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| reply to phoneboy3
Re: What about backup generators
said by phoneboy3 :
Don't they have backup generators like any REAL data center should? If not then they should definitely be apologizing.
The do, but some things are beyond their control...
"In the second incident at approximately 6:30 PM CST Monday, a vehicle struck and brought down the transformer feeding power to the DFW data center. It immediately disrupted power to the entire data center and our emergency generators kicked in and operated as intended. When we transferred power to our secondary utility power system, the data center's chilling units were cycled back up. At this time, however, the utility provider shut down power in order to allow emergency rescue teams safe access to the accident victim. This repeated cycling of the chillers resulted in increasing temperatures within the data center. As a precautionary measure we decided to take some customers' servers offline. These servers are now back up, as are the chillers." |
