COLO · SLA GRADE BRIDGE POWER
Your SLA is priced per minute. Bridge it per millisecond.
Uptime Institute's 2026 outage analysis found 57% of operators reported their most recent significant outage cost over $100,000 — and about one in five exceeded $1M. In a multi-tenant cage, that bill lands on your floor space. Rack battery backup (BBU) units keep tenant racks alive through the event instead of racing to restart them after it.
The numbers
What downtime actually costs acolo floor.
| Reality | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Most recent significant outage >$100k | 57% of operators (2026 survey) | Uptime Institute Annual Outage Analysis 2026 |
| Outages exceeding $1M | ~1 in 5, second consecutive year | Uptime Institute Annual Outage Analysis 2026 |
| Power-related training interruptions | 466 interruptions in a 54-day pre-training run; ~78% hardware-related | Meta Llama 3 engineering paper (arXiv 2407.21783) |
| Grid capacity waiting list (US) | >2,060 GW queued generation + storage, end-2025 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory queues |
Sources: uptimeinstitute.com · arxiv.org · emp.lbl.gov
The VoltBridge fit
Per-cage autonomy without a UPS room.
VB-5125 shelves slot into the same 19-inch bays you already lease. Tenants get independent ride-through sized to their load — you get a differentiator that shows up in the SLA, not the brochure.
- ≤15 shelves share one bus; cage-level capacities from 5 to 77 kWh
- <1 ms bridge keeps GPU jobs and storage arrays coherent
- CAN/RS485/SNMP feeds your DCIM as another managed asset
- Cell-level telemetry flags weak units before they matter
Turn backup into a tenant feature.
We size cage-level bridge capacity from your metered load profile — 48-hour engineering reply.
