OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire ????

Enno Rey erey at ernw.de
Thu Mar 11 17:10:11 UTC 2021


Statement (in French) from Octave Klaba, containing some discussion of the development of the fire (starts at ~ 4:30):

https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/index-fr.html




On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:57:00AM -0600, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
> 
> > On Mar 11, 2021, at 10:41 AM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
> > 
> > If you pump 100s of megawatts of energy into a confined space (i.e. a large data center), and there is an uncontrolled release of that energy (i.e. a fire), that's a lot of energy which is going to go somewhere.
> > Stored energy, batteries, backup fuel for generators, server plastic, etc.
> > There is a lot of stuff that can burn in a data center, especially if you start over-stuffing it.
> > 
> > China has the top 7 data centers over 100 megawatts.
> > 
> > http://worldstopdatacenters.com/power/
> > 
> > Ok, an ISP may not have a mega datacenter.  Even "small" data centers have a large fuel load. They are major industrial operations.  Like other major industrial fires, often the firefighter response is to rescue any trapped people and then contain the fire until it burns itself out.
> > 
> > The "cloud" is just someone else's physical data center.
> 
> Obligatory:
> 
> https://xkcd.com/908/
> 
> 
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