Imagine if the cloud supplier was actually as important as the electricity supplier.
But since you mention it, there are instances of this and provisions for getting back up and running:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, I got hit by the 2003 grid outage, which is once in >20 years. Seems like a fairly good uptime to me.
(Each electrical grid can perhaps be considered analogous to a separate cloud provider. Or perhaps, in US/CA, regions:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Electric_Reliab...
)
Imagine if the cloud supplier was actually as important as the electricity supplier.
But since you mention it, there are instances of this and provisions for getting back up and running:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iberian_Peninsula_blackou...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003