The original question was phrased by the source as follows: "What was the primary cause of your data center’s most recent impactful incident or outage? (n=108)"
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Global crucial data center IT outages common causes 2020-2023
Between 2020 and 2023, the share of data center and IT outages worldwide caused by power disruptions has increased from ** to ** percent, remaining the most common root cause of such incidents. On the contrary, the number of outages caused by network or IT systems malfunction has decreased. In the last measured year, percent of crucial outages worldwide were caused by third-party providers, up from **** percent in 2020.
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