Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages

The Register · Dan Robinson · last updated May 7, 2025 – 5:44 AM

Datacenter outages are less frequent and severe, but human error remains one of the most persistent challenges, with between two-thirds and four-fifths of major wobbles involving some element of meatbag-related cause.

According to the latest Annual Outage Analysis report from Uptime Institute, the overall picture is one of improving reliability, but with the sting in the tail that when failures do occur they can be significant and costly.

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