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Average cost of data center downtime across industries was approximately $5,600 per minute. - The average reported incident length was 90 minutes, resulting in average cost per incident of approximately $505,500. - For a total data center outage, which had an average recovery time of 134 minutes, average costs were approximately $680,000. - For a partial data center outage, which averaged 59 minutes in length, average costs were approximately $258,000. 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