When the Lights Go Out and Nobody Knows Why
Australia's largest telecommunications provider suffered a major outage that cascaded across train networks and emergency call services, with data centres in both Sydney and Melbourne implicated, according to BBC News reporting on the incident. As of the time of writing, the root cause remains unknown — which, if anything, is the more alarming detail.
This is not a story about one company having a bad day. It is a story about how critical infrastructure is being quietly assembled in ways that create catastrophic single points of failure, and how many boards will not discover that until the moment their operations go dark.