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all too frequent . In fact , in 2022 , 60 % of operators surveyed said that they had an outage in the past three years .
But , what ’ s more concerning is the current trend , which has seen outages becoming significantly more expensive for data centre operators .
Although a falling proportion of managers are reporting serious or severe outages , Uptime ’ s data revealed that a quarter of respondents said that their most recent outage had cost more than $ 1m , in both direct and indirect costs . A further 45 % said that their most recent outage cost between $ 100,000 and $ 1m . As a result , it can be concluded that more than two-thirds of all outages cost over $ 100,000 each .
This means , according to Uptime , that “ the business case for investing more in resiliency – and , as such , training – is becoming ever stronger ”.
“ If you lose a data centre for one hour , people are going to go crazy . Look back a year ago , for example , when Meta went down for six or seven hours – the impact that this had was very significant . One direct impact was the fact that they couldn ’ t sell advertisements . Another could be a loss in share prices , because it ' s not seen as ‘ safe ’ anymore or the sites are not up there , so people are immediately wondering what ' s going on ,” Turk asserts .
“ This means companies will do anything they can to maintain uptime .”
AR will play a critical role in helping to keep uptime as high as possible , thereby enabling data centres to build a strong brand reputation , maintain a high customer experience , and build trust .
Using AR to support the green energy shift With the data centre industry setting sustainability as one of its core focus areas ,
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