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Facebook Suffers Actual Cloud In Oregon Datacenter

Posted by timothy on from the but-the-cloud-is-the-computer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Register carries the funniest, most topical IT story of the year: 'Facebook's first data center ran into problems of a distinctly ironic nature when a literal cloud formed in the IT room and started to rain on servers. Though Facebook has previously hinted at this via references to a 'humidity event' within its first data center in Prineville, Oregon, the social network's infrastructure king Jay Parikh told The Reg on Thursday that, for a few minutes in Summer, 2011, Facebook's data center contained two clouds: one powered the social network, the other poured water on it.'"

5 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. Obligatory by identity0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome to Oregon, it rains a lot.

  2. Streamed Hams by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Superintendant Chalmers: A rain storm? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your datacentre?

  3. Re:Obligitory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And nothing of value was lost.

    Various US intelligence agencies and their chums in other countries beg to differ.

  4. It's clouds by rastos1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's clouds all the way ... up?

  5. Load balancing by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Funny

    Both clouds were leaking and pissing off users. Facebook must have real sysadmins.