This does seem crazy to me. I've probably toured 30-40 datacenter facilities in my career, and they ALWAYS have a big red EPO (Emergency Power Off) button at th

This does seem crazy to me. I've probably toured 30-40 datacenter facilities in my career, and they ALWAYS have a big red EPO (Emergency Power Off) button at the major exits to each datahall. I've been in plenty of facilities all over the US, Europe and Japan. (I've also had to deal with the fallout from outages caused by someone accidentally pushing that button. I think they thought it would open the door. Later on those buttons were always covered with a clear plastic housing) Though never in France and everything I've spent time in was a a retail or wholesale provider, eg selling space to other companies. Not something owned and operated by a single company.