"Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

Thu Jan 18 17:03:07 UTC 2024

On 1/15/24 10:14, sronan at ronan-online.com wrote:
> I’m more interested in how you lose six chillers all at once.
>
According to a post on a support forum for one of the clients in that 
space: "We understand the issue is due to snow on the roof affecting the 
cooling equipment."

Never overlook the simplest single points of failure.  Snow on cooling 
tower fan blades....failed fan motors are possible or even likely at 
that point.  Assuming the airflow won't be clogged; conceptually much 
like the issue in having multiple providers for redundancy but they're 
all in the same cable or conduit.