Data centre incidents recorded in Japan, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
5 published entries. Newest first. Search and filter these in the register.
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.
In February 2024 a fire broke out in the UPS room of a data centre in the area served by the Inzai District Fire Department in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The UPS room supplies power to the server rooms from stored battery power until backup generators can be...
On 26 March 2022 a fault occurred in part of the power supply system at a data centre operated by Kyndryl Japan. The fault began at 11:08 am, and power was restored at 11:44 am the same day, so the power disruption lasted about 36 minutes. The systems of some...
On Monday 25 November 2019, a power failure occurred at 13:58 at a data centre operated by NTT Communications in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The failure happened during switchover work on the data centre's power equipment. An excessive current was generated, and...
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.
A 3 August 2018 headline reported a fatal fire at an AWS data centre in Tokyo. The article text is not available, so the date of the fire, the number of deaths, the equipment involved and any effect on services are not known.
On Friday 31 March 2017, Microsoft Azure services across Japan were affected for several hours after a failure at the Japan East data centre in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. The facility is managed by a third party. Microsoft's status page said that one...
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