Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ????

[Enno Rey <erey () ernw de>]

Statement (in French) from Octave Klaba, containing some discussion of the development of the fire (starts at ~ 4:30):

https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/index-fr.html




On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:57:00AM -0600, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
> > 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:
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> https://xkcd.com/908/
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