"Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

Tue Jan 16 09:14:10 UTC 2024

On 1/15/24 23:11, Martin Hannigan wrote:
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> 
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 4:10 PM Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net 
> <mailto:jay at west.net>> wrote:
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>     On 1/15/24 10:37, Pennington, Scott wrote:
>      > yes but.... it has been -8 in Chicago plenty of times before this.
>      >   Very interested in root cause...
> 
>     Absolutely. My point was that claiming "Global warming" isn't going to
>     fly as an excuse.
> 
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> +1
> 
> Is their design N+1?
> 
> https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/chicago-data-centers/ch1 <https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/chicago-data-centers/ch1>
> 
> We're not smashing temp records in Chicago. At least it doesn't seem so 
> when you look across historical data:
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> https://www.weather.gov/lot/Chicago_Temperature_Records 
> <https://www.weather.gov/lot/Chicago_Temperature_Records>
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -M<

I was at that "hypothetical" location once when it was -17º F ...

No issues then ...

I really have to wonder how six chillers all failed at once.