> We live in the digital age, so almost everything depends on data

Agreed, the datacenters need to be extremely durable. What's more durable than proving you're able to withstand a power outage event? The grid does go down from time to time; they need to be ready to handle it. That's not a Texas-only kind of thing; power outages happen all over the US.

If the datacenter can't handle the outage that was announced as a probability ahead of time, they have no business running critical applications.