Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested

Cloudflare reports a second major power outage at its Portland (PDX01) data center on March 26, 2024, traced to misconfigured breaker coordination settings in Flexential circuit switch boards that triggered a cascading failure; thanks to a months-long “Code Orange” resilience program, most control-plane services failed over automatically within minutes, the global data plane remained unaffected, Analytics experienced delayed restoration, and the facility was cold-started in about 10 hours versus 72 hours previously.