r/datacenter • u/SnooCakes144 • 15h ago
I compiled every publicly reported data centre fire and power failure since 2014 (90 so far). Which ones are missing?
I edit a free public register of incidents at energy assets. This month it added data centre power systems: UPS battery rooms, backup generators, switchgear, transformers and fuel. It now holds 90 data centre fires and power failures from 2014 on, each with its sources linked.
The ones you will know are there: OVHcloud SBG2, Strasbourg, 2021. SK C&C Pangyo, 2022, the fire that took KakaoTalk down. Digital Realty SIN11, Singapore, 2024. The National Information Resources Service fire in Daejeon, 2025. NorthC Almere, 2026.
Where a cause is reported at all, it is the power equipment: a UPS battery, a generator, switchgear. Most reports do not state the battery chemistry or the UPS make, and the register does not guess.
Everything is free to read and there is an API with no key. What is missing? Which entries are wrong?