INFRASTRUCTURE
Condition-based maintenance delivers measurable operational outcomes The paper’ s most concrete claims concern outcomes already reported by early adopters. Compass Datacenters has recorded a 40 % reduction in manual interventions and an estimated 20 % reduction in OPEX compared with what it would have spent under calendar-based maintenance, according to Sudhir.
According to the paper’ s findings, unplanned downtime across the broader market can fall by up to 75 % where fault trajectories are detected weeks ahead of failure, allowing emergency shutdowns to become planned interventions with spare parts and expert teams pre-positioned.
Asset lifecycle extension features prominently too. " A UPS, for example, will typically last 15 years or so, but we think, because we’ re doing optimised maintenance on our UPS systems, we can extend the life to 20 years, maybe even 25 years," Sudhir says. " That means delaying our refresh investments by a decade."
" Condition-Based Maintenance is an optimised operating model for AI-era infrastructure that reduces manual interventions, lowers OpEx and extends asset lifecycle," Luis adds. " By scaling predictive analytics to correlate behaviour across every vendor, asset and failure trajectory, CBM enables operators to build machine-driven, human-validated system intelligence."
138 September 2026