Mar 24, 2022 09:00:00

Data center with 3.6 million sites dropped The cause of the spread of fire damage is lack of equipment

A data center fire in France on March 10, 2021 is estimated to have brought down 3.6 million sites and caused damage such as the loss of user data in some games. After about a year of investigation, the local fire department reports the results of the investigation into the cause of the spread of fire damage.

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OVHcloud fire report: SBG2 data center had wooden ceilings, no extinguisher, and no power cut-out --DCD
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ovhcloud-fire-report-sbg2-data-center-had-wooden-ceilings-no-extinguisher-and-no-power-cut-out/

The fire broke out at the data center 'SBG2' in Strasbourg of the French-based cloud computing service ' OVHcloud '.

The fire broke out around 0:40. According to the report, an

arc of 1 meter or more was generated around the door, limiting the activities of firefighters. A team of electric power companies arrived at 1:20, but the power outage was finally successful at 3:28, about 3 hours after the fire broke out, because there was no device to shut off general electricity. It seems that it was.

The report also addresses other issues, such as the lack of an automatic fire extinguishing system at the site and the wooden ceiling.

He also mentioned structural defects in the building. SBG2 adopted an air-cooled structure that takes in air from the outer circumference of the building and discharges it to the courtyard.

It is possible that the spread of fire was accelerated by this structure functioning as a 'chimney'.

In response to an inquiry from the news site ' Data Center Dynamics ', OVHcloud responded that 'We are cooperating with insurance companies and government agencies for a formal investigation report, so we can not respond in detail to this report.' .. At the same time, he pointed out that this report was not by a data center expert.

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Data center fire that dropped 3.6 million sites may be caused by water leak --GIGAZINE