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Data Center Power Failures Mount

Posted by timothy on from the send-money-drugs-and-sealed-lead-acid-batteries dept.

1sockchuck writes "It was a bad week to be a piece of electrical equipment inside a major data center. There have been five major incidents in the past week in which generator or UPS failures have caused data center power outages that left customers offline. Generators were apparently the culprit in a Rackspace outage in Dallas and a fire at Fisher Plaza in Seattle (which disrupted e-commerce Friday), while UPS units were cited in brief outages at Equinix data centers in Sydney and Paris on Thursday and a fire at 151 Front Street in Toronto early Sunday. Google App Engine also had a lengthy outage Thursday, but it was attributed to a data store failure."

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  1. If only you had listened... by BillyMays · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm guessing that the majority of these were caused by leaks or spilled drinks. If only you guys had listened to me and gotten Zorbeez(tm)[SOAKS UP 10x ITS OWN WEIGHT!].

    -B. Mays

  2. Re:"bad week to be a piece of electrical equipment by Statecraftsman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, that's clearly Twitter territory.

  3. Damn you Michael Bay! by StaticEngine · · Score: 4, Funny

    "A blown transformer appears to be the culprit"

    I'd heard the new movie was crude, but I didn't realize how crude it actually was!

  4. Re:"bad week to be a piece of electrical equipment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed, 18465. And we shall get off your lawn as well.

  5. Re:Be Redundant! by Firehed · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the event of a nuclear attack, you probably have more pressing issues to deal with than your server uptime.

    --
    How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
  6. Re:XO Communications Genesis Hosting by socsoc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure, I heard that Genesis Hosting suffered an outage from their ISP; XO Communications in Chicago.

  7. it was my fault by bgd73 · · Score: 1, Funny

    my pc. it is 3400mhz and all the data center host sites of my interest. for the first time in 21020 hours of perfect runtime the ups saved it in a series of northeast thunderstorms coniciding with the outages around the globe. the permeating physics were too much for the world, reverberating to an unintentional master of perfect float, hardly busy, waiting to send a message. Believe it or not.