AW: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 🔥

["Gunther Stammwitz" <gstammw () gmx net>]

According to these pictures a similar part of the datacenter (SBX4) was built with wood.
https://twitter.com/MedecineLibre/status/1369618937063817219
Ceilings at least. Walls?

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Von: NANOG Im Auftrag von Andy Ringsmuth
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. März 2021 16:42
An: nanog () nanog org
Betreff: Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 🔥


> On Mar 10, 2021, at 3:23 AM, Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler () init7 net> wrote:
>
> Very sad day for our colleagues at OVH AS16276 as they lost their 
> datacenter SBG-2 in Strasbourg/France completly („everything is 
> destroyed“) in a fire 🔥 and the neighboring SBG1/SBG3/SBG4 at least temporary.
>
> https://www.dna.fr/amp/faits-divers-justice/2021/03/10/strasbourg-impo
> rtant-incendie-dans-une-entreprise-situee-sur-un-site-seveso-au-port-d
> u-rhin

Sad to see of course, but also a little surprising that fire suppression systems didn’t, well, suppress the fire.

Unless they didn’t exist?


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