# Power cuts across the UK - could Ripe Atlas map these?

**URL:** https://forum.ripe.net/t/power-cuts-across-the-uk-could-ripe-atlas-map-these/1548
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**Created:** [10 October 2025 15:33 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/power-cuts-across-the-uk-could-ripe-atlas-map-these/1548 "2025-10-10T15:33:19Z")
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### Author: ![Daksol](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.ripe.net/daksol/32/680_2.png) [@Daksol](https://forum.ripe.net/u/Daksol)
#### Post date: [10 October 2025 15:33 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/power-cuts-across-the-uk-could-ripe-atlas-map-these/1548/1 "2025-10-10T15:33:19Z")

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For last couple of weeks there have been a bunch of power cuts across the UK - which are pretty rare for most of the UK for the last decade or two.

At a guess, a lot of Ripe Atlas probes (and/or the broad band routers (& co) they depend on) are not backed by a UPS. Even those with a UPS would be unlikely to last 6 hours - as per outage on Southampton today.

Fascinating to see if Ripe Atlas probe data could be harnessed to map these outages.

Slightly off topic wrt the project’s core purpose - but its resilience is an accessible proxy for that of wider infrastructure.

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### Author: ![robertk](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.ripe.net/robertk/32/413_2.png) [@robertk](https://forum.ripe.net/u/robertk)
#### Post date: [13 October 2025 08:37 UTC](https://forum.ripe.net/t/power-cuts-across-the-uk-could-ripe-atlas-map-these/1548/2 "2025-10-13T08:37:53Z")

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Hi, we can produce such visualisations to see if they are meaningful for this case. What would help here is if there was an (approximate) list of times+locations about where/when outages happened.