OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 🔥

Daniel Karrenberg dfk at ripe.net
Thu Mar 11 10:46:10 UTC 2021



On 10 Mar 2021, at 16:42, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:

> Sad to see of course, but also a little surprising that fire 
> suppression systems didn’t, well, suppress the fire.

Maybe the innovative ‘green’ design had something to do with the 
rapid spread of the fire and the way fire suppression was engineered:

https://us.ovhcloud.com/about/company/green-tech

Further I conjecture that a halon system would not be feasible in such a 
structure.

Daniel


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