Every data centre incident in public reporting that names a backup generator or its diesel supply: fires, failures to start and the outages that followed, each with its sources. Free to read.
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On 11 September 2026, roughly 5,500 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from a storage tank at an Equinix data centre on Hartz Way in Secaucus, New Jersey, according to local reports. The fuel flowed into Anderson Creek, a tributary of the Hackensack River. Equinix...
On Sunday 5 July 2026, MTN Uganda said a major power failure at one of its data centres disrupted voice calls, mobile data and MTN MoMo mobile money services. Subscribers in different parts of Uganda reported being unable to make or receive calls, access data...
At about 19:30 on Monday 2 March 2026 the power failed at the data centre of the municipal IT service provider Regio IT in Aachen, Germany. The emergency generator started, but it did not prevent damage. A central network component failed and the systems went...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
On 1 March 2026, at around 4:30am Pacific time (4:30pm UAE time), one Availability Zone, mec1-az2, in Amazon Web Services' ME-CENTRAL-1 region in the UAE was impacted by objects that struck the data centre, creating sparks and fire. AWS initially reported...
On 7 February 2026, one data centre within Microsoft's West US cloud region in California, United States, lost power. According to a post incident report that Microsoft published, an electrical failure in an on-site transformer caused the loss of utility...
Residents near the Echelon Data Centre in Clondalkin Industrial Estate reported intrusive noise during repeated night-time start-ups, loud enough to be heard through double glazing. Witnesses also reported thick black smoke from generator chimneys. A resident...
About 200 gallons of diesel were spilled near the Meta Data Center compound in Altoona, Iowa, on 3 December 2025, during routine maintenance on an on-site generator. The generator was being serviced by Turner Construction Company, according to WHO 13 and the...
At about 3:26 a.m. on 7 April 2025, a power outage hit the Bundang internet data centre (IDC) operated by Hostway, disrupting services on the third and fourth floors. According to a failure report obtained by Digital Daily, overcurrent in some generator units...
On 29 March 2025 the us-east5-c zone of Google Cloud's US East region, centred on Columbus, Ohio, lost utility power. The uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system that should have bridged the gap until generators started suffered a critical battery failure...
On 9 October 2024, MainOne suffered a one-hour power outage at MDXi II data centre in Lekki, Nigeria, owned by Equinix, TechCabal reported. The outage took several Nigerian banks offline. The report said millions of customers could not access banking...
A fire occurred at a data centre on the West Side of San Antonio, Texas, near Potranco and Ingram Road. The incident began around 2 p.m. when a fuel line split during diesel refuelling of generators. Fuel contacted hot exhaust components and ignited. The fire...
On 12 August 2024, GleSYS AB was carrying out planned maintenance at its VBDC data centre in Stockholm, Sweden. The work involved installing one of two new uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units with new switchgear, and retiring the previous UPS system....
On Thursday 15 August 2024 a fire broke out on the roof of 350 East Cermak Road in Chicago, Illinois, a multi-tenant carrier hotel data centre that Digital Realty owns and operates as its ORD10 facility. CBS Chicago reported that firefighters attended the...
On 14 May 2024 a transformer supplying power to the Interxion/Digital Realty FRA2 data centre in Frankfurt failed, causing loss of critical IT load to equipment in the space. The site's generators also failed to start. Around 11:56 UTC a generator was running...
At about 03:05 on 11 February 2024, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) detected a power feed disruption at its colocation data centre in South Africa. According to the JSE's service notice, the site was being load shed when the generator on the B leg power...
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 2 November 2023 Portland General Electric (PGE) had an unplanned maintenance event that shut down one of the utility feeds into the Flexential PDX04 data centre near Hillsboro, Oregon. Flexential started its generators to supplement the lost feed and kept...
An electrical failure in one of the redundant uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units at the Evocative EWR1 data centre, formerly INAP, at 1 Enterprise Avenue in Secaucus, New Jersey, United States, caused the unit to start smoking and then to start a small...
On 20 October 2023 Microsoft detected instability on the utility grid, in the form of voltage sags and swells, at one of its data centres in the AZ-01 Availability Zone of its West Europe region in the Netherlands. The company decided to transfer the load...
A fire broke out at a Windstream data centre in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday 2 September 2023. According to the reporting, the fire caused a transformer to short and explode, which took down power to the facility's two main switches. The backup generator...
Counted from the register on 27 October 2026. The 57 entries whose own reporting names this, of 179 data centre entries in all. A mention in the reporting, not a finding of fault.
As the register classes each entry, from its sources.
| What happened | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical | 38 | |
| Thermal / fire | 12 | |
| Mechanical | 4 | |
| Control system | 2 | |
| Other | 1 |
Counted from the words of each entry's own reporting: an entry counts under each part it names, and "Not stated" means the public reporting named none. A mention, not a finding of fault.
| Part named | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| Backup generators | 57 | |
| UPS and battery rooms | 25 | |
| Switchgear and electrical rooms | 15 | |
| Transformers and substations | 7 | |
| Fuel systems | 6 |
| Country | Entries | |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 24 | |
| United Kingdom | 6 | |
| Germany | 4 | |
| France | 3 | |
| South Korea | 2 | |
| Netherlands | 2 | |
| Australia | 2 | |
| Canada | 2 | |
| Uganda | 1 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | |
| Ireland | 1 | |
| Nigeria | 1 | |
| Sweden | 1 | |
| South Africa | 1 | |
| Japan | 1 | |
| Nepal | 1 | |
| Brazil | 1 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | |
| Haiti | 1 | |
| Taiwan | 1 |
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The register holds 57 data centre generator entries from public reporting, 2010 to 2026, in 20 countries. 12 of them are fires or thermal events; the rest are electrical, mechanical, control system and other incidents. Each entry lists its sources.
Where the public reporting names a part, the most common are backup generators (57), UPS and battery rooms (25), switchgear and electrical rooms (15). 0 of the 57 entries name no part. The register does not guess a cause; where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
In the reporting the register has found, United States (24), United Kingdom (6), Germany (4) have the most entries. 6 are in the United Kingdom. That partly reflects where the assets are built and where the press reports on them.
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Public reporting on data centre generator incidents often names the site but rarely the make, the model or the cause. The register does not guess them. Where a fire service, regulator or the operator states one, the entry carries it and says who said it.
57 entries so far, 16 since 2024. Confirm your email and every data centre incident on the register arrives as a spreadsheet (CSV), free. One email when a new incident is reported, at most two a day, plus a Monday digest. Free, no account needed, unsubscribe in one click.
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