> On Mar 11, 2021, at 10:41 AM, Sean Donelan <[email protected]> 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.
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