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Data Center Outages Decrease, But Downtime Costs Rise

Jason Chantelau
August 24, 2022

Data center operators are suffering fewer data center outages, but the financial impact is increasing when they do happen. 

In 2021, 69% of data center operators reported that they experienced an outage during the past three years, down from 78% in 2020, according to a recent Uptime Institute survey of 786 global IT and data center managers. 


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