diff --git a/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md b/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
index ed4a2667a59..5011d10ae81 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.unreleased.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 > Users must be able to say: “I had this issue, happy to know it's fixed”
 
 - Fix SR tags not being listed in tag selectors (PR [#8251](https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/8251))
+- [Plugins/usage-report] Prevent the report creation from failing over and over when previous stats file is empty or incorrect (PR [#8240](https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/8240))
 - [Backups/Logs] Display mirror backup transfer size (PR [#8224](https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/8224))
 - [Settings/Remotes] Only allow using encryption when using data block storage to prevent errors during backups (PR [#8244](https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/8244))
 
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@
 - @xen-orchestra/web minor
 - @xen-orchestra/web-core minor
 - xo-server patch
+- xo-server-usage-report patch
 - xo-web patch
 
 <!--packages-end-->
diff --git a/packages/xo-server-usage-report/src/index.js b/packages/xo-server-usage-report/src/index.js
index e96720a6221..d8b3818c52c 100644
--- a/packages/xo-server-usage-report/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/xo-server-usage-report/src/index.js
@@ -546,7 +546,14 @@ async function storeStats({ data, storedStatsPath }) {
 
 async function computeEvolution({ storedStatsPath, ...newStats }) {
   try {
-    const oldStats = JSON.parse(await pReadFile(storedStatsPath, 'utf8'))
+    const fileContent = await pReadFile(storedStatsPath, 'utf8')
+    let oldStats
+    try {
+      oldStats = JSON.parse(fileContent)
+    } catch {
+      log.warn('Invalid or empty json stats file')
+      return
+    }
     const newStatsVms = newStats.vms
     const oldStatsVms = oldStats.global.vms
     const newStatsHosts = newStats.hosts