The new Tier 5 standard has recently been introduced by Switch, a major American company that provides “American-style”, i.e. large scale, data center services. The way to present it has been as a direct attack on the jugular of the Uptime Institute, without hot cloths, in what some have called “The War of the Tiers” and it looks as if it will be; not so much because of the repercussions of this standard but because of all the certification alternatives…