Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam

miller60 writes "Torrential rains last week in Istanbul led to a flood that overwhelmed a data center for Vodafone. The event was captured on the data center security cameras, which shows waters rising and then raging through the security area before flooding the raised-floor equipment area."

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[BountyX]

I respectfully disagree. This is not a case and their data center was NOT on flood plains. That area of Istanbul is NOT prone to flooding. Furthermore, it was the heaviest rainfall in the last 8 decades. That section of Istanbul is even on top of an elevated slope (compared to the rest of the city). This is primarily a case of outdated infrastructure throughout the city. Istanbul is one of the oldest cities in the world. They still have roman-built brick elevated roads they rely on for water draining. Upgrade the infrastructure you say? Ha, good luck upgrading a massive city of 12 million, three times the size of chicago and ranked the 5th largest city proper in the world. I'm sure the government can afford to replace the massively ancient city infrastructure /sarcasm. I think the real stupidity here was placing the data center one the first story of a building (and in an earthquake zone). Not the same as you make it sound...