UII UPDATE 506 | JUNE 2026
Intelligence Update

Improving outage trends mask growing risks

30 Jun 2026
4 min read

OPINION

In recent years, when announcing its annual resiliency research results, the Uptime Intelligence analyst team has highlighted an apparent contradiction. While the number of data center outages continues to rise, the outage rate — measured as outages per data center or per megawatt of data center capacity — has steadily declined.

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