Uptime Intelligence’s 5th consecutive Annual Data Center Outages Analysis analyzes recent data on the causes, frequency and consequences of IT and data center outages.

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.

This 9-page executive summary is an excerpt of a much more detailed 29-page report available to Uptime Network and Uptime Intelligence customers.