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Comment by kryogen1c

4 hours ago

> Data center science has... well improved since the earlier days

You say that, but...

> There was one day we knocked out windows and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire

This happened to Equinix's CH1 datacenter in Chicago Jan24 (not the literal fire part). Took down Azure ExpressRoute.

Apparently it got too cold and the CRACs couldn't take it? I'm told they had all the doors and windows open trying to keep things cold enough, but alas. As the CRAC goes, so goes the servers