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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.'"

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  1. Obligitory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And nothing of value was lost.

    1. 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.

  2. Where are the Pics? by anthony_greer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I dont se any pics in the linked article, Someone has to have pictures of this if it happened...

    1. Re:Where are the Pics? by anthony_greer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      saw that and I think the issue is that the sudden humidity change caused condensation, not terribly uncommon if prompt action isnt taken upon AC failure in a humid climate...I don't see a "Cloud in the room"

      Hype to sell newspapers...and link bait...

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

    Welcome to Oregon, it rains a lot.

    1. Re:Obligatory by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · · 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.

  4. Maybe Berndnaut Smilde snuck in: by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/artist-creates-beautiful-indoor-clouds

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

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

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

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