Data Center Preventive Maintenance

Data centers are critical infrastructures that house complex networks and systems that are essential to businesses and organizations. Preventive maintenance is key to ensuring the reliability and availability of these systems, but it often involves working at height, which poses significant safety risks. The cost of data center downtime can be staggering, with an average cost of $5,600 per minute and an average cost of $505,500 per single downtime event. The leading and most costly root causes of downtime are related to vulnerabilities in power and cooling infrastructures, with 15% being attributed to thermal issues, including water incursion and IT equipment failures relating to heat density and cooling capacity. The operational costs for detecting and recovering from these failures were on average $489,000 per incident.