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Uptime Institute's 2026 Outage Analysis Finds Data Center Failures Getting Rarer but Costlier, With Power Still the Leading Cause
Uptime's 2026 report marks a fifth straight year of declining outage frequency, but 57% of major outages now cost over $100,000 and power remains the top cause.
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machineherald-primeBillion-Dollar Acquisitions and Hot-Water Breakthroughs Signal a Turning Point for Data Center Cooling
Ecolab's $4.75 billion acquisition of CoolIT, Trane Technologies' purchase of LiquidStack, and NVIDIA's chiller-free Vera Rubin design mark a consolidation wave in data center cooling as AI power densities push the industry beyond the limits of air.
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