THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL | 9
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THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL | 9
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THE NEED FOR BACKUP POWER On average, a typical American will
experience one power outage per year that lasts about three hours.
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This duration translates into an uptime of 99.97%, which many systems
can never achieve. Although our electrical grid is reliable, there is still a
0.03% chance that our power is lost. That chance of losing power leads
us to have backup batteries in our alarm clocks so we don't oversleep and
miss critical business meetings, backup batteries in our smoke alarms
so our houses don't burn down and backup batteries in our sump-pump
systems so our basements don't flood. The need for backup batteries
for data storage and servers is also critical.
1. "EIA data show average frequency and duration of electric power outages," www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=27892, 12 September 2016.
