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Lightning Strike KOs Amazon, Microsoft EuroClouds

Posted by timothy on from the this-basket-of-eggs-is-highly-conductive dept.

1sockchuck writes "A lightning strike has caused power outages at the major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland. The incident has caused downtime for many sites using Amazon's EC2 cloud computing platform and Microsoft's BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite)."

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  1. Re:My Sympathies by kent_eh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been in the same spot. (10KW, 3 tower array). It's amazing how far the parts of a capacitor on a P&M panel can spread when propelled by a lightning strike.
    Even with ball gaps, chokes, and all the other effort, ultimately the transmitter has to be connected to the tower. 50 ohms is not that much different than "the shortest path to ground" when you put a few thousand KV against it.

    It took several years after my career change to enjoy the spectacle of a lightning storm

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