infrastructure strain

Language: en

📖 Definitions

  1. Excessive pressure or demand placed on physical systems such as roads, power grids, or water supplies that exceeds their designed capacity.; High demand on computing resources, network bandwidth, or server capacity leading to performance degradation or outages.

💬 Examples

  1. The recent heatwave caused severe infrastructure strain on the national power grid.

  2. Unexpected user traffic led to critical infrastructure strain on the company's cloud servers.