Data centers deal with the risk of power cuts

Power outage is one of the worst nightmares of managers of data storage centers, which are very power-hungry facilities. Thus, in France, data centers consume the output of nearly two nuclear reactors. Any interruption in the electricity supply poses the risk of seeing data permanently lost. The growing dependence of companies on cloud services accentuates the criticality of data centers. They are the backbone of a digital economy that relies on buildings and servers that are very concrete.

Data centers may well be designed and built to deal with a power supply interruption and have included resilience in their specifications, but the power cuts envisaged this winter by RTE give their managers cold sweats. “Our facilities have two additions of electricity and are all equipped with diesel generators capable of taking the…