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Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:41:00 -0500 (EST)
If you pump 100s of megawatts of energy into a confined space (i.e. a large data center), and there is an uncontrolled release of that energy (i.e. a fire), that's a lot of energy which is going to go somewhere.
Stored energy, batteries, backup fuel for generators, server plastic, etc.There is a lot of stuff that can burn in a data center, especially if you start over-stuffing it.
China has the top 7 data centers over 100 megawatts. http://worldstopdatacenters.com/power/Ok, an ISP may not have a mega datacenter. Even "small" data centers have a large fuel load. They are major industrial operations. Like other major industrial fires, often the firefighter response is to rescue any trapped people and then contain the fire until it burns itself out.
The "cloud" is just someone else's physical data center. 1975 AT&T New York City fire, documentary how it recovered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_AWAmGi-g8
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- Re: AW: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯, (continued)
- Re: AW: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Jeff Shultz (Mar 10)
- Re: AW: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ TΓΆma Gavrichenkov (Mar 10)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ George Herbert (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Rod Beck (Mar 11)
- Re: Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ bzs (Mar 11)
- Re: Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Sean Donelan (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Daniel Karrenberg (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Matt Harris (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Dale W. Carder (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Christopher Morrow (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Sean Donelan (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire π₯ Andy Ringsmuth (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Enno Rey (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Lukas Tribus (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Randy Bush (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Gavin Henry (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Rod Beck (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Johann (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Rod Beck (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Randy Bush (Mar 11)
- Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ???? Chris Cariffe (Mar 11)