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[INNOG] Re: OVH Strasbourg datacenter fire
10 Mar
2021
11:40 a.m.
Hi
The problem here is that this isn't a proper datacenter but just a bunch of adapted containers stacked on each other.
On top of that they use exotic cooling stuff, such as free cooling (wind tunnels) and water cooling on servers...
https://images.google.com/search?q=ovh+water+cooling (see images)
In anyways, they are in fact innovative, but i also believe that most users didn't knew exactly what they were buying... and one shouldn't compare apples with pineapples :-)
We should be happy that there were no human injuries. About the data/losses/etc, WYGIWYP applies (what you get is what you pay). I am sure they are pretty much protected by their T&C's (that no one reads).
cheers
/nuno
On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 16:45 +0530, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
Photos coming out look scary - https://twitter.com/hapticmusing/status/1369601127520464897Not sure when the Internet community saw the case of such a massive fire which destroyed the whole datacenter.Have heard of minor cases here in the past and there & were mostly contained to few racks/DC rooms etc. Based on datacenters I have seen - pretty much all of them have those big fancy fire doors to contain fire in a give "DC room". Gotta see what report comes out eventually about the engineering failure.