Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 🔥

[Andy Ringsmuth <andy () andyring com>]

> On Mar 11, 2021, at 10:41 AM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Obligatory:

https://xkcd.com/908/



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