system complexity, grid instability, growing co-dependencies and evolving external threats.
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Report Authors:
- Douglas Donnellan, Research Analyst
- Andy Lawrence, Executive Director of Research
- Rose Weinschenk, Research Associate
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