Facebook Suffers Actual Cloud In Oregon Datacenter

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 8, 2013 @05:36PM 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.'"

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Re:Obligatory by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · 2013-06-08 17:54 · Score: 4, Informative

Sure, if you think 10.4 inches yearly average is a lot. East side of the state's actually quite arid; the west side is quite soggy in the Coast Range and seaside but the Willamette Valley where most of the population lives isn't exceptionally rainy, it's that it's subject to never-ending spells of overcast weather; other parts of the country actually have higher annual precipitation.