In a world reliant on continuous electricity—whether for critical medical equipment, financial data centers, or home offices—power interruptions can mean data loss, equipment damage, and operational ...

One answer is an uninterruptible power supply, but maintaining batteries is no fun. [Scott] wanted to do better, so he built a UPS using supercapacitors. A supercapacitor UPS is nearly ideal.

Google Cloud’s us-east5-c (Columbus, Ohio) zone had a six-hour outage It was caused by a failure to its uninterruptible power supply Over 20 services and some storage disks went down Much like ...