Exclusive Airbus is overhauling its datacenter contingency plans after a ten-hour power outage across Spain and Portugal in April nearly forced a complete production shutdown.

The blackout – one of the worst in Iberian history – was triggered by voltage surges that overwhelmed the electrical grid. It knocked out traffic lights, forced metro evacuations, and impacted Airbus's primary Spanish datacenter in Madrid, part of its Campus Futura aerospace and defense hub.

Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline

"We thought we were ready for an electrical issue, and in fact we were not," Catherine Jestin, Airbus Executive Vice President of Digital, told The Register .

Despite backup generators, Airbus faced a critical fuel shortage. The company scrambled to order more diesel, but

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