{"id":32725,"date":"2025-06-20T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inprord.com\/?p=32725"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:27:09","slug":"data-centre-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inprord.com\/en\/data-centre-power-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your data centre prepared for a power outage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;|auto|7px|auto||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2 data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Recent power outage in Spain leaves key lessons for data centres<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The massive blackout that affected a large part of the Iberian Peninsula demonstrated the importance of truly reliable <strong>back-up systems.<\/strong> Many data centres continued to operate thanks to uninterruptible power supplies, but it also revealed facilities with limitations that were not foreseen.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;3_5,2_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;3_5&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; theme_builder_area=&#8221;post_content&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"654\" data-end=\"1138\"><strong>Does the system cover all essential equipment?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Some sites saw their planned autonomy exceeded, or found that critical systems &#8211; such as air conditioning, monitoring or even physical access to the facilities &#8211; were not connected to the back-up system. 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