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recent AWS Frankfurt event when the datacenter was flooded with gas to push oxygen out seems to make a good use case for the robots there.

• contingencies 5y ago
  Why did they do that? Are they trying to kill sleeping sysadmins, vaguely threaten intruders, did they have a rat problem, or what? Seems ... inexplicable without the involvement of bureaucrats.
  • trhway 5y ago
    it was a fire scare. AC failure (some control mistake) -> rise of temp -> some hardware started to smoke.
    • contingencies 5y ago
      Aha. I wonder what that costs each time it triggers.
      • SilverRed 5y ago
        Presumably less than the value of the building and server racks.
  • kjs3 5y ago
    See: Halon fire extinguisher