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It happened at GlobalSwitch Clichy, near Paris. From what I gathered from a french forum[1], it started with a flood and then a fire. No rooms have been affecte

• bilekas 3y ago
  I'm getting horrible flashbacks of OVH DC's those many years ago.
  • Jamie9912 3y ago
    THAT was many years ago? Felt like yesterday
    • rpadovani 3y ago
      A bit more than 2 years: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-destroys-ovhclouds-sbg2-data-center-strasbourg/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire-destroys-ovh... I thought it was less than 12 months...
    • bilekas 3y ago
      It does feel like yesterday but yeah was a couple years back !
  • mablopoule 3y ago
    We were impacted at a previous company, luckily we had solid backup, so everything was back online a few hours after. Still, it was kinda fun to go to work and learn that the corporate website literally went up in flames.
  • BonoboIO 3y ago
    What a disaster. A datacenter made out of wood, what could go wrong ...
• alibert 3y ago
  Cooling pump failure lead to water leaking into the UPS room. Batteries caught fire and firefighters can't access the room. Fire is contained although. (this was at ~10-11 am GMT+2 time) Edit: Fire is extinguished (~3pm GMT+2) https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72320.html https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72320.html https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72323.html https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72323.html https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72327.html https://www.mail-archive.com/frnog@frnog.org/msg72327.html
• bandrami 3y ago
  If it's the one in Clichy I'm thinking of it's dug into the embankment that lines a railway basin, so... yeah, floods suck.
  • wut42 3y ago
    It is the Clichy's one. It's not that dug into, where did you get that from? (Used to work there circa 2010). I think the water retention made its way to the battery rooms. No recent floods (nor rain) in Paris (nor most of france) lately.