Data centre incidents recorded in Germany, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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Newest incident first. Each entry is free to read, with what happened and its sources; the record behind it adds the cause where it is established, the part that failed, the downtime and the loss.
On Monday 2 March 2026 at about 19:30, the power failed at the data centre of Regio IT, a municipal IT service provider, in Aachen, Germany. The emergency generator started, but it did not prevent damage: a central network component failed and systems went...
On 9 October 2025, at about 19:42, a fire broke out at the Centron data centre in the Hallstadt area of Bamberg after maintenance work. The operator said the incident involved the main low-voltage distribution and the associated UPS system. The local fire...
In late March 2025 a small smouldering fire broke out in the electrical system that mainly supplied the second expansion stage of the Lichtenberg II high-performance computer (LB2A2) at the TU Darmstadt data centre in Darmstadt, Germany. The university...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source. One entry's record is £2.99 on its page.
On 23 October 2024 at 18:22 US/Pacific time, an electrical arc flash occurred in one of the power distribution units serving the europe-west3-c zone of Google Cloud's Frankfurt region in Germany. The fault caused a partial power outage in a single data...
On 24 May 2018 a thunderstorm reportedly caused voltage fluctuations in the local grid at Falkenstein in Saxony, Germany, affecting three data centres operated by Hetzner Online. The uninterruptible power supply (UPS) apparently did not take over as intended,...
A power outage at a Vodafone data centre in Germany damaged server disks that helped host the M-Pesa mobile money service run by Safaricom in Kenya, according to Safaricom Kenya as reported by ITWeb Africa. The damage stopped Kenyan users from sending money,...
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