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Tier IV

The top Uptime classification meaning fault tolerant: the facility survives any single failure with no impact.

Current numbers

Tier III / IV outcomesUptime Tier III concurrent-maintainability and Tier IV fault-tolerance outcomes under the standard's defined conditionsas of 2025 · register ↗
~25–40% facilitycapital premium for Tier IV (fault-tolerant) over Tier III (concurrently maintainable)as of 2024-05 · register ↗
~25–40% facilityTier IV capital premium over Tier III for the fault-tolerance step (the two-independent-path guarantee)as of 2024-05 · register ↗

Related terms: Fault tolerance

Where the guide uses this

12.2
The AI-Cluster Reliability Rethink: Goodput vs Facility Availability
12.4
SLAs, Goodput Contracts & Availability Commitments
12.1
Resilience Standards, Redundancy Topologies & Fault-Domain Engineering
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Standards & Specifications Cross-Reference Matrix
10.7
Fleet Reliability, Fault Tolerance & Autonomous Recovery
0.4
The Standards & Specifications Landscape (Living Index)

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