It should be more widely discussed how annoying it is that “Tier 1” means top notch for 99% of things, but when you’re talking about data centers it’s the opposite
8:05 PM · Jul 1, 2026 · 534 Views
Erik Bernhardsson, Modal Labs founder, highlights the confusing inversion of 'Tier 1' standards in data center classifications
Data centers use Tier 1 for the lowest uptime standard.
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Erik Bernhardsson@bernhardsson
It should be more widely discussed how annoying it is that “Tier 1” means top notch for almost everything except for data centers where it has the opposite meaning
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@bernhardsson it has the opposite meaning for api rate limit tiers too
Erik Bernhardsson@bernhardsson
It should be more widely discussed how annoying it is that “Tier 1” means top notch for almost everything except for data centers where it has the opposite meaning
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Moin Nadeem@moinnadeem
@bernhardsson people should do this for managed AI services
tier 1: no redundancy tier 2: multi-inference provider redundancy tier 3: mutli-cloud redundancy (AWS, GCP) tier 4: multi-AZ redundancy
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