Re: Effects of Cold Front on Internet Infrastructure - U.S. Midwest

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

Well said. The electrical load shifts, hydraulic systems, airflows
constrained by ice cover, etc, etc, etc. All kinds of things being asked to
do stuff outside or at the edge of specifications.

Hug your local facilities guys when these things happen. (Or bring them
booze.)

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:58 PM Naslund, Steve <SNaslund () medline com>
wrote:

> > And apparently fire. I wasn’t going to chime in but one of my >providers
> *just* alerted us to an electrical fire in a Minneapolis pop >causing
> loads to failover to ups. Unknown whether weather >conditions contributed
> to the incident.
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> Yes, in Chicago we will see an increase in home fires because heating
> systems are being pushed to their limits and people tend to do stupid
> things like run unattended space heaters and try to thaw frozen stuff in
> crazy ways.  In a datacenter you might be pushing electrical loads while
> external electrical components are stressed with temperature.  I have seen
> transformer fires caused by the oil inside not circulating correctly.  You
> end up with hot and cold zones in them.
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> Steven Naslund
>
> Chicago IL